Let's suppose that you really like the Cinnamon graphical shell. Really, how could you not like it? But the makers, the Cinnamon team, as well as their forum and so-called community, have not added any positivity to your life. So, let's consider a worthy alternative.
Immediately after installing Ubuntu Cinnamon, we kick out the spyware junk from Canonical. Open the terminal emulator window and copy the command there:
sudo apt remove whoopsie apport kerneloops unattended-upgrades rsyslog update-manager update-notifier && sudo apt autoremove
You can paste what you have copied with the vintage Shift + Insert key combination. Or you can use the right-click menu.
The next step is to make visible the list of applications automatically launched at the beginning of each session. The gibberish to be fed to the terminal looks like this:
sudo sed -i "s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g" /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop
Now you can open the Startup Applications programme and thin the list in order to make the system work easier and, consequently, to save laptop battery power.
Now it's time to deal with the codecs. Since this is Ubuntu, in the terminal emulator run this command:
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
To agree with the licence agreement, we move to the small OK button with the Tab key. And then press Enter, of course.
After all these actions it is desirable to restart the session for the changes to take effect. That is, log out and immediately log in. And continue making settings, but not system-wide, but personal ones.
Keyboard Layout: System Settngs — Keyboard — Layouts — click the plus sign at the bottom left to add a language. The key combination for switching the layout is Options - Switching to another layout. The indicator on the taskbar should appear by itself. The on-screen keyboard is also available.
Nemo File Manager — Edit — Peferences — Behaviour — Media handling — uncheck all the boxes so that the desktop is not littered with unnecessary notifications when connecting various external devices like a phone.
Everyone can be tired and inattentive, so if by the developer's negligence pictures are opened in the wrong way, right click on the file with the image - in the properties look for the Open with section, choose the right programme - click Set as default.
To install Firewall, let's open the terminal and: sudo apt install gufw Find Firewall, launch and activate with the Status switch.Not everyone likes Gnome Videos (formerly known as Totem). Someone can't stand this crooked product. So, we use the above method to set the default audio and video opening in something else, like Celluloid.
Tiling of windows (Tiling) in Cinnamon works clearly, it is done with Windows key (Super) + left-right arrows.
Ubuntu has a bad habit of writing Greenwich time to your computer's hardware as soon as you connect it to the internet. If you reboot to Windows on the same device, you will have to manually reset the clock back there. And every time, after every session. Let's prevent such unpleasant behaviour of the system:
sudo systemctl stop systemd-timesyncd && sudo systemctl mask --global systemd-timesyncd
This will be in effect during the whole Live session, so you can connect to the Internet safely. And how could we do it otherwise, we need to check if Wi-Fi is working.
Let's take only the version with long term support, labelled as LTS. And the one that was released around the year of the computer's production. Or a little later. Then there will be a suitable Linux kernel with good drivers.
Since there is a normal UEFI support, to create a bootable USB stick, simply format it to FAT32 and copy the contents of the ISO image.