17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 14.04

1) Always show menus:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity always-show-menus true

2) Install Privacy Indicator:
"The goal of Privacy Indicator is to make it easy it change settings that influence the user’s privacy or the automatic collection of data and to delete automatically collected data."
http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/indicator-privacy/
or
http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/indicator-privacy/dist/indicator-privacy_0.05_all.deb

3) Install Unity Folders:
"Easy way to organize your apps, files, folders, chrome web apps, links and shell scripts. Tested on Ubuntu 14.04"
http://unity-folders.exceptionfound.com/
or
http://unity-folders.exceptionfound.com/unity-launcher-folders_1.0.3_all.deb

4) Install System Load Indicator:
"A system load monitor capable of displaying graphs for CPU, ram, and swap space use, plus network traffic."
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/indicator-multiload/

5) Install Laptop Mode Tools (if applicable):
"Laptop mode is a Linux kernel feature that allows your laptop to save considerable power, by allowing the hard drive to spin down for longer periods of time."
sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

6) Install Bleachbit:
"Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk."
sudo apt-get install bleachbit

7) Install codecs and enable DVD playback:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gxine libdvdread4 icedax tagtool easytag id3tool lame nautilus-script-audio-convert libmad0 mpg321 gstreamer1.0-libav

8) Enable playing encrypted DVDs:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/./install-css.sh

9) Install Flash plugin on browser:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

10) Install Preload:
"Speeds up application load time by monitoring the software that is loaded and used day to day, the software used most often, and cache them in memory."
sudo apt-get install preload

11) Swappiness:
"Swappiness is a Linux kernel parameter that controls the relative weight given to swapping out runtime memory."
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

Add the following lines:
#Use workable swap level
vm.swappiness=10

#Improve cache management
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

12) Re-enable Ctl-Alt-Backspace:
sudo gedit /etc/default/keyboard

Replace XKBOPTIONS="" with this line:
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

13) Block connections to Ubuntu's Ad server
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -d 91.189.92.11 -j DROP

14) Install extra archive utilities:
sudo apt-get install p7zip-rar p7zip-full unace unrar zip unzip sharutils rar uudeview mpack arj cabextract file-roller

15) Install GNOME Music player:
sudo apt-get install gnome-music

16) Install rkhunter and chkrootkit:
sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkit

Run and update rkhunter using the following commands:
sudo rkhunter --update
sudo rkhunter -c -l Desktop/rkhunterlog.txt

Run chkrootkit by simply running:
sudo chkrootkit

17) Install Aptik:
"Aptik is an open source package that simplify backup and restore of PPAs, Applications and Packages after a fresh installation or upgradation of Debian based Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Ubuntu derivatives."
http://www.teejeetech.in/
or
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67740416/linux/aptik-latest-i386.deb?dl=1