The last laptop I owned was a Dell Inspiron 5520, which I purchased in 2012 for 42k. It was not a great machine by any means but it served me well until one day when it just wouldn’t boot. I sold it for ₹ 3500 and decided to buy a new laptop.

After some searching, I settled for the Inspiron 7560. I bought it for 80k a few days ago and this post details how I’m setting it up.

The first thing I did after bringing the laptop home was remove the hideous Dell & Intel i7 stickers.

7560 comes with an SSHD setup: 1 TB HDD + 128 GB SSD. Windows 10 is installed on the SSD while the HDD is empty.

When re-installing manjaro, I did not delete my old /home/ folder - as it had all my configuration.

I have a disk setup like:

Setting up a new system commands

Manjaro tweaks

  • Touchpad
    • Symptoms
      • Some of the settings in Touchpad configuration were disabled before
      • Double click was not working in some GTK applications
        • Sublime etc.
    • Cure
      • Install synaptics driver
      • xorg config
      • Now use the Touchpad settings to set it how you like it

Issues

  • Broken pip
    • Symptoms
      • Running pip was giving this error:
        Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pip", line 11, in <module>
      load_entry_point('pip==10.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 476, in load_entry_point
      return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2700, in load_entry_point
      return ep.load()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2318, in load
      return self.resolve()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in resolve
      module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 42, in <module>
      from pip._internal import cmdoptions
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/cmdoptions.py", line 16, in <module>
      from pip._internal.index import (
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/index.py", line 25, in <module>
      from pip._internal.download import HAS_TLS, is_url, path_to_url, url_to_path
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/download.py", line 48, in <module>
      from pip._internal.utils.ui import DownloadProgressProvider
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/ui.py", line 11, in <module>
      from pip._vendor.progress.bar import (
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._vendor.progress.bar'; 'pip._vendor.progress' is not a package
      • sudo pip was working just fine.
      • I don’t really know why
      • Copied my libs from older installation: ~/.local/lib/python*