This is mostly just how I setup some things. It's just to be used as a “check list” or “recommendations”.

PRO-TIP: You can dim your screen lower than your hotkeys allow you on most laptops! Hit Super once, type bri and hit Enter (= opens “Brightness & Lock”). And adjust it in there, be careful not to turn off your backlit completely! As I've noticed on my ThinkPad T450s I can't adjust it if is on the lock screen.

Before first login (but at login screen after installation - fixes a rare bug, that I always encounter..better be safe than sorry):

1. CTRL+ALT+F2 (get into a tty)
2. Login
3. sudo apt-get update
4. sudo apt-get upgrade -y
5. sudo reboot

Not sure where the problem rely, but if you want wireless-ac speeds. You need to not have your SSID available on the 2.4GHz band.
Ubuntu loves to scan & connect on the 2.4GHz band, before the 5GHz band. Even though you marked 5GHz to be prefered! Might just be my Intel 7265 that are the problem ;) But worth knowing in case you get speed problems.

If it's a laptop, you should install TLP

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw

If it's a REAL ThinkPad, you might want to consider installing these aswell: tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms

If you get scrambled text sometimes upon return from sleep (Lenovo Thinkpad T450s is mostly affected by this). Boot with these kernel options:

acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode

Preferred software:

sudo apt-get install powertop screen irssi clementine gpicview mpv 

• Appearance > Look > Launcher icon size: 32
• Appearance > Behavior > Auto-hide the Launcher: ON
• Appearance > Behavior > Show the menus for a windows: In the window's title bar
• Brightness & Lock > Lock screen after: 3 minutes
• Security & Privacy > Files & Applications > OFF & Uncheck everything!
• Security & Privacy > Search > Include online search results: OFF
• Security & Privacy > Diagnostics > Uncheck Send error reports to Canonical
• Keyboard > Shortcuts > Sound and Media > Play (or play/pause): Shift+Alt+Up
• Keyboard > Shortcuts > Sound and Media > Previous track: Shift+Alt+Left
• Keyboard > Shortcuts > Sound and Media > Next track: Shift+Alt+Right
• Mouse & Touchpad > Touchpad > Check Natural scrolling
• Power > Suspend when invactive for > On battery power: 30 minutes
• Time & Date > Clock > Check Weekday
• Time & Date > Clock > Select 24-hour time
• Time & Date > Clock > Check Seconds

Edit > Profile Preferences

• General
  1. Uncheck Use the system fixed width font
  2. Change font size to 10
  3. Check use custom default terminal size
  4. 180cols x 40 rows
• Colors
  1. Uncheck use colors from system theme
  2. Built-in schemes: White on black
• Background
  1. Transparent background at around 90%
• Scrolling
  1. Check Unlimited

Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts

• Uncheck Enable menu access keys (such as Alt+F to open the File menu)
• Uncheck Enable the menu shortkut key (F10 by default)

Edit > Preferences

• Preview > Show thumbnails: Always

• Check Show time in Menu bar
• Check Show Percentage in Menu bar

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