Some App Installation and Hard Drive Mounting Basics

Installing Snap

Think it's just sudo apt install snapd.

Know that, sometimes in order to update applications that you install via Snap need to be updated with a command like snap refresh or snap refresh <app_name>. Run snap refresh --help for more information.

Generic upgrade line

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade is a good way to upgrade everything. Can do sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y to auto-accept upgrades.

How to install from an AppImage if it's not going easily

This tutorial instructs to right-click the download appimage file, go to "Properties" > "Permissions" and then check "Allow executing file as program". Alternatively chmod u+x <AppImage File> to make it executable.

How to mount an external hard drive that's formatted as exFAT

Simply install these programs by running this line: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils (via).

Desktop files

The Arch Wiki has an entry on desktop entries, which notes

Desktop entries for applications, or .desktop files, are generally a combination of meta information resources and a shortcut of an application. These files usually reside in /usr/share/applications/ or /usr/local/share/applications/ for applications installed system-wide, or ~/.local/share/applications/ for user-specific applications. User entries take precedence over system entries.

Desktop file example

At ~/.local/share/applications/standard-notes.desktop paste the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=StandardNotes
Exec=/home/$USER/standard-notes/standard-notes-*-x86_64.AppImage 
Icon=/home/$USER/standard-notes/standard-notes.png
Terminal=false
Categories=Office;Notes;

See the page on Standard Notes for more.