Debian-Based Server Setup

Debian 12 with Desktop

Run update and upgrade distro first. Install NTP package is there are errors with that. Reboot

Setup powertop and powersaving features

apt install powertop
powertop --auto-tune

Powersave governor and at reboot. Remember to run the command again

@reboot echo "powersave" | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor >/dev/null 2>&1

Ensure these packages are installed

powertop htop ctop iotop fio curl gnupg wget ntfs-3g neofetch ca-certificates lsb-release hdparm

HDD

lsblk and blkid to get the ntfs hard drive /dev name and the /dev/by-uuid/...

 

Edit the fstab to mount the drive