diff --git a/scripts/apt-install-basics.sh b/scripts/apt-install-basics.sh
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+# this installs tools which I would say are alrounders on all systems
+apt install bleachbit nano xrdp htop bash-completion dialog powertop tree tmux
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diff --git a/scripts/apt-update.sh b/scripts/apt-update.sh
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+apt update
+apt upgrade
+apt dist-upgrade
+apt autoremove
+apt autoclean
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diff --git a/scripts/top-used-commands.sh b/scripts/top-used-commands.sh
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+history | awk '{$1=""}1' | awk '{$1=$1}1' | sort | uniq -c | sort -bgr | more
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diff --git a/scripts/update-all-docker-images.sh b/scripts/update-all-docker-images.sh
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+docker images --format "{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}" | xargs -L1 docker pull
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diff --git a/scripts/wsl-free-mem.sh b/scripts/wsl-free-mem.sh
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+# WSL2 Linux Module to free up caches and compact memory
+# See Microsoft Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/memory-reclaim-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2/)
+# needs to run as root (sudo doesn't work)
+
+echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
+echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory