Here's my recipe for getting native Apache2 running as a dev enviromnent for Drupal on Ubuntu.  This includes Drupal 8 development.  

Apache2

First install Apache2:

sudo apt-get install apache2

Test by visiting: 

http://localhost

You will get an error each time you start the server unless you define the servername in the apache2.conf file:

ServerName localhost

Once things are running, enable mod rewrite:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Now we add an override to use .htaccess files:

Here's a PPA that installs the latest version of Nemo file manager.  This is decoupled from Cinnamon, and can be added to any flavor of Ubuntu, in my case Xubuntu

https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/nemo?field.series_filter=trusty

Install it with this command:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/nemo

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Here's a ppa with the latest version of GIT. 

https://launchpad.net/~pdoes/+archive/ppa

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pdoes/ppa

sudo -apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo install git

Now that GIT is installed, install Git Flow

sudo apt-get install git-flow