My Fedora Linux Setup

Im Currently running the Fedora 37 i3-spin on my T480 Thinkpad. I landed on Fedora after trying multiple different distros. I have tried many of the popular distros, Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, Acrh, Void. I used Debian the longest because the thing I value the most is that the distro just works. Then I started to have problems with Debian and moved to Fedora i3 spin.

Inspired by David Haras’s Gitlab repo.

Installation guide for Fedora.

The official intructions can be found here

Things to do after the installation.

Configuring DNF:

At /etc/dnf/dnf.conf you find the configuration file for DNF where we want to add the following lines.

• fastestmirror=True

  • During the next update it will seek for the fastest mirror.

• max_parallel_donwloads=10, I chose 5 packages

  • Defaults to 3. Maximum of 20.
  • Maximum number of simultaneous package downloads.
  • Depends on your network speed. 10 fits well with gigabit speed. If your have slower try 5.

• defaultyes=True

  • Download confirmation will be yes by default.
    

• keepcache=True

  • Caches downloaded packages.
  • Future references will be faster.
  • If cache size is a concern. Use sudo dnf clean all to clean the cache.

Now update the system for changes to take place

Enabling RPM Fusion

RPM Fusion will add more packages to DNF that are free as well as nonfree. Such as proprietary drivers or media codecs.

To download RPM Fusion: sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Additionally if you will be using a graphical package manager. Install appstream-data with sudo dnf groupupdate core

Congratulations now you have a well functioning Fedora system!

Below is a list of stuff that use the most on my computer.

Stuff I Use

• Ranger, terminal filemanager
• Feh, Image viever
• Zathura, pdf viewer
• Neovim, text editor
• Tlp, laptop battery saver
• Lxappearance, appearance manager
• Pcmanfm, filemanager
• Kitty, terminal emulator
• Xarchiver, archiving tool
• Speedchrunch, calculator
• Transmission, torrent client
• Firefox, browser
• i3-gaps, i3 wm with gaps
• arandr, display manager
• arc-theme, nice looking dark GTK3 theme
• pandoc, file converter
• Latex, typesetting system
• Github, online code repository with git
• Git, version control
• Rofi, app launcher

Installing all of this

sudo dnf install ranger feh zathura zathura-pdf-mupdf neovim tlp lxappearance pcmanfam kitty xarchiver speedchrunch transmission-gtk firefox-esr i3-gaps arandr arc-theme pandoc texlive-scheme-basic gh git rofi