Tux the penguin flying

My current setup

Dotfiles

This is a repo for my dotfiles and its kind of fucked up. Some configs have there own repos because I didn't think ahead lmao.

Why linux

I have always liked being able to customize, mod, and poke inside different things. Computers are machines for us to play around with and use how we see fit yet the only thing the big tech companies want to do it lock everything up and it disgusts me. Fuck google, fuck microsoft, fuck apple, and fuck all the other evil tech companies!!! Its time for the open source revolution and seize them all and open source the entire world!!! Without linux or any other unix life would be much much worse. Linux is my safe place from all the shit in the world.

Window kills kittens

fedora xfce

Fedora been my go to for quite a while though I sometimes switch desktops lmao. I have tried the gnome version but it doesn't really fit me so most of the time I have used the kde spin though recently kde just haven't been feeling the same. it has been feeling buggy and have been fighting with nvidia drivers. After running xfce on my second computer for a while I grew to really like it and started using it on my main and it have been running much better then kde.

Setting up fedora

Fedora has a little extra setup you wouldn't see in something like linux mint though is isn't that bad.

Packages

The default repos have lots of stuff but you might want an app that isn't in it like steam. I knowe the gnome version has a enable 3rd party repos button that does everything I listed here but I am on the xfce version and also had to do this on the kde verison.

  • Setup rpm fusion to get more packages in dnf with the resources here
  • Install flatpak if not already there using "sudo dnf install flatpak" then add flathub to get some cool apps!

Multimedia

By default fedora doesn't have many codecs and you need to install them yourself. Without them many media files will not work and lots of youtube videos will not be able to play. The fedora docs use to show how to install them but they removed it from their page and instead shows a new version which installs some stuff but not everything. I do both of them to make sure I get all the codecs I need.

  • Update your system with sudo dnf upgrade
  • Install the new packages with sudo dnf group install Multimedia
  • Install the old ones with these three commands in a row:
    • sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
    • sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel
    • sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia

Nvidia drivers

Nvidia isn't the best on linux and I like AMD much more though I am stuck with nvidia for now. For xfce there are some extra settings to enable it but it works great once that is done. You will need rpm fusion first before you can install the drivers.

  • Follow the fedora docs on nvidia here
  • Follow the archwiki on nvidia in lightdm here though the provider setting in display_setup.sh might be wrong so use xrandr --listproviders to find the correct one. For me its "NVIDIA-G0".

xfce settings in fedora