Goodbye, Windows. Hello, Linux!

Well, I am back to Linux, and this time I believe it’s for good. Before I tell you why I am completely switching, let me give you some context. I’ve been on and off of Linux Distros for quite some time now. However, in late November of this year, I found myself in a pickle. Since I’m currently unemployed and with no money to continue paying for services like Proton Drive, Proton Pass, things of that nature, I decided to look into the self hosted aspect of things. I tried to do all of that using Windows, it kinda worked, but it felt wrong, I had some weird issues. Then I thought: “Now this is a great opportunity to install once more a Linux Distro and try it out over there.”. I couldn’t be more right. I installed Fedora 43 on my main tower, configured everything and I was ready to go. All working flawlessly with a server working with Debian as well, all perfect. I will definitely write a post about this whole process in the future. ...

15 December 2025 · 2 min · Eloy Melo

Fedora Apps

Fedora oficial repository OBS Studio, Steam, VLC media player, Cheese, LibreOffice, BTRFS Assistant, MenuLibre, qBittorrent, Kdenlive, Wine, Protontricks, Lutris, GIMP, GParted, Audacity, OpenRGB, Guvcview, Chromium, Firefox, QEMU, libvirt Daemon (QEMU), Virtual Machine Manager. Command to install all of them at once: sudo dnf install obs-studio steam vlc cheese libreoffice btrfs-assistant menulibre qbittorrent kdenlive wine protontricks lutris gimp gparted audacity openrgb guvcview chromium firefox qemu libvirt-daemon-qemu virt-manager Flatpaks Tube Converter, Signal, Bitwarden, Discord, Flatseal, Heroic Games Launcher, Extension Manager, Blanket, Spotify, MangoHud (Steam Utility), GDM Settings, Constrict, Obsidian, Piper, Pika Backup, Adwaita-dark Theme, LocalSend, MusicBrainz Picard and Spotube. ...

12 December 2025 · 1 min · Eloy Melo

Fedora Fixes

1. Flatpaks missing dark GTK theme flatpak install org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Adwaita-dark Also see this article about it. 2. Virtual Manager (KVM) ethernet not working Open this file and add the following at the end right under #firewall_backend = “nftables”. firewall_backend = "iptables" Restart the libvirtd service. sudo systemctl restart libvirtd Now it should work after restarting the VM. Source 3. NVIDIA drivers If you have a NVIDIA card, I suggest you follow the steps covered in this tutorial created by Fady Osama. ...

12 December 2025 · 1 min · Eloy Melo

Fedora Post Install

Make DNF faster by adding these lines in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf # DNF config fastestmirror=True max_parallel_downloads=10 defaultyes=True keepcache=True Update your system sudo dnf update Enable 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 Source Switch to full ffmpeg sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing Source Enable Flatpaks flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo Source Install media plugins sudo dnf group install Multimedia Source Enable video thumbnails sudo dnf install ffmpegthumbnailer Enable HEIC image support sudo dnf install heif-pixbuf-loader sudo dnf install libheif-freeworld Change Hostname of the machine sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "New_Custom_Name" Recommended Guides: Fedora Better Fonts ...

9 April 2025 · 1 min · Eloy Melo