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.

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.

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.

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3. NVIDIA drivers

If you have a NVIDIA card, I suggest you follow the steps covered in this tutorial created by Fady Osama.

1. Make DNF faster by adding these lines in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

# DNF config
fastestmirror=True
max_parallel_downloads=10
defaultyes=True
keepcache=True

2. Update your system

sudo dnf update

3. 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

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4. Switch to full ffmpeg

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

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5. Enable Flatpaks

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

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6. Install media plugins

sudo dnf group install Multimedia

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7. Enable video thumbnails

sudo dnf install ffmpegthumbnailer

8. Enable HEIC image support

sudo dnf install heif-pixbuf-loader

sudo dnf install libheif-freeworld

9. Change Hostname of the machine

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "New_Custom_Name"

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