Fedora

Guides for Fedora: apps, fonts, fixes and post-install setup.

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. ...

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. ...

Fedora Better Fonts

1. Install Microsoft Fonts sudo dnf install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig -y And then: sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm If you got errors while trying to run the command above, run it with the –nodigest flag. So basically sudo rpm --nodigest -i ... 2. Enable COPR repository (CURRENTLY NOT WORKING FOR FEDORA 43) sudo dnf copr enable chriscowleyunix/better_fonts -y Install these packages: sudo dnf install fontconfig-font-replacements -y (Optional) Enable subpixel (rgb) antialiasing: sudo dnf install fontconfig-enhanced-defaults -y 3. GNOME Tweaks Make sure to set “Antialiasing” to “Subpixel (for LCD screens)” and “Rendering” to “Slight”. ...

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 ...