Beginner's Guide: 15 Essential Tweaks for New Fedora Workstation Users
Fedora Workstation is an excellent Linux distribution, one that’s celebrated across the community. If you’re just starting out with it, this video will guide you through the Top 15 things you should do right after installing Fedora. This is great for beginners, but who knows – even intermediate users might pick something up.
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00:00 – Intro
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02:50 – Update your system
04:41 – Customize your system via GNOME Settings
09:20 – Customize your Applications Menu
10:31 – Enable online services
11:38 – Install GNOME Tweaks
13:39 – Set up a Dock
16:05 – Enable third-party Repositories
17:24 – Setting up RPM Fusion
18:48 – The merch shop was recently updated!
19:42 – Installing video drivers (Nvidia, etc)
22:12 – Install additional Software
26:15 – Enable tray icons
29:55 – Disable GNOME’s annoying Alert Sound
31:08 – Install Google Chrome
33:58 – Enable additional multimedia support
36:07 – Enable support for playing DVD’s in Fedora
37:09 – Install Steam
38:39 – Launch a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes
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centos 7
Running Fedora 39 at one of my computers (I have… a few).
With Cinnamon, because I find Gnome HORRIBLY user-unfriendely (unless you get the Gnome Shell Extensions); I'd rather use Openbox or Fluxbox than Gnome.
Ryzen 5 2600, 8GB DDR4-RAM, Quadro P1000 with the Nouveau driver (in a black Corsair "Corsair 275R airflow" PC case).
Fedora works just FINE (as does Linux Mint and LMDE and Ubuntu and OpenSUSE and Manjaro). Compare THAT with that GODAWFUL Windows 10/11… #shudder
In fact, since I started with Linux in 2007, I have never had any problems with Linux (except a kernel panic at first boot with Debian years ago, and a few PICNIC problems…).
Linus Torvalds should get a statue on every continent (alright, you too, Richard) – including Antarctica – for having given us Linux.
Nothing new to me, somethings I just don't use (like tray icons), but still a great video.
Reading through this comments section reminds me of why I thought I would never switch to linux from windows…..
There are some really toxic and hateful people that use this kernel and it's associated software.
This is such a shame, yet these very same bad apples that like to shame those who would dare to ask for help or advice.
This comments section is exactly what's wrong with this community, not everyone but those bad apples ruin the experiance for new people wanting to try out a distro…. Such a shame….
Thank you Jay for making the effort on these kinds of videos for new comers.
I install nvidia drivers . After restarting it shows nvidia kernal modules are missing. Falling back to noveau. So how to solve this
I installed Fedora a while back- had it for about a week– found All kinds of issues– it was slow- glitchy- and would hang up a lot.. I don't think that was right– was there maybe something I did that caused this? I liked it– IF it had worked right.. but for me– the first thing I did after installing Fedora was to REFORMAT the drive and install MX.. because it didn't work.. and again– probably MY fault– but why?
Gnome is annoying.
Can you do an advanced follow up?
Like using docker, Making a backup of OS, separate partition for /home dir , tips about game emulation , etc etc
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i had issues using ssh to connect to a headless workstation (didn't want to install server). It would go to sleep, found the settings with
sudo -u gdm dbus-run-session gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power | grep sleep
set type to 'nothing' and timeout to 0
type and timeout for battery and AC power
thanks EU!
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Sir I have Questions for You..
What Operating System you use as your Primary OS or as an daily Driver
And Which Linux distro OS you would Prefer for Others.
Please answer sir.
Great review! Thanks!
This is awesome. I've been using Fedora with completely vanilla gnome for a couple of months now in favor of getting used to the intended gnome workflow, which I'm pretty much there I think.
That being said, I think I'm now granting myself the permission to now look at gnome extensions and tweaks to really get it where I like it.
The very first thing is to enable fast server and parallel downloads!
This was fantastic! I'd love to see similar guides for other distros. For instance, you loved Debian 12 when it was released, and I wonder what tweaks you'd make to it now that you've had some time with it. But I'd love to see a whole series like this of how to get the most out of some popular distros. Thanks!
Jeez Gnome. I can respect that they do things differently, but they also seem kind of stubborn for no real benefit at all, like the system tray. But on the flip side they have something very nice like Gnome Boxes.
Excellent timing, just switched to Nobara. Let's see what applies. EDIT, at least half of the tips are Gnome-related. The rest are already applied in Nobara official KDE edition. Not that it diminishes the value of this video in any way.
Thanks for the great video
Nice. Keep it coming
that's a lot of things to do before gnome becomes useful 😂
First step, install KDE
Just a few things to mention surrounding the dock, and the overview button, pressing the windows key or the command key AKA the power key will bring up the windows overview, also, pressing the power key and a number key (eg. powerkey +1) would open your firefox app.
And the only reason why Gnome is the best /s
Perfect timing. I just setup my laptop on Fedora 40. Thanks Jay!
Please make one on Debian 12.
Bro, how do I fix my color? For some reason, my laptop's display colors look worse. It has kind of like a blue tint. Increasing green and red should fix it.
I am using arch.
Thank you for another fine and informative video. Even though I like Mint and MX, Fedora is tempting me.