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Fedora

Linux OS

Disk partition

  1. Unplug disks except for disk for system

  2. Use recommended partition.

    • For dual-boot with Windows, include a /boot/efi partition of 256MiB.

Suggested partitions sizes

  • / >= 70GiB, (at least) double if you plan to use docker.

  • swap == min(16GiB, system memory)

Recommendations after install it

  1. Update terminal preferences

    • TODO

  2. Set Hostname

  3. Update system sudo dnf update

  4. ssh: enable it on boot and restart

    sudo systemctl enable sshd
sudo systemctl restart sshd

  5. Add steroids

    sudo dnf install htop iotop glances screen vim-enhanced powerline powerline-fonts tmux-powerline vim-powerline environment-modules fuse-sshfs dkms kernel-devel acpid libglvnd-glx libglvnd-opengl libglvnd-devel pv gnome-tweak-tool p7zip p7zip-plugins icedtea-web java-openjdk transmission tmux gcc pkgconfig unzip kernel-headers

    • Packages from htop onward are to monitor computer load.

    • Packages from screen onward are to create persistent shell-session.

    • Packages from vim-enhanced onward for code editing and beautify shell or VIM.

    • Packages from environment-modules is to manipulate environment variables.

    • Packages from fuse-sshfs is to mount remote filesystem via ssh.

    • Packages from dkms onward to setup nvidia-driver.

    • Package pv is progress-bar useful to keep an eye on tar/untar

    • Packages from gnome-tweak-tool customize gnome. Display minimize in top-bar.

    • Packages from p7zip onward are for uncompress files.

    • Packages from icedtea-web onward are for java&web-toolkit.

    • Package transmission is for torrents.

  6. Tweak dnf

    Ignore the deltarpm.

  7. Tweak Gnome

    • Open Tweaks

    • Enable maximize and minimize button: Go to Window Titlebar 😉

  8. Install VSCode. Check this.

  9. Enable video support. Reuqired for firefox

    • Add RPMFusion repo

      sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

    • Add gstreamer and ffmpeg.

      sudo dnf install \
    gstreamer-plugins-base \
    gstreamer1-plugins-base \
    gstreamer-plugins-bad \
    gstreamer-plugins-ugly \
    gstreamer1-plugins-ugly \
    gstreamer-plugins-good-extras \
    gstreamer1-plugins-good \
    gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras \
    gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld \
    ffmpeg \
    gstreamer-ffmpeg

      TODO: are all this required?

    Credits: Robbi

  10. Install Chrome.

    Developing websites and open awkward pages design only for Chrome.

  11. Install flatpack programs

    VLC, slack, etc.

Docker

Check this.

Supercharge terminal with power-line

In case, you haven't installed power-line. Nice article here if you are a shell lover.

Caveats

If you get an error related with inotify limits (details below). Follow this to fix it.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 12, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/__init__.py", line 913, in setup
    self.do_setup(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/vim.py", line 211, in do_setup
    self.update_renderer()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/__init__.py", line 859, in update_renderer
    self.create_renderer(**cr_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/__init__.py", line 598, in create_renderer
    self.config_loader.set_watcher(self.common_config['watcher'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/lib/config.py", line 84, in set_watcher
    self.watcher.transfer_calls(watcher)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/lib/config.py", line 49, in transfer_calls
    getattr(watcher, attr)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/lib/watcher/inotify.py", line 100, in watch
    self.handle_error()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/lib/inotify.py", line 138, in handle_error
    raise OSError(eno, self.os.strerror(eno) + str(extra))
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on deviceYou may need to increase the inotify limits on your system, via /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_*

Build RPM

  • The best guide to compile RPMs as non-root user.

    I would just add that you can replace gcc by the specs-file (with .specs extension) for the step sudo dnf builddep gcc

Other extensions

TODO: review them