This article has been updated for Fedora 42: /archives/14050/ But this article is still worth reading — check out the ideas in here first, then go look at the updated steps Longtime readers of my blog probably know I used to be a loyal Ubuntu user, running GNOME Shell, and I enjoyed poking fun at irrational KDE and Arch Linux users. Of course, back in 2021 I actually started migrating my main distro from Ubuntu to Fedora — at first it was just “let’s try it out,” but one thing led to another and I’ve been using it ever since. So here’s this guide/manual thing. Its main purpose is to help people who have no idea how to install, use, or configure Fedora, to clear up their confusion, and to share some of my own experience in the hope it helps more people. Of course I’ve got a selfish reason too: recording my own configuration process so I can look it up later.

The Fedora 25 here is the Gnome-Shell-based Fedora 25 release. Verdict first: after setup, Fedora 25 with Gnome-Shell is basically usable — and “basically” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

Got some time to write dumb code again recently, so I opened Vim. First order of business was updating plugins, using Vim-plug. And right after the update, problems showed up… What the hell is this cursed color scheme?

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is out. Lately I’ve been upgrading the VPS, laptop and desktop I actually use, to fit my own needs. Writing the process down here so future me can look it up.