Part 3!! Installing Apps and Tweaking KDE Fedora Settings!

Welcome back to the third installment of installing Fedora Linux KDE Plasma spin on a new Yoga 6 notebook! If you haven't already, be sure to catch parts 1 and 2, as it will help you get caught up:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/RpXVYuIW3rg Part 2: https://youtu.be/LN1cfjrCaKU

I hope you enjoy this video and get a better idea of how to install Fedora Linux clean on bare metal (the Yoga 6 notebook) There are many ways to install Linux and many distros. This is part 3 of what I do when doing a fresh install of Fedora.

A special thank you to TAHERI Omide for making this video possible!

Here's what we're doing in part 3:

00:06 - Review of Parts 1 and 2 01:05 - List of things to do! 01:59 - Changes in DNF settings 05:05 - Updating the system with DNF 05:56 - The RPM Fusion Repositories 06:33 - Installing tlp 07:30 - Installing Media Plugins 09:47 - Installing other packages 12:32 - Display scaling in KDE Plasma 13:39 - Mouse/trackpad settings 15:18 - Changing the hostname 16:25 - Installing Virtual Box 19:01 - Other desktop environments 21:18 - Installing GIMP 26:11 - Kdenlive Install 29:12 - Appearence system settings 45:40 - Brave Browser installation 49:13 - Future videos on the Yoga 6 and KDE! 50:02 - Wrap up - Is a Yoga 6 with Linux worth it?

Helpful Links: Install VirtualBox https://linuxnightly.com/install-virtualbox-fedora/ (I had to use this specific dnf command: dnf install VirtualBox-7.0.x86_64)

Some Lists for things to do after installing Fedora: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/switching-desktop-environments/ https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-things-to-do-after-installing-fedora/ https://linuxnightly.com/install-virtualbox-fedora/ https://www.debugpoint.com/10-things-to-do-fedora-37-after-install/ https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-installing-fedora/ HomeLinuxFedora21 Best Things To Do After Installing Fedora Linux 37

My custom list, compiled from the many lists above:

1. edit/etc/dnf/dnf.conf for fast settings

2. Update the system sudo dnf update

3. Install the rpmfusion repositories 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

4. Improve battery life sudo dnf install tlp tlp-rdw

5. Install media plugins sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-*,good-*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel sudo dnf install lame* --exclude=lame-devel sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia

6. Install software not a part of the spin sudo dnf install -y vlc virtualbox qbittorrent steam obs-studio steam sudo dnf install -y unzip p7zip p7zip-plugins unrar

7. Great tool to monitor hard drive or SSD usage sudo dnf install iotop

8. Display scaling

9. Change Mouse settings

10. general appearance

11. Change the device hostname sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "New_Custom_Name"

12. power save settings

Install Virtualbox:

13. Install VirtualBox https://linuxnightly.com/install-virtualbox-fedora/ (I had to use specific dnf command: dnf install VirtualBox-7.0.x86_64)

14. install other desktop environments ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXAziGcu-Ec