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Fedora
You can say what you want on Ubuntu, but you have got to admit that it has quite a
big community and hobby-developers that enables end users to easily install things
or do tasks that are rather cumbersome on other Linux distributions. Not to mention
the shitload of Ubuntu guides out there… Fedora lacks some of this, however if you
are using Fedora I suppose that you more than just an average Linux user…
Therefore, I have decided to come up with this guide, to give Fedora some love… So
here we go!
The Fedora Logo
1. Always use location entry in Nautilus
Before:
After:
2. RPM Fusion
Head over to RPMFusion’s configuration page, but you’re probably lazy so here you
go:
3. DNF tweaks
DNF is great and have come a long way since the days of Yum, it can be even better
by enabling 3 of its plugins:
fastestmirror: Selects the fastest mirror server for the DNF updates
deltarpm: Instead of downloading the whole RPM update , it just downloads the
portion of changed files since the previous update, can save on huge download.
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
fastestmirror=true
deltarpm=true
max_parallel_downloads=6
4. MS Core Fonts
On Ubuntu and others it is rather easy, but in Fedora it might be painful. There
are quiet an amount of guides out there which all redirect to dead link to
downloads fonts… However there is this way, provided by RPM Fusion (and is not much
documented for a reason)
Well, I am using Gmail and Gsuite with my browser, but I still want the feel of a
local mail client sometimes… Fedora developers have knowingly decided not to
include a mail client in Fedora. I get this… Thunderbird cowardly refuses to
integrate with the OS it is installed on and looks different. Evolution is too
bulky, but there’s one little client that should satisfy the average user:
6. Hostname
I might have missed that, but installation had no choice for setting the hostname,
but we can easily amend it by invoking the below:
Starting Gnome 3.36 there’s an app for managing you extensions, which is strangely
not installed by default on Fedora
Recently I have found out that PulseAudio (the sound server) has an option to do
echo and noise cancellation, I think it is kinda handy it these Zoom-infused times.
.ifexists module-echo-cancel.so
load-module module-echo-cancel aec_method=webrtc source_name=echocancel
sink_name=echocancel1
set-default-source echocancel
set-default-sink echocancel1
.endif
$ pulseaudio -k
Your audio devices should now have a longer name specifying there is noise
cancellation:
Oh, and if you feel like tweaking your web camera video settings:
Gnome-software by itself already has flatpaks enabled by default, however for the
the flatpak command line tool it is not (and well, I like to do things from the
terminal) so:
10. Codecs
Well I don’t like it.. here’s the terminal command for disabling it , first command
if for the mouse, the second one is for the touchpad (if you are using a laptop)
When you’re on a touch screen natural scrolling feels… natural, but it means that
your mouse wheel is backwards.