How to Fedora Linux like the blog admin (Post No. 42)

    And of course, speaking of how to Fedora like the blog admin, we will be looking at in today's blog post, How to use Fedora Linux like the blog admin. Now, if you've been paying some attention to the titles of all of these blog posts so far, you will likely begin to notice a pattern here. What is it? Well, simply put --- many of these Linux distros will be simple enough to get started with on your own & you can easily learn most of these distros by both exploring the environment on your own, and looking up the help of the distro's specific forum in case you get stuck and need to be helped through getting it to work. 

    With that out of the way, we will be moving onto today's topic, How to Fedora Linux, like the blog admin. 

    "But wait a minute," you might say...

    "Didn't we already cover Fedora in a past blog post?"

    To which, I reply my skeptical blog reader...

      If you were paying attention, I have made reference to a flavor of the Fedora Linux distribution in the past. This distro flavor is Fedora Silverblue, which doesn't have the same sort of functionality as Fedora. Basically, it's similar to how the similarities between the Acer Aspire and Acer Nitro both start & end with just the brand name of the hardware. Meaning? Both of those computers are released by the Acer computer corporation, but, at the same time --- they are not the same. The Acer Aspire is aimed at people who just want to have a computer for doing productivity tasks, and only those types of tasks. The Nitro can do all those productivity tasks, but I purchased the Nitro I use for playing three games primarily, but I'm likely just going to keep adding more until I can't add any more. 

   With those differences clearly out of the way, we will end this blog post's introduction, and begin with today's discussion of the blog topic. How to Fedora Workstation like the blog's administrator. 

    With that kept in mind, whenever I refer to "Fedora Linux" from this point forward, I am talking precisely about Fedora Workstation, not ---     Fedora Silverblue,which I have already covered.

How To Fedora Linux like the Blog Admin

Step 1

  Just like last time when we covered Fedora Linux work, we will simply start by getting the ISO of Fedora Linux from the Fedora Linux website, https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download/, and selecting the one appropriate for our computer's architecture. You may either choose to use the Fedora Media Writer Tool for Microsoft Windows, Mac, or Linux if you plan to install Fedora on another machine (or overwrite the current OS installed on your current machine --- be sure to back up important files if that is the route you are going to be taking), or just download the ISO file for "Intel and AMD x86_64 systems," if like most people your PC is an x86_64 system. If you have an ARM or PowerPC64 system, download the appropriate architecture for that, but no architecture is universal. 

 How To Fedora Linux Like The Blog Admin

Step 2

   OK, so the next step is obviously "building" a system to put the newly downloaded Fedora Linux on. 

   Just boot off the Fedora ISO and allow it to do the ISO check. If you have the system correctly on the right hardware, it should pass without any errors. 

How To Fedora Linux Like The Blog Admin

Step 3

    Since you have normally booted off the Installation CD, and gone into the Live desktop, you will see the welcome screen. (No startup sound will play as this is not Ubuntu). So, now we will be going to click install Fedora Workstation, as the next step is going to be running the Setup program. Same as last time, we need to partition the disk, and allow it to set up as normal. (If you need to remember how to do this, just look up Post No #41, "How To Fedora Silverblue like the Blog Admin.") 

  (I won't be spamming the pictures like I was when I was covering Silverblue, as this is the second of the blog series.) 

 How To Fedora Linux Like The Blog Admin

Step 4

   When the initial install process of Fedora Linux Like The Blog Admin --- Step 4, completes... Register your user credentials correctly as always. 

    We will reboot when the prompt displays it is alright to do so. We also will remove the installation media from the drive, whether it be DVD, USB image, or ISO image depending on how this system is being installed. 

    Once the process finishes, we will be into the Fedora Linux desktop. 

    It might take a while if you are only doing this on a 2GB of RAM system --- on VirtualBox, considering you may not have a full amount of RAM (such as bare minimum 4GB) to work with. 

      Now we are in the Fedora Workstation 38 desktop, which is not immutable like Fedora Silverblue. If you want to install the appropriate "additions" package like as if you have installed the OS on VirtualBox, go ahead and do that now. Otherwise, the OS is pretty much ready for use as-is. 

    Thank you for your time.