Why Fedora?

Fedora is the preferred distro of aier. Fedora offers a high-quality out-of-the-box experience while remaining highly flexible. It is stable, yet it has up-to-date and cutting edge packages.

Installation

• Install Fedora onto your machine

  TODO: A video step-by-step installation.

  • Installing Fedora in the Simplest Possible Way by Abhishek Prakash from It's FOSS.

  • NVIDIA Drivers Guide by Official RPM Fusion.

  • Fedora on MacBook by Official Asahi Linux.

• Update system

  Terminal

  sudo dnf update -y

  GUI (Gnome Software)

  

• Reboot

  reboot

Create snapshots/backups for your computer

We'll be using btrfs-assistant, a simple GUI for managing snapshots. It sits on top of snapper and uses Fedora's default BTRFS filesystem, so snapshots are quick and preserve SELinux labels — no permissive mode and no relabeling needed.

Prefer the terminal?

Every step below is also available through the snapper CLI if you'd rather not use the GUI.

• Install btrfs-assistant

  sudo dnf install btrfs-assistant snapper python3-dnf-plugin-snapper

• Set up snapshots

  Open btrfs-assistant and go to the Snapper Settings tab. Click New, set Backup path to /, give it a Config name, then click Save.

  

  With the config selected, tick Enable timeline snapshots and choose how many to keep under Snapshot Retention.

  

  Then, under systemd Unit Settings, tick Snapper timeline enabled and Snapper cleanup enabled and click Apply systemd changes.

  

  I recommend keeping 3–5 snapshots at a time.

• Take your first snapshot

  Switch to the Snapper tab, select your config, and click New to take a manual snapshot. Give it a description like clean install.

  

• Restore a snapshot when needed

  On the Snapper tab, open the Browse/Restore view, select the snapshot you want, and click Restore. Reboot once it completes.

  Want to boot straight into a snapshot when your system won't start? grub-btrfs adds a snapshots submenu to GRUB for exactly that. It has no Fedora package and must be built from source, so follow its README if you'd like to set it up.

Further customisation

From this point on, customisation for your Fedora installation would mainly be based on the DE that you are using.

• Gnome Guide
• aier's Gnome

Contributors

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