Nice: the rest of actual install was really fast, several minutes perhaps. Booting into actual installed OS just works, internet (wired) just works. I did not check audio yet lol :) 4\/<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418943648311514","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418943648311514","objectType":"note","content":"
Nice: the rest of actual install was really fast, several minutes perhaps. Booting into actual installed OS just works, internet (wired) just works. I did not check audio yet lol :) 4\/<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418943648311514","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418916620573455","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418916620573455"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364355","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:16:31+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418943648311514"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-original-tmp20221107045746.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-48-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-24-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"18661"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https:\/\/aras-p.info Admin of https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","note":"Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https:\/\/aras-p.info Admin of https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place"}},"content":"
Okay: Fedora site as a downloadable ISO and utility to write this into a USB stick. Then you can boot into actually working Fedora from that, that also functions as an installer. I like! I picked the KDE flavor of Fedora by the way. 1\/<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418896230700301","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418896230700301","objectType":"note","content":"
Okay: Fedora site as a downloadable ISO and utility to write this into a USB stick. Then you can boot into actually working Fedora from that, that also functions as an installer. I like! I picked the KDE flavor of Fedora by the way. 1\/<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418896230700301","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418837737033101","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418837737033101"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364333","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:12:34+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418896230700301"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-original-tmp20221107045746.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-48-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-24-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"18661"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https:\/\/aras-p.info Admin of https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","note":"Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https:\/\/aras-p.info Admin of https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place"}},"content":"
Uhh: From the booted USB, I start the installer. Since my Windows partition takes up all the disk space, it seems to only suggest to format it? I was expecting some sort of \u201c an we shrink your windows partition\u201d option. 2\/<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418906352644337","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418906352644337","objectType":"note","content":"
Uhh: From the booted USB, I start the installer. Since my Windows partition takes up all the disk space, it seems to only suggest to format it? I was expecting some sort of \u201c an we shrink your windows partition\u201d option. 2\/<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418906352644337","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418896230700301","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418896230700301"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364334","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:12:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418906352644337"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-original-tmp20221107045746.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-48-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-24-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"18661"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https:\/\/aras-p.info Admin of https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","note":"Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https:\/\/aras-p.info Admin of https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place"}},"content":"
Uhh: However! The same live OS I just booted into has a KDE Partition Manager app, so I\u2019m going to use that to resize the windows partition.<\/p>
That\u2026 just took four hours with no progress bar. Disk (fast SSD) was chugging at 20MB\/s while resizing 2TB partition down to 1.2TB.<\/p>
It worked! But four hours with no progress indicator. Not nice. 3\/<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418916620573455","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418916620573455","objectType":"note","content":"
Uhh: However! The same live OS I just booted into has a KDE Partition Manager app, so I\u2019m going to use that to resize the windows partition.<\/p>
That\u2026 just took four hours with no progress bar. Disk (fast SSD) was chugging at 20MB\/s while resizing 2TB partition down to 1.2TB.<\/p>
It worked! But four hours with no progress indicator. Not nice. 3\/<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418916620573455","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418906352644337","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418906352644337"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364335","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:12:32+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418916620573455"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/kroitus","displayName":"Vytautas But\u0117nas","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/230523-original-tmp20240108152219.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":240,"height":240},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/230523-96-20250206143623.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/230523-48-20250206143623.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/230523-24-20250206143623.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"230523"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/230523-96-20250206143623.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Migracija tarp social(ist)ini\u0173 tinkl\u0173","url":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/@kroitus","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"kroitus","displayName":"Vytautas But\u0117nas","note":"Migracija tarp social(ist)ini\u0173 tinkl\u0173"}},"content":"
@aras<\/a> @vaidas<\/a> NEVER ask the question on what distro is the best...<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/kroitus\/statuses\/115418910699952263","object":{"id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/kroitus\/statuses\/115418910699952263","objectType":"note","content":" @aras<\/a> @vaidas<\/a> NEVER ask the question on what distro is the best...<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/@kroitus\/115418910699952263","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418889349192423","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418889349192423"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/vaidas"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364302","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:07:56+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/@kroitus\/115418910699952263"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-original-tmp20221107045746.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-48-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-24-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"18661"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Programmer. 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Let's try Fedora now, and see what has changed in all these years.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418837737033101","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418837737033101","objectType":"note","content":" A Linux noob (*) live-toots their Linux PC setup experience!<\/p> (*) I have used Linux as my primary OS in... the previous millennium. It was 1998-2000 I think, and was Debian 2.x, on a 486 with 4MB RAM and 80MB hard drive. But I have used Windows since 2001, and also Mac since 2006.<\/p> So! Let's try Fedora now, and see what has changed in all these years.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418837737033101","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364290","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:07:05+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418837737033101"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/vaidas","displayName":"vaidas","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/349100-original-tmp20250609114801.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/349100-96-20250609114801.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/349100-48-20250609114801.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/349100-24-20250609114802.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"349100"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/349100-96-20250609114801.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","url":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/@vaidas","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"vaidas","displayName":"vaidas"}},"content":" @aras<\/a> how did you end up choosing Fedora?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-08:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/vaidas\/statuses\/115418882540161445","object":{"id":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/users\/vaidas\/statuses\/115418882540161445","objectType":"note","content":" @aras<\/a> how did you end up choosing Fedora?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/@vaidas\/115418882540161445","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras\/statuses\/115418837737033101","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aras\/115418837737033101"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-10-22:objectType=thread:nonce=16c31bb9fc5646b1","notice_info":{"local_id":"11364291","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-10-22T17:07:04+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/river.group.lt\/@vaidas\/115418882540161445"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aras","displayName":"Aras Pranckevi\u010dius","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-original-tmp20221107045746.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-48-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-24-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"18661"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18661-96-20221107050038.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Programmer. 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