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   Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:07:05 JST Aras Pranckevičius

   A Linux noob (*) live-toots their Linux PC setup experience!

   (*) 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.

   So! Let's try Fedora now, and see what has changed in all these years.

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:07:03 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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     @vaidas I asked the internet which distro is “best”, got a thousand different replies, and so rolled a dice and picked this one!

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     vaidas (vaidas@river.group.lt)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:07:04 JST vaidas

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     @aras how did you end up choosing Fedora?

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     Vytautas Butėnas (kroitus@river.group.lt)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:07:56 JST Vytautas Butėnas

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     @aras @vaidas NEVER ask the question on what distro is the best...

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:12:32 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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     Uhh: However! The same live OS I just booted into has a KDE Partition Manager app, so I’m going to use that to resize the windows partition.

     That… just took four hours with no progress bar. Disk (fast SSD) was chugging at 20MB/s while resizing 2TB partition down to 1.2TB.

     It worked! But four hours with no progress indicator. Not nice. 3/

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:12:33 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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     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 “ an we shrink your windows partition” option. 2/

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:12:34 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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     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/

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 02:16:31 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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     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/

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