fedora-btw

Resources for myself on using Fedora specifically and Linux in general

Why

Even though I use Obsidian for notetaking and as a knowledge base, my vault is a mess and it has bunch of "nuggets of wisdom" I collected over the years. With this repo, I seek to extract these bits of knowledge and put them in a tidy way here, essentially another way to keep myself accountable.

Index

Guides

• Post-Install "Nice-to-haves"
• COPRs of Interest: COPRs that I found interesting and could use in the future.
• On packaging and package maintenance
• Installing and using Doom Emacs
• RHCSA 10 Studies

My devices

In this repo, I will try my best to make the resources device-agnostic. To have an added context, I think it's best to add what devices are "in-scope" for these resources.

In my daily life, I have bunch of devices:

• PowerSpec G730: A prebuilt I got to upgrade my desktop.
  • My daily driver.
  • Currently running bazzirco-dx-nvidia bootc image
  • Specs:
    • AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
    • Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
    • 32 GB RAM
• Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th gen (Thinkpad): A refurbished Thinkpad I got from Amazon
  • An upgrade for the Microsoft Surface that was passed down to me.
  • My "mobility" daily driver.
• Lenovo Y50-70: An old laptop that carried me through the college years.
  • Ethernet port is broken
  • Small hinge issues
  • Only one USB port seems to work
• Steam Deck OLED 1 TB: Christmas gift I got from my awesome wife
  • Stock, aside from the MicroSD card and Decky Loader installation
• Microsoft Surface: Not sure which model but it's old, will add more details later
  • Served me faithfully for years.
  • I like the form factor.

AI Use Disclaimer

I will limit the use of AI / LLMs as much as possible, be aware that I occassionally use Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT to do certain things such as:

• Tedious tasks (e.g. formatting)
• A second pair of eyes (e.g. proofreading scripts, expensive linter, etc)
• As a rubber duck that talks back.
• For studying (e.g. "I am practicing area XYZ for the RHCSA exam, can you give me a drill to reinforce the concepts I learned so far?")
• For researching (e.g. "Here are bunch of docs, can you explain to me how I can do XYZ?")

Credits, Appreciations, and Inspirations

• tonybtw: Main inspiration. Although his videos can be too fast for me, I can follow along. Learned a great deal of things.
  • Website
  • GitHub
• Zirconium: Great bootc image that has Niri and Dank Material Shell. It doesn't get better than this. Solid community.
• valerie-tar-gz: For maintaining Bazzirco, my daily driver.