FreshFedora

A comprehensive script to set up a fresh install of Fedora Linux with personalized settings and applications.

Features

GNOME Settings

• ✅ Dark mode (Adwaita-dark theme)
• ✅ 24-hour time format
• ✅ Custom fonts (Adwaita Sans 12, JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono 16)
• ✅ Window buttons (minimize, maximize, close)
• ✅ Battery percentage display
• ✅ Caps Lock remapped to Escape
• ✅ Text scaling (1.10)
• ✅ Keyboard repeat delay tweak

Audio

• ✅ Sets default microphone volume to 30%

System Updates & Cleanup

• ✅ Firmware update check (via fwupdmgr)
• ✅ System upgrade (dnf upgrade)
• ✅ Remove unnecessary GNOME applications (cheese, firefox, gnome-calendar, gnome-contacts, gnome-maps, gnome-tour, orca, simple-scan, yelp)
• ✅ Autoremove + DNF cache cleanup
• ✅ Install essential applications

Applications Installed

Installed via DNF

• Development: VS Code (code), vim, nvim, git-lfs, gcc, make, go, docker, python3-pip
• Media: GIMP, Steam, sox
• System: gnome-tweaks, gnome-firmware, stacer
• Terminal: zsh, zsh-autosuggestions, fzf, starship, fastfetch, btop, cmatrix, asciiquarium, cbonsai, tldr
• Other: ollama, rclone, rclone-browser

Installed via Flatpak (Flathub)

• Zen Browser
• DBeaver Community
• Extension Manager
• Obsidian
• Spotify

Installed via installer script

• uv (Astral installer)

Fonts

• ✅ JetBrainsMono Nerd Font installation
• ✅ Set as default monospace font in GNOME

Shell Setup

• ✅ Zsh installation and configuration
• ✅ Oh-my-zsh installation
• ✅ Zsh set as default shell
• ✅ Starship prompt installed and enabled for Zsh

Graphics & Drivers

• ✅ NVIDIA drivers installation (akmod-nvidia, CUDA support)
• ✅ RPM Fusion repositories (free & nonfree)
• ✅ Hardware acceleration support (libavcodec-freeworld)

Docker

• ✅ Docker installation and configuration
• ✅ User added to docker group
• ✅ Docker service enabled and started

Installation

Prerequisites

• Fedora Workstation
• Working internet connection
• sudo access for your user
• On a typical Fedora Workstation install you already have: curl, unzip, flatpak, fwupdmgr, gsettings, wpctl

1. Download the script:

   git clone https://github.com/loureq177/FreshFedora.git
   cd FreshFedora

2. Make script executable:

   chmod +x fresh_fedora.sh

3. Run the main script:

   ./fresh_fedora.sh

4. Reboot your system:

   sudo reboot

Logging

All installation steps are logged to: /tmp/fedora-setup.log

View logs with:

cat /tmp/fedora-setup.log