Thanks for this video! Nothing in the process was particularly difficult, but I'm always anxious that I might do something wrong, so seeing everything here really is appreciated!
Just throwing it out there I use Fedora mainly and have a dual boot windows set up. If you run windows on its own separate drive to the linux one it seems to work just fine (as fine as windows can anyways, lol)
thanks for this! on my last install i accidentally pulled the thumb drive too early, causing a bunch of really strange glitches, and this video gave me some better instructions. thanks so much!
Linux has moved on from having to learn the Terminal window and commands such as sudo get which I could never get the hang of. Thanx to this tutorial I'll give it ago again. I have 2 older laptops and an even older pc tower that just hang around gathering dust. Cheers for such a well put together video.🤗🤟👍
Thank you! Had a problem when I was supposed to reboot and take out the thumb drive, it was loading forever. I turned my PC off and on again and that fixed it.
Hi, so I'm considering switching from Windows 10 to Linux Fedora 40, but I would like to test it on my laptop first via live usb test, just to see how the OS runs directly on my hardware without changing anything on my system. When I get to the Grub menu at 7:51, do I select the second option that says "Test this media" rather than the first one for what I'm doing? This is my first time doing this as well.
Will fedora be good for doing online classes, watching recordings, and UA-cam videos, and also sometimes browsing. Pls recommend me something I have a 8gb i5 6th gen laptop and windows runs fine but it is kind of slow.
1:26 i heard that soon windows 10 will finish getting updates, so if my windows doesn't update that means that i can use dual bootly fedora and windows, am I right?
Yes, October 2025 will be the end of Windows 10 unless you want to pay Microsoft for extended updates for 3 years. You certainly can dual boot but it's generally advised to have the two OS's on separate drives on case Windows updates decide to damage GRUB.
I am having a lot of porblem with wifi adapter. Shows wifi networks available near me but cant connect. I am using Cudy WU1400 adapter ( RLT8812BU). Any help?😢
@Digital-Scriptorium Thanks for your reply, Also I got a password on my hp laptop bios and now forgot it, I wanna turn on virtualization, I tried many ways including hp bios utility tool and CMOS battery but no luck at all, can you please guide me how can I process or remove the password? Laptop is HP ELITEBOOK G1
@@TheFactsShift unfortunately, bios passwords can be tricky and it's different for each make and model. Have you referenced the manual for that specific machine to see if it's possible to reset it when it's forgotten?
10:15 this is the scary part for me. I last time i tried to install Ubuntu i ended up wiping all my hard drive . I have one hard drive. I have 3 partion ,C: for window/ OS and D and E for data like games etc etc. 😢 I am tried of windows. Its so dang slow. I heard Linux is faster.
I don't blame you! Sometimes it's best to go all in for this but obviously you'll want to back up your data. Worst case you go back to a fresh install of Windows.
after i installed fedora and and rebooted it the laptop is asking for boot device then i reconnected my usb .now it is fresh installing the fedora again what is the issue here?
I used my SanDisk thumb drive for the installation, when it was done I used the media writer to restore it, but now it won't get detected by any device, not even a windows, whenever I try to format it says [Error unmounting /dev/sda1: target is busy (udisks-error-quark, 14)], any fixes for this?
@@amitnishad0777 I just turned the computer on and off again, holding the power button down for 10 seconds did the trick, then it turned on just fine, if that doesn't work then im not to sure, also there are plenty of linux discord servers out there that can assist you ^
As a beginner I installed Aurora (Fedora 40 variant) alongside Windows on the same drive and hit some snags: 1. The drive partition I had intended for Linux was already formatted, so I had to go back into Windows to delete that partition. I had no idea about the Reclaim option. 2. In the Installation Destination section during install, it shows the existing Windows partitions and the USB drive. I tried selecting the Custom option and couldn't figure out why any partitions I created didn't work. As it turns out, it's impossible for a beginner to figure out the Custom partitions. There was a link option called something like "Automatically Create These Partitions" I clicked that detected my unformatted space on the drive and automatically created the ~4 partitions that I needed within that space to progress with the installation. 3. I created a root password and opted to skip adding a user. It then blocked me after installation with a user/password login screen where I didn't know how to get past it. Eventually after multiple sheer guesses I just entered "root" as the username along with my root password, which finally let me in. At no point did it ever tell me to use the "root" username. 4. For some reason the desktop was zoomed in by 300% (WHY!?) and I had to go into the Display options to set it to 100%. Everything was perfectly fine after that. These aren't major showstopping issues, but they are unnecessary barriers that force beginners to give up and go back to Windows. The installation process should be absolutely 100% intuitive and give actual information instead of assuming that users are willing to trawl through forum posts and watch install guides for answers.
@Digital Scriptorium : Your tutorial is excellent. But how did you capture this whole thing so beautifully as it is done on VM and has been screen recorded. Can you please share the secret, please?
Thank you for this, btw can you give commands for the proper way to install the best multimedia stuff? Is it gstreamer? Been 1+ years since I used fedora and I have forgotten and I remember last time it was hassle. I want to run all avc, hevc, av1, all anime, CGI, 1080p 4K videos without any lag, stuttering and screen tear. I will install mpv for that but the multimedia commands are very difficult for me to manage.
Does it take a long time to show the tour window after i click "start using fedora linux" ? Its been a while and nothing happened. *Fedora 40 installation*
If you're making the bootable drive on windows you can try this utility to make sure the thumb drive doesn't have hidden partitions taking up space. hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
@Digital-Scriptorium yes I have both I want to install fedora but I don't know what to expect with drivers for intel and nvidia, can I install hybrid mode like in popos?
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Thanks for this video! Nothing in the process was particularly difficult, but I'm always anxious that I might do something wrong, so seeing everything here really is appreciated!
No problem! I'm usually in the same boat. I like to see it before I try it. :)
If for some reason you can't see your SSD pop up when choosing where to install the OS, go to the bios and change SATA to AHCI instead of RAID
This will delete everything on said drive tho
Thank you for the info.
Just throwing it out there
I use Fedora mainly and have a dual boot windows set up. If you run windows on its own separate drive to the linux one it seems to work just fine (as fine as windows can anyways, lol)
Haha yep. That seems to be the way to go. I just personally do the one OS route.
thanks for this! on my last install i accidentally pulled the thumb drive too early, causing a bunch of really strange glitches, and this video gave me some better instructions. thanks so much!
No problem! Enjoy! :)
Recently got myself a framework 13 for school and decided to try out linux, thanks for this comprehensive tutorial it made installing fedora a breeze
No problem! I'm glad to hear it's helpful. Enjoy! :)
Linux has moved on from having to learn the Terminal window and commands such as sudo get which I could never get the hang of. Thanx to this tutorial I'll give it ago again. I have 2 older laptops and an even older pc tower that just hang around gathering dust. Cheers for such a well put together video.🤗🤟👍
No problem and enjoy! :)
Thanks, that was helpful! Nothing that I wouldn't be able to do by myself, but with your detailed explanations the process went smoothly and calmer)
No problem and enjoy! :)
Thank you! Had a problem when I was supposed to reboot and take out the thumb drive, it was loading forever. I turned my PC off and on again and that fixed it.
No problem! Enjoy! :)
Hi, so I'm considering switching from Windows 10 to Linux Fedora 40, but I would like to test it on my laptop first via live usb test, just to see how the OS runs directly on my hardware without changing anything on my system. When I get to the Grub menu at 7:51, do I select the second option that says "Test this media" rather than the first one for what I'm doing? This is my first time doing this as well.
Test the media basically checks the files and thumb drive are ok. Using the top option is fine to use as the live OS test.
@@Digital-Scriptorium Thank you, sounds good. Is it also necessary to format your USB drive to fat32 beforehand as well, or is that not needed?
@@kene9073 that's not needed. If you're using Rufus it will auto detect what's needed for the format. So just let it work it's magic.
Will fedora be good for doing online classes, watching recordings, and UA-cam videos, and also sometimes browsing. Pls recommend me something I have a 8gb i5 6th gen laptop and windows runs fine but it is kind of slow.
It's certainly a good option. You can also use Debian or Ubuntu as well. Those are great choices too. Debian is my favorite.
@@Digital-Scriptorium I am thinking about trying out Zorin os first, will it be a good decision?
@@Sheikhm007 I would go with the ones I recommended over Zorin but that is just my personal opinion.
9:47 when I do this step, it doesn’t say I have one. I opened my laptop and took my hard drive out and in again still not showing up with this
Anyway u can fix this
It could be a BIOS setting you need to alter. I believe the distros forums has a guide on what the specifics are.
@@Digital-Scriptorium yeah I tried downloading fedora and it ask me what disk but I had none
@@Digital-Scriptorium well my ssd card went whomp whomp
@@ZZY12365 interesting! But these things do happen.
am stuck at boot loader after i hit 100%, it show me fedora install to hard drive is not responding at 10:53??any help
Hmmm, does it eventually work if you give it time?
1:26 i heard that soon windows 10 will finish getting updates, so if my windows doesn't update that means that i can use dual bootly fedora and windows, am I right?
Yes, October 2025 will be the end of Windows 10 unless you want to pay Microsoft for extended updates for 3 years. You certainly can dual boot but it's generally advised to have the two OS's on separate drives on case Windows updates decide to damage GRUB.
Thank you for this in depth tutorial
No problem! Enjoy! :)
everytime im done downloading fedora and restart it, the "welcome to fedora!" comes up and wants me to install it again.
This is after you pulled the installation media?
Thank you bro for you kind video
No problem! Enjoy! :)
@@Digital-Scriptorium Can you tell me how to install whatsapp in fedora
@@ejazalideveloper you can try: sudo snap install whatsapp-for-linux
@@Digital-Scriptorium bro I want to do my dash to lock like kali linux
@@ejazalideveloper I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that.
Now i want my windows back and exit Fedora software please help me to do that
If you want a Windows 10 or 11 guide I do have videos on those on my channel.
How do you download the exe file for the media writer? I go to the same page and just get a github link, I'm lost
I just sent you some info on the other comment :)
I am having a lot of porblem with wifi adapter. Shows wifi networks available near me but cant connect. I am using Cudy WU1400 adapter ( RLT8812BU). Any help?😢
Hmmm, RTL so I'm guessing it's a Realtek chipset which should be ok. Do you have the 3rd party drivers enabled?
What about the xz libs vulerability / malware ? Has it been fixed on the version now presented for download ?
A good question and yes it should be mitigated. It for sure will be if you run updates on it once it's installed.
Hi how much ram does fedora gnome consume? i have 16gb ram but only have iGPU with processor i5 12450H
That should for sure be more than enough hardware to make things peppy. Honestly 8gb would put you in really good territory.
yeah but when i try and boot from usb i get to grub menu but when i try to boot live session its just a blinking _ no matter what i do
I've seen where it sometimes just hangs for awhile and then goes forward eventually.
Hi bro nice tutorial, besides how you record your screen at startup?
I use a pi-kvm with an actual computer to show it all off.
@Digital-Scriptorium Thanks for your reply, Also I got a password on my hp laptop bios and now forgot it, I wanna turn on virtualization, I tried many ways including hp bios utility tool and CMOS battery but no luck at all, can you please guide me how can I process or remove the password? Laptop is HP ELITEBOOK G1
@@TheFactsShift unfortunately, bios passwords can be tricky and it's different for each make and model. Have you referenced the manual for that specific machine to see if it's possible to reset it when it's forgotten?
@@Digital-Scriptorium There is nothing for that, only way I got Is either flash bios or resoldier the memory partition of that motherboard 😢
@@TheFactsShift yeah, I kinda figured it wasn't going to be an easy fix :(
10:15 this is the scary part for me.
I last time i tried to install Ubuntu i ended up wiping all my hard drive .
I have one hard drive. I have 3 partion ,C: for window/ OS and D and E for data like games etc etc. 😢
I am tried of windows. Its so dang slow. I heard Linux is faster.
I don't blame you! Sometimes it's best to go all in for this but obviously you'll want to back up your data. Worst case you go back to a fresh install of Windows.
after i installed fedora and and rebooted it the laptop is asking for boot device then i reconnected my usb .now it is fresh installing the fedora again what is the issue here?
It could be your boot order in your bios or the boot loader didn't install for some reason.
I used my SanDisk thumb drive for the installation, when it was done I used the media writer to restore it, but now it won't get detected by any device, not even a windows, whenever I try to format it says [Error unmounting /dev/sda1: target is busy (udisks-error-quark, 14)], any fixes for this?
I wonder if a low level format tool would help kick it.
how to fix when Fedora 40 workstation installer won't start. I can boot from USB drive but install to hard drive don't want to start at all.
Is it just not reacting or hanging?
@@Digital-Scriptorium It's not reacting, not even install to hard drive prompt. Only spinning wheel.
I'm curious if you leave it be for 30 minutes and see if it eventually makes it through.
:)
The step at 11:42 is taking an eternity to boot up, I'm not to sure what i did wrong here...
😅
Sometimes certain steps can take a long time. I just give them time.
i am facing the same problem
do i have to change the order of boot setting in my BIOS?
@@Digital-Scriptorium help
@@amitnishad0777 yes, try and see if that will help by adjusting it in your BIOS.
@@amitnishad0777 I just turned the computer on and off again, holding the power button down for 10 seconds did the trick, then it turned on just fine, if that doesn't work then im not to sure, also there are plenty of linux discord servers out there that can assist you ^
I installed thank you. But my brightness is full even though i adjust the slider. Help me
Hmm, it might be worth checking the Fedora forums on that one.
i am doing this just now.! thank you
No problem! Enjoy! :)
🇮🇳Pm Modi ji news 23:51 Iam suddenly realise this is old video 😂😂😂 as expected he was win 3rd time❤️
One version behind but very much still recent enough to still be a good guide to use.
As a beginner I installed Aurora (Fedora 40 variant) alongside Windows on the same drive and hit some snags:
1. The drive partition I had intended for Linux was already formatted, so I had to go back into Windows to delete that partition. I had no idea about the Reclaim option.
2. In the Installation Destination section during install, it shows the existing Windows partitions and the USB drive. I tried selecting the Custom option and couldn't figure out why any partitions I created didn't work. As it turns out, it's impossible for a beginner to figure out the Custom partitions. There was a link option called something like "Automatically Create These Partitions" I clicked that detected my unformatted space on the drive and automatically created the ~4 partitions that I needed within that space to progress with the installation.
3. I created a root password and opted to skip adding a user. It then blocked me after installation with a user/password login screen where I didn't know how to get past it. Eventually after multiple sheer guesses I just entered "root" as the username along with my root password, which finally let me in. At no point did it ever tell me to use the "root" username.
4. For some reason the desktop was zoomed in by 300% (WHY!?) and I had to go into the Display options to set it to 100%.
Everything was perfectly fine after that. These aren't major showstopping issues, but they are unnecessary barriers that force beginners to give up and go back to Windows. The installation process should be absolutely 100% intuitive and give actual information instead of assuming that users are willing to trawl through forum posts and watch install guides for answers.
I hear ya on that. Dual booting adds a layer of difficulty and Windows patches love to damage the GRUB bootloader randomly.
@Digital Scriptorium : Your tutorial is excellent. But how did you capture this whole thing so beautifully as it is done on VM and has been screen recorded. Can you please share the secret, please?
I'm using a Lenovo m720q desktop as the computer that I load the OS on. I'm controlling it and capturing the video using a pi-kvm v3.
Thanks mate.
No problem! Enjoy! :)
can you link your wallpaper? It's cool
Are you looking for the Windows XP 4k Bliss background or the Fedora one?
Thank you ❤️
No problem! Enjoy! :)
Thank you for this, btw can you give commands for the proper way to install the best multimedia stuff? Is it gstreamer? Been 1+ years since I used fedora and I have forgotten and I remember last time it was hassle.
I want to run all avc, hevc, av1, all anime, CGI, 1080p 4K videos without any lag, stuttering and screen tear. I will install mpv for that but the multimedia commands are very difficult for me to manage.
Sorry for the delayed response. Give this a shot which I admit I clipped out of ChatGPT :)
# Enable RPM Fusion repositories
sudo dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
# Update your system
sudo dnf update
# Install GStreamer plugins
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugin* gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-ugly
# Install additional codecs and libraries
sudo dnf install ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs libdvdcss x265 x264 libva-intel-driver libva-utils
# Install MPV
sudo dnf install mpv
# Install VA-API (optional)
sudo dnf install libva libva-intel-driver libva-utils
# Configure MPV (edit ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf)
echo -e "vo=gpu
hwdec=auto
profile=opengl-hq" > ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
cool
:)
Does it take a long time to show the tour window after i click "start using fedora linux" ? Its been a while and nothing happened.
*Fedora 40 installation*
I've noticed little quirks where things can act weird on certain hardware.
4:40 we have the same wallpaper,,, both downloading fedora LMFAO
Haha classic!
I cant free up my space in pendrive even though i delete everything.still shows available space 0
If you're making the bootable drive on windows you can try this utility to make sure the thumb drive doesn't have hidden partitions taking up space. hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
For nvidia and intel which one to download?
Are you saying if you have a hybrid device that has both? I believe (I haven't tested it) that you can select both to pull the drivers.
@Digital-Scriptorium yes I have both I want to install fedora but I don't know what to expect with drivers for intel and nvidia, can I install hybrid mode like in popos?
@@chr433 I think you should be fine to install both.
@Digital-Scriptorium I will try
@Digital-Scriptorium Thanks for the help!
Everything was smooth until I restart. I never got see the wallpaper again.. It was sooooooooooo slow.
Did you get to the text terminal interface instead of a desktop environment?
@@Digital-Scriptorium I went till login interface..
Can you please tell me which OS will be better for programming. Rather than windows.
@@Sunnyzn well I'm a big Debian fan.
@@Digital-Scriptorium thanks for the reply.