I have done it, my Fedora 39 project has begun, just not on the laptop I thought it would…
On my recent post “My Laptops / Computers” I stated I had four currently working laptop computers and I expected to install “Fedora Linux” onto my present Linux laptop, swapping out it’s present installation of Ubuntu Linux for the brand new installation of Fedora Linux. Well at the time, which was of course only five days ago, this statement was as far as I was concerned correct, but I hadn’t allowed for the computer skills of my eldest son Jonathan.
You see I did have another laptop which I had bought cheap second hand on eBay, the problem was that not long after buying this laptop I tried to install a new OS onto it and I must have made a big mistake somewhere because I ended up with it stuck, locked in an “inescapable” loop, well inescapable for me anyway 😏
First things first I guess I should let you know what laptop my Fedora try out is going to be on, the laptop in question, as I said bought cheaply second hand on eBay and then “ruined” by me is a “Lenovo IdeaPad 120S-14IAP 14″ Laptop” with an Intel Celeron processor N3350 dual core, it has 4 GB RAM and a 32 GB eMMC storage device and a 14 inch screen.
Not a particularly impressive machine I guess but I would think ample to try out Fedora Linux on, anyway as far as I was concerned it was irreversibly locked into an inescapable boot cycle, but Jonathan had other ideas, he played around with it for a while and yes he eventually managed to get it to a point where it would go into it’s boot menu and could be started from a USB.
Now it was up to me, so using my Chromebook I found and downloaded the ISO file for Fedora 39, I was going to create a bootable USB using the “Chromebook Recovery Utility”, which is designed to create bootable USB’s to recover your Chromebook of course but can also be used to create other bootable USB drives as well.
Quick note here in case you wanted to do the same thing, the “Chromebook Recovery Utility” doesn’t recognise ISO files so if like me you miss this bit of info in the instructions the file won’t appear for you to select, but don’t worry it’s quickly fixable, just rename the file from an ISO file to a BIN file and it will work 😁
Once the USB drive is created you can put it into your target device and boot up from it, it should give you the option to run Fedora from the USB drive or to install Fedora onto your laptop / desktop computer, I chose to install. The install took a little while as you would expect and there were a few little setup choices once it was installed but it all went smoothly with no problems 😁
When ordinary Fedora is installed it is running the Gnome desktop and I realised I wanted the KDE Plasma Desktop which I have on my Ubuntu laptop as I am used to it and I also really like it. So next I went to the Fedora Spins page for the “Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop“, downloaded it and followed the instructions to install it, upon a reboot I now have the option to use the KDE Plasma Desktop.
I next downloaded and installed the Google Chrome browser which is my favourite browser to use and set it to be my primary browser. I also installed some of my favourite Linux apps, Darktable, GIMP and Krita amongst others but haven’t really had a chance to use them properly yet.
All of this was done at the weekend, it’s now Tuesday and I’ve been using only my new Fedora laptop since then, so far things have gone smoothly and I’m quite enjoying the experience up to now, in fact I’m writing this post on my Fedora laptop 😁
So I still have my Ubuntu laptop intact but now I also have a fully functioning Fedora laptop as well, I will try to keep you informed on my further adventures with Fedora in future posts.
But for now I will say bye bye and please, Be Well, Be Safe, Be Happy 😊💕🙏
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