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Desktop Setup

Windows boot missing after installing linux

  • Boot to windows 11 installation media
  • Shift F10
    • disk part
    • list disk
    • list vol
  • identify FAT32 linux boot partition
    • select vol 3
    • assign letter=S
    • exit
    • dir S:\EFI (verify contents)
    • dir C:\Windows (verify windows contents)
    • bcdboot C:\Windows /s S: /f UEFI (create boot files)
    • dir S:\EFI (verify contents again)
  • delete duplicate fedora boot entry
    • boot back into fedora
    • sudo efibootmgr -v (show boot entries)
    • sudo efibootmgr -b 0003 -B (delete duplicate entry)
  • bootctl status (bring up boot information)


sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg generate grub config file
grep menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
 verify (windows should be present)
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

regenerate grub config file

nano /etc/fstab

//monty.nas/data  /mnt/data  cifs  credentials=/home/N/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,nofail,x-systemd.automount,_netdev 0 0
//monty.nas/media  /mnt/media  cifs  credentials=/home/N/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,nofail,x-systemd.automount,_netdev 0 0


chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials


Youtube in VLC

grep -r codeready /etc/

confirm the name for the next command

"codeready-builder-for-rhel-10-x86_64-rpms"

subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-10-x86_64-rpms

enable codeready linux builder repository

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-10.noarch.rpm

install EPEL

dnf install vlc -y

try installing a package

dnf install python3-pip -y

install python

python3 -m pip install --user yt-dlp

install pip via python (not yet ported from EPEL 9)

python3 -m yt_dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tjgm_6LLk

download youtube video via yt-dlp

python3 -m yt_dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tjgm_6LLk" -o - | vlc -

play via vlc

sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm

install rpmfusion

sudo dnf install -y --allowerasing ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs

install ffmpeg
--allowerasing to overwrite old files

AMD Freesync Drivers

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1fo8lrr/why_mint/loqxn8e/

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