Fedora 43 cosmic spin post-install notes

Once I’d installed the base fedora 43 Workstation with Cosmic Desktop, I was super-chuffed with the whole experience, and how the overall install went. tl;dr - Everything is working seamlessly. Here’s what I installed, and changed and why. This is as much a note for myself, as it is perhaps for you! 0.5) General config - non-oss codecs, and repos. CLI apps: Eza (COPR repo), tldr (man sub), trash-cli, bat, spf (cli file manger), fish (shell). ...

December 6, 2025 · 1 min · 112 words · Me

My thoughts on Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin and my ThinkPad X1

I recently - as in two days ago - bought a ThinkPad X1 off of eBay, and decided to try Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin out on it. I want to sell my MacBookPro M1 as I rarely use it. I find that I’m using Linux more and more these days. I have my iPhone and iPad Pro for everything Apple, so the MBP is relatively superfluous in the grand scheme of things. I still have my work ‘spare’ laptop which runs OpenSuse Tumbleweed (TW), but it has a truly terrible keyboard and screen. This Dell has now been superseded by the 16Gb/512Gb/2.8k OLED screen. Yea, welcome to #FirstWorldProblems - lols. ...

December 6, 2025 · 3 min · 507 words · Me