Why I Install Fedora THIS WAY (and Why You're Doing It Wrong).
I formatted Fedora three times before finding the right setup. Because the default "install" button leads to a machine you can't really manage in production: useless snapshots, broken rollbacks, and "full disk encryption" that isn't effective.
In this video, we install an enterprise-level Fedora on the Dell Pro Max, inspired by the openSUSE standard—the setup I use at work as a software engineer.
🎯 What we'll see:
✅ Professional partition layout (/boot/efi, /boot, encrypted root)
✅ LUKS2—industry-standard encryption
✅ BTRFS subvolumes designed for snapshots and atomic rollbacks
✅ The NVMe RAID trap in the BIOS that blocks installation
✅ Dual-boot with Windows while maintaining the existing EFI
📺 This is the first episode of the Fedora from zero to hero series. Upcoming videos include: BTRFS management and snapshots with Snapper, atomic rollbacks, optimization, Podman, and everything you need to transform Fedora into a truly high-performance enterprise workstation.
📖 The complete and always up-to-date configuration is on my blog: https://meltingbots.com
📌 SEE ALSO:
▶ The PC on which we're installing Fedora (Dell Pro Max): [https://studio.youtube.com/video/lthr...]
▶ Fedora from zero to hero playlist: [https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/P...]
🔗 USEFUL LINKS:
🌎 Official website: https://meltingbots.com
💬 Telegram group: https://t.me/+zzdNppE5-jk2YzY0
⌨️ DEVICE:
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🖥 BUILD:
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⏲ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro: Dell Pro Max and professional Fedora setup
01:08 - Downloading the ISO via BitTorrent + Media Writer
02:55 - BIOS: NVMe RAID, Secure Boot, boot order
04:04 - LUKS2 installation and encryption
08:50 - BTRFS subvolumes: the definitive setup
12:13 - First boot and initial configuration
12:57 - Next episodes in the series
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