Things to do after installing Fedora 28

If you are using Fedora and thing what do after installation to get a better desktop experience then this post is for you, one can run a system update, to play multimedia files can install media codecs or enhance gnome experience using installing Gnome Tweak tool. If you are using fedora 24 onwards like Fedora 25, Fedora 26, Fedora 27 or Fedora 28 I don’t think you will face any problem .

First Open Terminal using menu or press Ctrl + Alt + T, now run the commands given below

For system Update run

sudo dnf update
or
dnf update

Install Gnome Tweak Tool

dnf install gnome-tweak-tool
or
sudo dnf install gnome-tweak-tool

Install Multimedia Codecs

dnf -y install gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld ffmpeg gstreamer-ffmpeg
or
sudo dnf -y install gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld ffmpeg gstreamer-ffmpeg

Adding RPM fusion Repository

RPM Fusion is a software repository that provides various free and non-free software’s which was not shipped with the Fedora distribution like VLC Player.

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-26.noarch.rpm
or
sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-26.noarch.rpm

Install VLC media player and a Launcher called Docky

dnf install vlc dnf install docky
or
sudo dnf install vlc sudo dnf install docky

Want to enjoy other Desktop environments like KDE Plasma, XFCE, mate ….

dnf install @mate-desktop dnf install @kde-desktop dnf install @xfce-desktop dnf install @cinnamon-desktop dnf install unzip dnf install VirtualBox
or
sudo dnf install @mate-desktop sudo dnf install @kde-desktop sudo dnf install @xfce-desktop sudo dnf install @cinnamon-desktop sudo dnf install unzip sudo dnf install VirtualBox

Install Steam

dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo dnf -y install steam
or
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo sudo dnf -y install steam

Stacer System monitor

wget https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer/releases/download/v1.0.8/stacer-1.0.8_x64.rpm dnf install stacer-1.0.8_x64.rpm
or
sudo wget https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer/releases/download/v1.0.8/stacer-1.0.8_x64.rpm sudo dnf install stacer-1.0.8_x64.rpm