Setting up Fedora 42 for my dev setup

Why Fedora?

• Fedora has struck a nice balance between good defaults, reasonably updated library as well as stability.

• It lets you be on the cutting edge as much as you want which can be a lot or nothing, that's up-to you.

My setup

• I like a certain mix of fonts, themes and apps to feel fully productive. This list is present only to act as an inspiration and a reminder for me :D

Apps:

• Zed

• Cursor

• Ghostty

• Obsidian

• 1Password

• yakk/Bruno - postman alternative

• Brave/firefox

• Bazaar - app store.

• LocalSend - for sharing files across devices

CLI Tooling:

• atuin

• starship

• ast-grep

• ripgrep

• git-delta

• fzf

• mise - https://mise.jdx.dev/getting-started.html

• jq

• codex

• claude code

• opencode

• delta - git pager (https://dandavison.github.io/delta/installation.html)

Installing Mise:

sudo dnf copr enable jdxcode/mise
sudo dnf install mise

SSH Config:

Git config

Gnome Extensions:

• ulauncher

• Brightness control using ddcutil

Firefox extensions