Well, the Fedora installer is surely counterintuitive as the "continue" button is replaced with "Done" and moved to top left instead of being in the bottom right. I was bamboozled when I saw this first. There is no back button. You need to click on "done" to get back. This is perfectly in line with stock Gnome which tries to make simple things as hard as possible.
Probably not trying again. Maybe Fedora would work if the installer is allowed to wipe the entire disk which I am definitely not looking forward to.
Installing fedora shouldn't take more than 5-15 min depending on the system. Calamares takes care of the setup for you.
fedora doesn't use Calamares it uses its own installer called Anaconda
Hmm, that's a brain fart moment. Regardless @rootyme try it without manual partitioning, if you're interested in snapshots then look into the subvolumes. Dual boot is always a risk, better to install on separate disks if you can.
I have never installed any Linux distro with auto partitioning. It's important for me to have the control over what gets installed and where. I am not not particularly new to installing Linux. I never lost any data or ran into corruption while installing any Linux distro since my very first attempt years back. This is precisely because I never let any installer touch anything other than what and how I specified. I have successfully installed Arch from scratch (Using command line) on my very first attempt.
The only risk I can think of is a corrupt bootloader. In that case, one can boot from Windows USB and fix it easily with CMD/Startup Repair. I personally never ran into any issues even with Arch.
Not a complete noob, only somewhat. You've not changed the default btrfs option, which your partitions clearly aren't, you haven't typed any mount points into the input boxes that say "Mount Point". The installer even says on the very first line that you've not define any mount points. At minimum you need /boot/efi and / . I tried to install fedora just to check if a distro with so much backing and dev support has a broken/buggy installer, and that wasn't the case, managed to configure the partitions on the first try, and btw I don't use arch, I use the noob option, Ubuntu.
I will boot into the Fedora live session once again but I did specify the mount points by first selecting the EFI partition and then clicking on /boot/efi from the drop down menu. Every time I tried this, the installer showed this error (The one I am attaching). I was under the impression that selecting from the drop down meant the same thing as typing it manually. Maybe I was wrong on this. So I will type it now as you said and revert back with the result. To be honest, I only have some surface level knowledge on Linux like installation, setting up and a bit of terminal. I am excited to learn it.
I am actually trying to learn Linux while being on Linux.
They are likely not same, from the installer help section (top section in your screenshot ) it looks to me the + option creates new mount points from unallocated (unformatted) space, but to assign mount points to existing partitions you need to type, and select update.I will boot into the Fedora live session once again but I did specify the mount points by first selecting the EFI partition and then clicking on /boot/efi from the drop down menu. Every time I tried this, the installer showed this error (The one I am attaching). I was under the impression that selecting from the drop down meant the same thing as typing it manually. Maybe I was wrong on this. So I will type it now as you said and revert back with the result. To be honest, I only have some surface level knowledge on Linux like installation, setting up and a bit of terminal. I am excited to learn it.
I am actually trying to learn Linux while being on Linux.
You're correct. I actually feel dumb right now ngl. The thought of typing it crossed my mind many times but I brushed it off thinking it wouldn't work. It did. The solution to my problem was just typing "/boot/efi" and clicking on "update settings". Thank you!
I was speaking from personal experience with laptops. Switchable PCI-E components like network cards and especially GPUs not behaving as expected or not properly switching ON/OFF has been a problem multiple times. Hours of tracking with journalctl and trying to fix was pita early on. So I made my peace with windows and nuked it. Stayed with fedora and if I have a itch to try other distro or want to get a package that's not readily available on other distro, distrobox is my fix these days.
This, my qualms are with that cursed disk selector having BoW checkbox with grey disk images. Always have to double check.
I was part of an organising team for a local Linux awareness event in 2004 and have been hearing this phrase since those times
Oh, how I wish. At the same time I must mention that Windows 7 had one of the most aesthetically pleasing User Interface designs I've ever seen. Linux distros need more of such spectacular UI; not the they don't exist, but I wish more distros begin looking better. Bodhi Linux for example looks terrifying (nothing against the creators and maintainers).
Honestly, same. I mostly resort to the default storage settings because the storage one can be confusing at times. Thankfully, I somehow managed to dual-boot but wouldn't really risk it if it were anyone else's computer lol
