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My experience with Fedora:

1. Copy to thumb drive
2. Find out the thumb drive wasn't good enough
3.copied to another thumb drive
4.Successfully booted
5.start installation
6.Shit forgot to partition my NTFS drives
7.Back to Windows to do it
8.back to install again
9.Start installation, setup partitioning
10. Didnt notice that my EFI partition wasn't detected
11.Fedora tries to install its bootloader in God knows what place
12.bootloader install fail
13.reboot comp
14. Missing operating system
15. Spend my whole fucking night repairing the boot partition and the problem was a fuckin missing BOOT flag
16. No grub
17.spent another decade trying to fix it
18. Give up and get some sleep

Probably Fedora will have to wait for another day, tiring experience

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  • 0
    I got it working in macbook

    It took me few attempts to set the keyboard (actually a fedora guy and friend did it)
  • 0
    Late 2014. Didnt have any problems either
    But the key mapping (@ was where | and ~ was miscplaced too)

    Well, I had to install the wifi (thanks broadcomp for being private drivers)
    With tethering
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    Haven't Fedora but a good guess:
    - Remove all NTFS-Partitions
    - In BIOS: No fastboot; No legacymode/biosmode; OS-Type to 'Other OSes' instead of 'Windows'; Disable Secureboot
    - Start GParted on Feadora-Stick (in UEFI-Mode)
    - Ensure you have a GPT-Table, not M$DOS
    - Create Fat-Partition for EFI
    - Create Unformatted Partition for Grub (~30MB) and add flag grub_boot
    - Create your Linux Swap and Partitions

    - Do your Feadora installation
    - After installation, try reboot
    - If successfull youre done otherwise:
    - Start Feadora-Livestick again (UEFI-Mode)
    - Mount your file-system
    - Check if Grub-efi64 or similar is installed
    - Mount EFI-Partition to your sys-mount/boot/efi/
    - If no launcher exists google for some Grub-Efi-Install command
    - Update-Grub
    - Check bootorder in BIOS
    - Enjoy!

    Did this for Manjaro on a clean HDD, it'll will work like a charm once you did it.
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    @LinusCDE I was already on GPT with AN EFI partition for Windows and bios options disabled accordingly. The problem was the Fedora bootloader, for some reason it always fails to install
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    @TheAnimatrix Sorry to hear that. That seems kinda weird.
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    @mrtnrdl I was trying to find macbook or os x or something in layout but in another menu for the keyboard they have english - Macintosh so all keys are normal now
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    Installed it and it just worked 😓
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