Fedora Silverblue Desktop

Posted on October 27, 2025 • 3 min read • 433 words
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Set up a Fedora Silverblue Linux desktop as developer machine.
Install Nvidia drivers   Configure terminal   Create a Toolbox container   Install essential utilities   Install coding tools   Install go   Install uv   Install rustup   Install fnm   Install AWS CLI v2   Install GitHub CLI   Install shellcheck   Get dot files   Install Go executables   Install Rust executables   Set up NeoVim   Optional   Install pyenv   Install pipx and poetry  

This document covers how to set up an x64 Fedora Silverblue as a developer machine. It is geared towards Go, Python and JavaScript development.

All commands on this page should be executed from the user’s home directory.

Install Nvidia drivers  

Follow the official doc.

Configure terminal  

Download JetBrainsMono Nerd Font.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
unzip ~/Downloads/JetBrainsMono.zip -d ~/.local/share/fonts
rm ~/.local/share/fonts/*.txt ~/.local/share/fonts/*.md
fc-cache -f -v

Restart the Terminal app.

Go to Preference. Choose the Gruvbox color palette. Set font to JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Regular, size 16.

Create a Toolbox container  

toolbox create dev
toolbox enter dev

All subsequent commands run in this dev container.

Install essential utilities  

sudo dnf group install development-tools
sudo dnf install rlwrap jq fzf bat

Install coding tools  

sudo dnf install vim-enhanced neovim ripgrep luarocks tmux pre-commit

Install go  

sudo dnf install golang

Install uv  

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | UV_NO_MODIFY_PATH=1 sh

Install rustup  

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Install fnm  

fnm is a Node versions manager that doesn’t cause a noticeable slow down at activation. The CLI interface is largely similar to that of nvm.

export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
cargo install fnm

Install AWS CLI v2  

sudo dnf install awscli2

Install GitHub CLI  

For authentication against GitHub, the most convenient option is to use the GitHub CLI.

sudo dnf install gh

Login immediately.

gh auth login

Install shellcheck  

sudo dnf install shellcheck

Get dot files  

mkdir -p ~/.config
git clone https://github.com/kxue43/dot-files ~/.config/dot-files
~/.config/dot-files/set-up.sh --with=untracked

Restart the Terminal app so that Bash start-up files take effect.

Install Go executables  

go install github.com/kxue43/cli-toolkit/cmd/toolkit@latest
go install github.com/kxue43/cli-toolkit/cmd/toolkit-assume-role@latest
go install github.com/kxue43/cli-toolkit/cmd/toolkit-serve-static@latest
go install github.com/kxue43/cli-toolkit/cmd/toolkit-show-md@latest
go install mvdan.cc/sh/v3/cmd/shfmt@latest
go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc@latest
go install golang.org/x/pkgsite
go install github.com/air-verse/air@latest

Install Rust executables  

cargo install --locked tree-sitter-cli

Set up NeoVim  

git clone https://github.com/kxue43/nvim-files ~/.config/nvim && nvim

After plugin installation finishes, run :MasonInstallAll to install all LSPs and :TSInstallAll to install all tree-sitter parsers.

Run :checkhealth to see if there are any problems.

Optional  

Install pyenv  

pyenv is a CLI tool written in shell scripts. It installs multiple versions of Python by downloading and compiling them from C source code. First we install various tools that are needed to compile Python interpreters.

sudo dnf update vte-profile  # https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/390
sudo dnf install zlib-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel readline-devel sqlite \
sqlite-devel openssl-devel xz xz-devel libffi-devel findutils tk-devel libzstd-devel

Now install pyenv via git clone into the ~/.pyenv folder.

git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
pushd ~/.pyenv && src/configure && make -C src && popd

Install pipx and poetry  

sudo dnf install pipx
pipx ensurepath
pipx install poetry
pipx inject poetry poetry-plugin-export
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