your blueprint
The Pro
You bill by the hour. The OS should be invisible.
- base
- Fedora Workstation
- desktop
- GNOME: boring on purpose
- gaming
- Steam exists here too, after hours
- escape plan
- containers ate your Windows needs years ago
- terminal
- Ptyxis + toolbox
- bonus
- Podman, toolchains, zero drama
second opinion · Ubuntu LTS, if your employer's tooling assumes it.
What will still annoy you: GNOME will remove a feature you liked. There is an extension. There is always an extension.
your setup prompt
Paste this into the LLM of your choice. It contains your hardware, your skill level and your blueprint. The AI walks you through the switch, one step at a time, and debugs with you when something breaks.
This is the generic The Pro blueprint. Take the quiz to personalize it with your hardware, your Windows anchors, your terminal comfort, and to get a copy-paste setup prompt that makes an AI install it with you.