Okay I’ll do that
I’m trying to use my only USB key that is over 8Go but It’s readonly and even with diskpart in cmd It’s impossible to formate it
Is this the same usb disk you where using to install fedora? It should not be read-only from writing an iso image to it. Have you tried reformating the disk using Rufus?
I’ll try again using Rufus, and if nothing I’ll see tomorrow…
Still loading, I’ll keep you in touch. It’s a complete NONSENSE that Bitlocker is enabled for familly edition, it was NEVER the case before.
Shit.
I just hope I won’t have to buy a new SSD because of this
It doesn’t work, even when I selected the efi file… (bootx64.efi)
I’m sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can at least boot back into windows now; and leave this problem for a fresh day.
Well you should have tried a different USB drive before you proceed but its a bit too late now. The self test is there for a reason.
A spare computer or laptop next to you during install would be helpful in cases where you need to reflash the bootable USB.
If tour laptop has a fingerprint reader, depending in the model, it may or may not work.
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You can install brave, just use dnf-3 instead of dnf when adding the repo. Otherwise all other commands are the same. Fedora 41 upgraded dnf from 3 to 5, and 5 doesn’t have the add repo command. It is still backwards compatible though
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I hope so… I’ll keep the thread updated
I will try to boot with a new usb drive today, hope it will work
Everything works fine, finally ! I’m so happy
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Congrats!
How did you do it? What where the steps?
What was giving you trouble in the end?
PS: I got late to the conversation, but a good tip would be to try Fedora (or whatever other OS you’re not familiar with) in a VM before going all in. Just to get used to how it works first. Not that it would help too much with the installation process, that always has the potential to be a pain.
Thanks ! I’ll try to tell you what happened with my unperfect english.
There were essentially two problems :
- My (stupidity) lack of awareness
- A sh*tty USB Drive
I got a brand new laptop with Windows 11 on it, and as soon finished Windows installation I took my USB Drive (the sh*tty USB that has 8Go and installed Fedora 41 on it, I disabled secure bios in boot options and tried to test the media before lauching Fedora → test failed and I wasn’t sure if this was from my USB or from Windows that didn’t like I was trying to boot into an other OS.
So I took a less sh*tty USB that has no more than 4Go and installed a new time Fedora on it by using Rufus instead of Fedora Writer because I heard that doing with Rufus prevents the test failing.
After that I tried a new time the test and it was successful → Fedora’s starting ! But it wasn’t installed yet on my laptop’s SSD (which is my only one SSD btw, I’m just a student 
).
Before installing Fedora, It’s asking you to choose your partitions (SSD, etc.), so I naively selected everything to erase, in order to leave space for Fedora to be able to install fully on my SSD.
99% of the time if you don’t want to Dual Boot and just have Fedora as your main OS, this works, you just have to select your main partition and It’s okay (and this is exactly what I did, I just followed instructions), every installation turorial showed it also.
However I noticed something that was weird but I didn’t expect that it was a bad idea to continue : inside my SSD partition, the name of its main partition was called “Bitlocker” : I know what Bitlocker is but in my mind it wasn’t that much a trouble because It’s supposed to be disabled by default in Windows classic editions.
So I selected it and proceed to install → error occurred → reboot on Windows → “Oh, black screen with big message error, crap” → panic because as an unexperienced user, I thought that my SSD may be entirely corrupt and nothing can be done because I literally tried to write over an encrypted (or partially encrypted ?) partition → as people here recommended me (thank you again @seize ), it was a good idea to try to reinstall Windows but to install windows you need a USB that has more than 8Go and the only USB I had that has more than 8Go was my sh*tty USB I have no trust since this.
I tried to reinstall Windows with this sh*tty USB but it didn’t work but I wasn’t sure if this was from my USB or just because my laptop is broken (always more panic and insomnia). So I had a very bad night and today someone of my family lent me his USB key so I tried with this one and the installation was successful.
Finally I disabled the Windows settings that @seize recommended me and tried a new time to install Fedora → No more Bitlocker in partitions → Fedora installed successfully !
Sorry a new time for my English.
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I also have two questions for those who may know :
- Is there any easy way to use VPN on Linux Fedora (for example Proton VPN or AdGuardVPN), because it doesn’t seem there’s an app for Fedora on their website
- How can I decrease scrolling speed ? It’s very fast and It’s kind of annoying. I decreased that inside Firefox in about:config by editing mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y (100 by defaut, and I set 25) but I’d like to decrease speed for all my environment
Thank you !
As mentioned above
I’m not sure about Adgaurdvpn though.
There should also be a mouse sensitivity settings page (including scroll speed) in the system settings.
Edit: after a quick search it seems i’m misremembering. Gnome (fedoras default desktop environment) doesn’t seem to natively support scroll wheel speed adjustment (there are work arounds). I forgot because i haven’t used Gnome in a couple years.
Edit 2: added Link to article about changing scroll speed on Linux.
Thanks ! And sorry for Proton though, I must have forgotten it after the big “issue” I had yesterday… I’ll check your link on scroll too !
Edit : about your scroll guide, it needs apt packages which is for DPKG-distributions… 
It doesn’t seem to be adapted to Fedora
Sorry. Yes the guide uses DPKG (APT) for demonstration purpises; however the im-wheel package should also be available in the standard fedora remositories.
How to install IMwheel on Fedora
sudo dnf install imwheel
Pretty much everything else in the linked article is either options for the imwheel command. Which can be read about using man; or standard GNU/Linux tools (the only exception to this is zenity).
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I tried to follow your guide and I managed to install imwheel.
I typed :
nano ~/.imwheelrc
However after that I was anxious about editing the value as I actually don’t know what is the value of the “speed” itself… so I’m not sure about what I have to write in nano.