18 Things has to be done after installing Red Hat 8.x as a desktop server

1.Xtreme Download Manager - Download the latest version and run the script

https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/#downloads

https://github.com/subhra74/xdm/

2.Transmission

dnf -y install epel-release

dnf repolist

dnf install transmission-gtk

3.VLC

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm

dnf install vlc

4.LibreOffice - https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

5.KVM

dnf module install virt

dnf install virt-install virt-viewer libguestfs-tools

dnf install virt-manager

systemctl enable libvirtd.service

systemctl start libvirtd.service

systemctl status libvirtd.service

Ref: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-kvm-on-centos-8-headless-server/

6.Make NTFS support

dnf install epel-release

dnf install ntfs-3g

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt

7.Install new tools in RHEL8

https://www.simplylinuxfaq.com/p/major-differences-between-rhel-8-and-7.html

8.Wifi drivers

lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'

dnf install dkms kernel-headers kernel-devel

wget https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

dnf install git

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git -b rtw88

make

make install

9.Cockpit

dnf install cockpit

systemctl enable cockpit.socket

systemctl start cockpit

10.Cockpit modules - https://docs.centos.org/en-US/centos/install-guide/Composer/

dnf install lorax-composer composer-cli cockpit-composer

systemctl enable lorax-composer.socket

systemctl enable cockpit.socket

systemctl start lorax-composer

systemctl start cockpit.socket

11.Nodejs

dnf install nodejs

12.New features

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 using the new packaging, modularity, and appstream features.

Upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 using new tools.

Perform integrated file system and volume management using Stratis.

Use Cockpit for system management.

Create system images with Composer.

Configure Identity Management using authselect.

Understand the Wayland graphical display server.

Deploy containers using the new integrated OCI runtime and tools.

Configure firewall rules that use the new NFT back end.

13.Ansible

dnf install ansible

14.Wine - works for something but not all

dnf groupinstall 'Development Tools'

dnf localinstall http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/isdn4k-utils-3.2-99.el7.x86_64.rpm

dnf install wine* --skip-broken

https://tecadmin.net/install-wine-centos8/

15.Gnome-tweaks

dnf install gnome-tweaks

16.https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/download-app#desktopAppDownloadregion

dnf install teams-1.3.00.16851-1.x86_64.rpm

17.dnf install handbrake

HandBrakeCLI -i Jarugandi\ full\ movie\ in\ tamil\ -\ YouTube.mkv -o Jaru.mp4 -e x264 -q 20 -B 160

18. Remove older kernels

dnf remove --oldinstallonly --setopt installonly_limit=2 kernel

grubby --set-default "/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64"