1: Why do I have everything from my home directory on my desktop, and how do I clear them and only add what *I* want to it?

2: Display settings: how do I mirror the second display with the primary (not an option in display settings)

3: Why does Fedora insist on calling me liveuser, when my username is jim (same question for $HOME)?

4) Why are the common X11 apps missing, and how do I install them all in one step?

5) What is the package manager and how do I use it?

6) My system's name is set to localhost-live. Where in /etc do I set the hostname in Fedora?

7) How do I switch to Xfce?

Probably (a lot) more questions later....

Not much later...

8) How do I add virtual desktops? I assume it'll be the usual Ctrl-Shift-{Left or Right) to switch between them.

Thanks

Never mind. I'm changing to another distro.

Thanks, anyways.

it looks like you booted a live cd, and did not install the OS to your hard drive.
You can find answers on the net easily (at least a few of them), for example: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...ge-management/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce

You can find several spins here:
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/#home

As posted the default live DVD username is liveuser and hostname is localhost-live.
The package installer from the command line is called dnf. It is basically similar to other package manager with lots of help online.

You're right. I just installed Godot 4.something, and its path is /usr/bin/godot, and /usr/bin, according to a quick 'df .', is /dev/mapper/live-rw.

Still looking for other systems with Xfce. Too many issues right off the bat. No zsh, vim but no gvim (meaning I have to compile it myself, which I don't mind, but there are so many options, and the last time I did it on Slackware, it had gvim, but gvim ignored the font I'd set and I had to configure it every time), not mirroring displays and not having the option in display settings, and so on.

We'll see....

Thanks

I believe you can install gvim i.e. sudo dnf install vim-X11 and zsh as well i.e. sudo dnf install zsh.