Installing Pardus 21.0

Pardus is a Linux distribution developed by TÜBİTAK (Türkiye's national R&D institute). Version 21.0 dropped on 21 August 2021. This is a screenshot-by-screenshot walkthrough of installing it. I went with the GNOME edition; if you prefer XFCE the installer flow is identical.

1. Pick the installer language.

2. You can boot Pardus Live to try it without installing — for this walkthrough we go with Install with the graphical installer.

3. Pick the OS language.

4. Pick your country (used for locale defaults).

5. Pick your keyboard layout.

6. Set the hostname.

7. Enter the user's full name.

8. Set the username (the account name you'll log in with).

9. Set the password.

10. Disk partitioning. Unless you have a specific layout in mind, pick Guided — use entire disk.

11. Pick the target disk.

12. Choose All files in one partition (simpler for a single-disk laptop).

13. Confirm the partition layout.

14. Confirm again to write the changes to disk.

15. Set up GRUB to boot Pardus.

Pick the disk to install GRUB on.

16. Done — installation complete.

That's the full walkthrough. A few screenshots of what Pardus 21 looks like once you're booted in: