Download Linux Fedora trivial

How to download Linux for use in a virtual machine, live session or for installation. These instructions are for the Fedora Linux distribution. (But you can use any distribution you want in Linux.)

Go to the Get Fedora web site
This is a web site set up by the Fedora Project just for getting or downloading Fedora Linux. To get to it go to https://getfedora.org/ in your web browser.

Go to the Fedora Workstation page
Select the Workstation icon on the web site. It's the link to the Fedora Workstation page. That should bring you to https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/.

Go to the download page
Follow the link that says "Download now" at the top of the page. (There's one at the bottom too, you can follow that one if you want to.) This should take you to https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/.

Start the download
Visit the link that says "Download" at the top of the page. If you noticed there are other download links on the page and you want to download one of those instead you can if you want to. Linux will still work.

If you have a 32 bit computer such as a very old PC or a netbook you have to download the "32-bit 1.3GB Live image" instead.

After you visit the link that says "Download" you should be sent to Get Fedora's download page and a download of the Linux installation image should begin within a couple seconds.

I would like to tell you how to use encryption to secure your download (verify) but unfortunately setting up PGP/GPG on Windows or OS X is too much work, more than installing Linux even. If it helps, at this time the Get Fedora checksum for Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso is a91eca2492ac84909953ef27040f9b61d8525f7ec5e89f6430319f49f9f823fe.

Wait for the download to finish
It's a 1.3 GB download so it should take 1 - 1.5 hours if you have high speed internet, depending on the speed of your connection.

After it's done you can then use the image in a virtual machine or run it as a live session or installation.