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Honestly, if your running install is too far gone and you can't delete some files, just go and boot a LiveCD, get your disks mounted, clean some files, then restart. You'll be totally fine.
Well if none of the solutions everyone has proposed, I guess I'll just wipe everything and install Fedora Silverblue to avoid future problems like this one..
That's a bit extreme. Just deleting files in a Live environment is super simple, and saves a big headache.
Well I'd love to be able to just do this, especially because every install is a big hassle on my Surface Go 1. Even booting from USB is, I don't know why exactly.. But what should I do once I manage to boot on the live USB?
Your disks should already be mounted, if not encrypted. If they aren't, just go to whatever disk or partition manager you like, find the volumes, mount them, and go about finding large files you don't need and delete them. Clear up a couple GB, then reboot your system as normal, and go about doing more cleanup until you're happy. Super quick and easy.