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Fedora 44 Workstation

Tested install, upgrade, post-install, gaming, dev environment, and hardening on Fedora 44 Workstation.

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Fedora 44 Workstation
  1. 1 Install Fedora 44 Linux Step-by-Step with Screenshots Part 1 of 20

    Install Fedora 44 Linux Step-by-Step with Screenshots

    Step-by-step Fedora 44 Workstation install with real screenshots: download ISO, boot the Anaconda Web UI, partition Btrfs, and finish in GNOME 50.

    9 min read·May 2026
  2. 2 Install Flatpak and Flathub Apps on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 2 of 20

    Install Flatpak and Flathub Apps on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    Fedora ships flatpak in the base install and turns on the Flathub remote on first boot of Workstation. Yet most users still install everything through dnf…

    7 min read·May 2026
  3. 3 Configure GNOME Tweaks and Extensions on Fedora 44 Part 3 of 20

    Configure GNOME Tweaks and Extensions on Fedora 44

    GNOME 50 lands on Fedora 44 with a smoother Activities overview, refined Adwaita styling, and a quietly reshuffled toolkit for customizing the desktop. The biggest organisational…

    7 min read·May 2026
  4. 4 Install KDE Plasma 6.6 on Fedora 44 Workstation Part 4 of 20

    Install KDE Plasma 6.6 on Fedora 44 Workstation

    KDE Plasma 6.6 landed in late April 2026 and reached Fedora 44 the same week the new release shipped. It is the most polished Plasma 6…

    7 min read·May 2026
  5. 5 Configure firewalld on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42: Zones, Services, Rich Rules Part 5 of 20

    Configure firewalld on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42: Zones, Services, Rich Rules

    firewalld is the default firewall on Fedora, Server and Workstation alike. It abstracts nftables (and iptables on older releases) behind a zone model that maps cleanly…

    7 min read·May 2026
  6. 6 Setup Btrfs Snapshots with Snapper on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 6 of 20

    Setup Btrfs Snapshots with Snapper on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    Fedora Workstation uses Btrfs as the default root filesystem. A stock Anaconda install creates two subvolumes: root (mounted at /) and home (mounted at /home). On…

    8 min read·May 2026
  7. 7 Install Podman Compose on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 7 of 20

    Install Podman Compose on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    Podman has been the default container runtime on Fedora Server and Workstation for years. Podman Compose is the matching multi-container orchestrator: write a single compose.yaml, run…

    6 min read·May 2026
  8. 8 Install Distrobox and Toolbox on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 8 of 20

    Install Distrobox and Toolbox on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    Distrobox and Toolbox solve the same problem in different ways: they let you run a different Linux distribution inside a container, with full home-directory integration, audio,…

    6 min read·May 2026
  9. 9 Setup WireGuard VPN on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 9 of 20

    Setup WireGuard VPN on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    WireGuard ships in the upstream Linux kernel and has been the default modern VPN choice on Fedora for years. The tooling is small (one userspace package,…

    8 min read·May 2026
  10. 10 How to Upgrade to Fedora 44 from Fedora 43 Part 10 of 20

    How to Upgrade to Fedora 44 from Fedora 43

    Upgrade Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 with dnf system-upgrade: tested commands, real output, full cleanup, and troubleshooting for the offline transaction flow.

    10 min read·May 2026
  11. 11 What is New in Fedora 44 Part 11 of 20

    What is New in Fedora 44

    Fedora 44 ships GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, kernel 7.0, NTSYNC for Wine, Python 3.14, GCC 16.1, Helm 4, Ruby 4.0, MariaDB 11.8, and Nix in…

    12 min read·May 2026
  12. 12 Things to Do After Installing Fedora 44 Workstation Part 12 of 20

    Things to Do After Installing Fedora 44 Workstation

    The ultimate 2026 post-install guide for Fedora 44 Workstation. 43 steps covering modern terminals (Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm, Kitty, Tabby), AI coding CLIs (Claude Code, Gemini CLI,…

    15 min read·May 2026
  13. 13 Fedora 44 vs Ubuntu 26.04: Detailed Comparison Part 13 of 20

    Fedora 44 vs Ubuntu 26.04: Detailed Comparison

    Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS share kernel 7.0, glibc 2.43, Python 3.14, systemd 259, and GNOME 50. Everything else (package manager, gaming stack, support window,…

    12 min read·May 2026
  14. 14 Enable RPM Fusion and Install Multimedia Codecs on Fedora 44 Part 14 of 20

    Enable RPM Fusion and Install Multimedia Codecs on Fedora 44

    Enable RPM Fusion free and nonfree on Fedora 44, swap ffmpeg-free for full ffmpeg, install the multimedia and sound-and-video groups, and enable Cisco OpenH264 - real…

    7 min read·May 2026
  15. 15 DNF5 Cheatsheet & Tips for Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 15 of 20

    DNF5 Cheatsheet & Tips for Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    If you opened a terminal on a fresh Fedora install lately, you ran DNF5 whether you knew it or not. The legacy dnf binary is gone…

    13 min read·May 2026
  16. 16 Set Up Python, Node.js, Go, Rust on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 16 of 20

    Set Up Python, Node.js, Go, Rust on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    A clean Fedora install is already half a developer workstation. The toolchain group (GCC, Make, Git, kernel headers) is one DNF transaction away, Python ships current,…

    11 min read·May 2026
  17. 17 SELinux Survival Guide for Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 17 of 20

    SELinux Survival Guide for Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    The first time SELinux blocks something on a fresh Fedora install, the temptation is to run setenforce 0 and move on. Don’t. That trades a five-minute…

    35 min read·May 2026
  18. 18 Harden Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 for Desktop and Server: Complete Guide Part 18 of 20

    Harden Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 for Desktop and Server: Complete Guide

    A fresh Fedora 44 install ships in better security posture than most Linux distributions. SELinux is enforcing, firewalld blocks anything that no service exposes, the kernel…

    3 min read·May 2026
  19. 19 Run Podman Quadlet Systemd Containers on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 Part 19 of 20

    Run Podman Quadlet Systemd Containers on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42

    If you have ever run a container long-term with podman run -d, you have written a deployment with no lifecycle, no logging integration, and no obvious…

    9 min read·May 2026
  20. 20 Run Local LLMs on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 with Ollama (CPU) Part 20 of 20

    Run Local LLMs on Fedora 44 / 43 / 42 with Ollama (CPU)

    You do not need a GPU to run a useful local LLM on Fedora 44. With Ollama plus one of the modern small models (Gemma 3…

    9 min read·May 2026

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