Installing NVIDIA drivers on Linux used to leave mental scars. Today it’s two dnf commands, one compile, and a blue screen most guides never mention. Here’s the full process on Fedora 44 with Secure Boot enabled — including every trap in the MOK enrollment ceremony.
Dual-booting in 2026 isn’t the bootloader minefield it used to be — if you make the right structural choice up front. Here’s how I added Fedora 44 to my ThinkPad P15 Gen2, including what to do when Windows refuses to shrink a half-empty drive.
Firefox running but no window in sight? When macOS restores an app window to coordinates that no longer exist, here’s a whole toolbox of fixes – including the little-known Window – Move to Display option that saved the day.
Substance Painter is one of the few applications for which Adobe develop a Linux version. It’s possibly a contractual overhang from the Allegorithmic days. Typically we don’t get access to it through the Creative Cloud app, and only special contract holders can download this version from Adobe. However, Steam lets Linux users either download the … Read more
Fedora’s SELinux Alert Browser drowning you in fontconfig write denials on /usr/lib/fontconfig/cache? Here’s why it happens, the one-liner that fixes it, and whether it’ll return after the next upgrade.
Anthropic’s official Claude Desktop app for Linux only ships for Debian and Ubuntu — but Fedora users have three good routes: a Distrobox container running Anthropic’s own package, a community RPM repository, or a one-click install via Discover. Here’s how all three work, which one suits you, and the one Mesa gotcha to know about.
Distrobox is a fascinating project that lets us run apps made for other distributions right on the one we’re using — a Debian app on Fedora, an RPM inside Ubuntu — without a VM, dual-booting, or a second desktop. Under the hood it uses Podman containers, but not the way Docker uses them: instead of … Read more
SMR drives have a terrible reputation — but is it deserved? I copied 533 GB of render output to a WD My Passport 6TB and measured what actually happens. Instead of the infamous cliff, I got a staircase, with real sustained speeds far better than expected.