A PowerShell script that ran fine 30 minutes ago suddenly “cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled”? You probably didn’t change anything — you changed terminals. VS Code has two nearly identical PowerShell consoles, and only one of them obeys the execution policy.
Installing Visual Studio Code from Microsoft’s RPM works fine on Fedora, but updates often don’t: the in-app Update button just opens a download page. Here’s how to register Microsoft’s repository properly so DNF handles VS Code updates alongside everything else.
My ThinkPad P15 crashed on resume from sleep — a NULL pointer dereference in the NVIDIA 610.4x driver on Ampere mobile GPUs. The fix turned out to be a driver update and patience, but the real lesson is the testing discipline: baseline before mitigation, one variable at a time.
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.
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.
