{"id":13091,"date":"2026-05-22T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:23:49","slug":"fedora-44-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=13091","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 44 Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been using Fedora 44 for nearly a month<\/a>, and I have some impressions of it. This is not a review, but just a look at some of the things I’ve noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The One Thing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Really there’s only one thing I’ve noticed. That’s the fact that there’s really nothing to notice, and that’s what’s truly important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the user, there’s nothing noticeable except perhaps the background, and that’s only if you’re still using the default background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Xfce desktop hasn’t changed. The way my applications work hasn’t changed. My backup scripts and timers all work as they did before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still don’t get pop-ups imploring me to upgrade one thing or another. My Applications (Start) menu hasn’t changed and still doesn’t present me with advertisements trying to sell me software and services I don’t want. Fedora still doesn’t send telemetry somewhere that records everything I do or develops a targeted ad campaign unique to me. I still don’t have unwanted junk software that some idiots have decided to call AI, getting in my way while I try to work. My data is still mine and it’s still located only on my local storage devices which is the only place I want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although I sometimes like to change things up, I want to do it when I want, not when a roomfull of marketing bozos want to force me to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do try different desktops — when I feel like it. I change my Xfce desktop around a bit — when I want to. I do install new software sometimes — when I want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still have complete control of my computer and my data. And that’s the most important thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My impressions of Fedora 44 after a month of use. But it’s not a review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,5,28],"tags":[240,979,91,747,148],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedora","category-linux","category-opinion","tag-fedora","tag-impressions","tag-linux","tag-moving-to-linux","tag-opinion"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14250,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/14250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}