I Installed Fedora 44. Here’s What Actually Changed

I installed Fedora 44 in a VM to see what’s actually new - and this release feels less about small updates and more about direction. Fedora has always been the place where new ideas show up first, but this time it’s doing some pretty bold moves. You’ve got DNF5 replacing years of legacy package management, Nix showing up as an alternative way to think about environments and reproducibility, and the continued push toward a Wayland-only future. In this video I go through the install, try things out, and talk about what these changes actually mean; Not just what’s written in the release notes. What I find interesting is that Fedora isn’t playing it safe here. Moving fast on things like Wayland, experimenting with tools like Nix, and reworking core parts like DNF… that’s not something every distro is willing to do. Release Notes: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releas... Download Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/workstation... Important Note: As @pl_6037sudo mentioned in the comments, these are the command for upgrading from 42 or 43 to 44: dnf update sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44 sudo dnf offline reboot