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Fedora 36 for photographers

Tim Wells
4 min readMay 11, 2022

The Fedora 36 Linux operating system has just released. It’s got plenty of updates over the previous versions that power users and regular users might appreciate. I’m going to look at how I would setup Fedora 36 with the tools I use for my photography workflow.

Fedora 36 for photographers

#1 — Installing or upgrading

If you’re already running Fedora 35, the option to upgrade should be there. It will put the system in a special upgrade mode as it downloads the packages and updates the system before rebooting into the newly installed Fedora 36.

Fedora 35 will prompt in the update manager to upgrade to 36

If you’re not running Fedora 35 and want to give it a try, you can always download the ISO for Fedora 36 and boot it up in a virtual machine. This would allow you to experience it without changing your current system. Keep in mind though, the performance of a virtual machine will be slower than running it directly on real hardware.

Starting the install of Fedora 36 in a virtual machine.

If you’re ready to install it on your hardware you can create a bootable flash drive and boot your system off that and follow…

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Tim Wells
Tim Wells

Written by Tim Wells

Self taught software developer and photographer.

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