Fedora 44 Now Gaming Ready
The latest version of Fedora has been released with gaming support.
I never thought I'd consider Fedora a solid gaming platform, but with the release of the latest iteration (version 44), the developers have enabled the NTSYNC kernel module. NTSYNC enables high-performance emulation of Windows NT synchronization primitives, which are used to manage thread interaction, protect shared resources, and prevent race conditions by signaling when threads can proceed. This new addition vastly improves gaming performance with Wine and Proton by moving synchronization to userspace tools like fsync and esync.
With the help of NTSYNC, you might see anywhere from 40-200 percent frames per second (FPS) gains! That's impressive.
As well, you'll get kernel 6.19, Gnome 50 (or KDE Plasma 6.6, if you go the Fedora KDE route), support for the Nix package manager, DNF5 support for PackageKit, and (finally) the Fedora Miracle spin gets the Dank Material Shell, which means the Miracle Window Manager should be working properly again (huzzah!).
Of course, there's an updated toolchain kit, including GCC 16.1, GNU binutils 2.46, and on and on and on.
Another important new feature is that all packages in Fedora 44 are reproducible, which means that compiling the same source code, using the same dependencies and instructions, produces bit-for-bit identical binary artifacts, regardless of the machine or time of build.
If you're interested in Fedora 44, grab an ISO from the official Fedora download site, and make sure to read the official release changeset for all the scoop.
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