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Fedora 44 Cinnamon Developer Installation and Configuration Guide

Last updated: May 14, 2026

Target system: Fedora Linux 44 Cinnamon Spin, regular DNF-managed install, x86_64 desktop.

This guide consolidates the Fedora setup we worked through: developer tools, NVIDIA drivers, Docker, Docker Desktop, local AI tools, IDEs, Steam gaming support, webcam controls, system monitoring, Postman, Slack, AppImage handling, and a Brother HL-L2405W printer.

Hardware profile this guide is tuned for:

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I'm just starting out with Docker so this is very much an entry-level attempt at setting up a development environment

Stack (and official Docker image links)

• Alphine
• NGINX
• PHP
• Composer
• NodeJS
• Redis
• Maria DB

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Nginx

• sudo dnf install nginx -y
• sudo systemctl start nginx
• firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
• firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https

** NOTE ** When adding NGINX entries within RHEL, apparently you MUST checkout your code into the /var/www/ directory. I will update this once I learn why NINX entries can't point outside of of this directory.

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MacOS Catalina Setup

Install Xcode

• Xcode

VS Code Installation

• Visual Studio Code

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

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Common Linux Commands

The purpose of this this is to document every day commands we use in the terminal on linux based systems.
(we'll use ZSH as our shell)

Copy files to/from a remote server

The directory on the left is where you're coping FROM
scp -r /YOUR_LOCAL_DIRECTORY YOUR_USER_NAME@REMOTE_SERVER_IP:REMOTE_SERVER_DIRECTORY

Compressing Files

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Ubuntu 24.10

Installing gDebi

sudo apt install gdebi-core

Sharing Drives via Samba

• Install the taskel and samba server packages
  • sudo tasksel install samba-server
  • sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf_backup
  • sudo bash -c 'grep -v -E "^#|^;" /etc/samba/smb.conf_backup | grep . > /etc/samba/smb.conf'
• sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

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Install Chocolately

• https://chocolatey.org/

Install ConEmu

• Install via chocolately choco install conemu -y

Install Nginx

• Install via chocolately choco install nginx -y ** The -y argument is to skip any confirmation messages...just install it. It's fine ;)

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Redux Saga

• Why would I use Redux Saga?
• What is Redux Saga?
• Features of Redux Saga
• Redux Saga vs...

Why would I use Redux Saga?

• Has a large and growing community with hundreds of contributors
• Works great for both client and server environments

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