fedora.help: Make Fedora Yours
fedora.help is an unofficial, community-run guide to the software Fedora can't ship: multimedia codecs, the NVIDIA driver, third-party repos like RPM Fusion and Flathub, and the closed-source apps most desktops end up wanting. Plus the fixes a fresh install usually needs.
Why this site exists
Fedora ships only free and open source software, per the Fedora Project mission. Red Hat's legal position also rules out patent-encumbered and redistribution-restricted code. So a number of things desktop users expect can't live inside Fedora:
- Patented multimedia codecs (H.264, HEVC, AAC and friends)
- NVIDIA's proprietary driver
- Proprietary firmware and hardware enablement blobs
- Closed-source applications: Steam, Discord, Chrome, Spotify
That's out of scope for the project, so the documentation has to live elsewhere.
Target Audience
Desktop Fedora users who want the proprietary pieces working, and who want to understand what they installed once it is.
The guides assume a reader who:
- can open a terminal and work at a shell prompt
- is unafraid to run commands, including as root
- reads a command before pasting it
- wants to build up their own Fedora knowledge along the way
They target current, supported Fedora releases on x86_64 — Workstation and the desktop spins. Atomic variants (Silverblue, Kinoite) are called out where the steps differ.
None of this is required. A stock Fedora install is complete and supported as shipped; every page here steps outside it.
Not affiliated with the Fedora Project
fedora.help is an independent community project. It is not produced, endorsed, or reviewed by the Fedora Project or Red Hat, and "Fedora" is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. For official documentation, see docs.fedoraproject.org.