TRIM - Fedora 32 edition

Weird performance problems return and go away thanks to fstrim.
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Making VMWare Workstation launch on Linux 5.8

While VMWare workstation works well on Fedora, it’s not officially supported, and the Fedora kernel regularly gets ahead of what VMWare expects from the host. It’s worse than normal this time.
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Thinkpad T480 Firmware Updates on Fedora KDE

Firmware updates are not front-and-center in the KDE spin of Fedora. I missed a couple. Here’s how to get them.
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Trying out Aseprite on Fedora 31

How to try out Aseprite on Fedora Workstation 31
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Anbox on Fedora 31

Getting Anbox running on Fedora 31
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Making VMWare Workstation Work with New Host Kernels (on Fedora)

While VMWare workstation works well on Fedora, it’s not officially supported, and the Fedora kernel regularly gets ahead of what VMWare expects from the host. This is how to pull the latest version of the VMWare host modules at any time and get VMWare to use those instead when it installs its own updates.
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TRIM on a cheap NVMe SSD

Fixing weird performance problems by issuing TRIM on an encrypted ssd
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