According to the release tracker, Atomic Desktops was supposed to drop FUSE 2 in the base image. However, the base Kinoite 44 image seems to still have fuse-libs-2.9.9-25 installed. Silverblue does not. See output below from fresh F44 ISO installs of Kinoite 44 and Silverblue 44.
Kinoite 44
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Silverblue 44
yosuke@fedora:~$ rpm -qa | grep fuse
fuse-common-3.18.2-1.fc44.x86_64
fuse3-libs-3.18.2-1.fc44.x86_64
fuse3-3.18.2-1.fc44.x86_64
fuse-overlayfs-1.16-2.fc44.x86_64
gvfs-fuse-1.60.0-1.fc44.x86_64
yosuke@fedora:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
fedora:fedora/44/x86_64/silverblue
Version: 44.20260428.0 (2026-04-28T01:03:05Z)
Commit: 74421c296da6257c5618b783d1391173d1c44e3d4fe5c06e901b3ddfb9d631f5
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 36F612DCF27F7D1A48A835E4DBFCF71C6D9F90A6
Diff: 241 upgraded, 2 added
● fedora:fedora/44/x86_64/silverblue
Version: 44.1.7 (2026-04-22T13:27:20Z)
Commit: b8e75b708a972d784856f07d964202860088b1138ef9eadb01aa7d76c795104a
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 36F612DCF27F7D1A48A835E4DBFCF71C6D9F90A6
yosuke@fedora:~$
