Hi everyone!
I’ve been enjoying Gnome for the last 5 years, mainly in Fedora Workstation. Lately, I’ve been feeling a scratch to try something else after a few annoyances with notifications or the file manager.
I’ve also been using KDE in Steam OS on my Steam Deck, but something doesn’t feel right even if I managed to reproduce my Gnome workflow in it.
I thought that Cosmic could be the perfect middle ground and I wanted to dual boot it alongside Fedora Workstation on my second computer, an upgraded Mac Book Pro from 2012. As I enjoy Fedora, I downloaded the Fedora Cosmic Atomic version.
On this computer, you normally have to enable RPM fusion to get the broadcom drivers for the wifi. I followed the instructions related to os-tree based systems with no luck. Then I thought, let’s just download the normal Fedora Cosmic as I don’t need an immutable distro and the commands should be the same as for Workstation.
Despite, managing to get the Broadcom drivers, I never managed to get the wifi working in Fedora Cosmic.
I might be stupid, but I don’t understand why as it’s the same distro and just a different DE. Doe’s anyone have an explanation?
It might be a sign that I should just live with the minor annoyances I get in Gnome, but some things looked really good in Cosmic and I’d love to dual boot it for a while…
Nah just to be clear, I tried to dual boot Fedora Cosmic Atomic and later Fedora Cosmic with Fedora Workstation.
Grub wasn’t seeing my Fedora Workstation install anymore, so I don’t think the Gnome network manager comes into account.
But I might be way out of my league as there is so much I don’t understand.
Try using your CMOS’ EFI boot manager and see if it sees both. If so, just skip Grub and use that.