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…
To be honest, I’m not really looking for a solution anymore as I gave up on Cosmic and just decided to use more extensions in Gnome instead.
The thing is, these problems show me that Linux can still be difficult to use if you don’t have hardware perfectly suited to it.
Even when you think that you now know enough about how to solve problems, all your previous solutions can be useless😅
That’s fair.
I went gnome -> kde -> cosmic -> kde -> cosmic.
And I’m thinking of trying hyperland or something built on river so I can more customization.