I find that a bit surprising but I would say not astonishing. Fedora is supposed to be the place to look for “latest and greatest” stuff but live and learn I guess.
I can’t tell from your post if the issue was in kernel version (fedora tends to have the very latest) or maybe it’s down to kernel config, or userspace binaries/config.
Oh wait - you did say - you said software/application. Well, there’s probably a path to get fedora working but probably why bother.
Not worth struggling just to prove a point - as long as you have a way to get to a good state. Way, way back in the day I ran both open source and closed source blobs for nvidia on a laptop and got things working albeit with some tweaking I think of kernel commandline parameters. Nowadays don’t use fedora on a laptop and for that matter don’t have nvidia hw either :)
I’m typing this now on Fedora 34. I quite like the look/feel of the new Gnome.
One thing I’d like to see improve is the gnome extension ecosystem. Inevitably you would like functionality that you can only get via extensions but equally inevitably the extension you want isn’t compatible with the version of Gnome you’re running and no one has bothered to update. I would say in this area things really are not ideal.
Secondly the whole libreoffice story isn’t that great. For simple tasks it works fine. But sharing docs back and forth between libreoffice and M$ office never really works as it should in my experience despite the ability to read/save as docx. It certainly doesn’t work well enough that you would use this as a workflow in a professional setting.
Beyond that - I really have no complaints.
As much as I like Fedora, I tend to agree with this. THis new laptop is also running coreboot, rather than the traditional BIOS. I *was* going to try to dual boot with Pop!_OS and Fedora, but Pop! uses systemd-boot and Fedora uses grub. That, combined with the EFI boot partition, makes dual booting tricky. I'm learning my way around apt, so I think I'll be OK as far as work goes.
I never did like Gnome. When running Fedora, I'd install the server edition, and add in xfce. I tried to avoid gnome stuff as much as possible. Even in Pop! I installed KDE and I log into that rather than Gnome.
I've never had an issue with LibreOffice. No one in my office can tell the difference between my docs and theirs. But I don't use overly complicated features either. Mine are pretty basic. :)