[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Gotcha. Well I guess PopOS (never run into that one before) is doing some kind of magic for you - probably it’s a fork of tge mainline kernel or loading some Nvidia kernel driver using systemd or init scripts or the like or some combo.

[ShadowAce]

Yeah--I think they put most of their stuff into the kernel. I haven't investigated it at all though. Haven't had the time yet.

I do know that the wifi driver is cfg80211 / mac80211. Need to figure out the iwl package for that for Fedora. Also gotta figure out how to get DisplayPort working. Already got sound working (another gotcha).

The good news is that my /home is one a separate ssd, so I can install an OS rather easily. I've written a script that will install and configure things to my liking as well, so once the base OS is installed, I just run the script, reboot into the new kernel, and I'm just like I was before the experiment. :)