I actually had two threads going on this forum and another the Fedora forum when I was debugging this. In my hurry to reply yesterday I didn't check which one had most of my investigation. Turns out that is on the Fedora forum here:
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showt...with-Fedora-33.
In my last
post there I noted the Realtek chip and how it's being recognized as something else. I have a couple of links there with similar reports from other users. Then I finally found the kernel bug around that. I left a
comment there with my findings on my hardware.
And I did react to all suggestions here, but neglected to post my findings.
Regarding certification, Canonical has something going where manufacturers can test their product with an Ubuntu version and get a thumbs up if it mostly (?) works. You can find a list of those devices
here. It may not be much but it's something to start with if you are looking to run Linux on a laptop and you're low on the time needed to figure out if the hardware will work with Linux or not. It's certainly not bulletproof - don't know what would be pre-purchase except finding the same hardware and testing Linux on it or finding out if someone else had success with the same configuration you're about to buy and still YMMV. I usually do some research pre-purchase but skipped that for this brand new model and decided to pull the trigger on that model because I liked what it was offering and the price. I was aware it might not work out.
