Broken things I found while using Fedora

List of broken things I encountered running Fedora as my primary OS for a few weeks

Background #

I’ve been a macOS user for a while, but while my laptop was being repaired I started using an HP laptop my company gave me and installed Linux on it.

I decided on Fedora as I tried a few distros in the past and Fedora was the only one that didn’t break in any way on my old 2010 Macbook Pro.

Hardware:

Software:

This seems to be a common issue with Wayland.

Some windows can be shared, but when trying to share the whole screen, all it shows is the cursor and a black background.

Fixable? Yes, but only on Chrome web apps.

Within Chrome, enable the chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer flag. I could not figure out how to fix standalone apps.

My first gen Airpods Pro won’t pair.

I’m not sure on what the cause is. Any other Bluetooth device works fine with the laptop and the Airpods do work with any other device I tried.

Fixable? No idea.

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Clicking on them won’t do anything. I tried both the official installer and the Flatpak version.

Fixable? Kinda.

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