Great news! Fedora is succesfully installed! Thank you both for your time and incredible help.
Now I do have a couple of follow up questions if possible:
First, I noticed fedora is not recognizing my wifi hardware at all because I have no way of connected to wifi from the settings, how can I fix this? On that note how should I go about updating and getting all of the appropriate drivers? This is the laptop I’m using
My second question is that I’d like for the Fedora installation to remain “hidden” at boot, so that windows just automatically boots up and that I can only get to Fedora if I purposefully hit f12 to access the boot menu. Is this possible?
First we need to know which wifi chip you have.
Please run lspci | grep Network and post it so we can see what is there.
Different manufacturers use different chipsets and each require different drivers so to get the proper driver the chipset must be identified.
That would have been easier had you specified that earlier, but we can fix the grub menu to boot windows by default.
This thread talks about how to do this, and I would suggest you read it carefully then make your own choices as to how to proceed. @chrismurphy in his post near the end of that discussion seemed to have the best solution, and maybe he can give you detailed guidance about that.
Glad it worked out. We are here to help. I believe this thread is now resolved. Please, tick the post that solved your problem as the “Solution”. That way, people with similar issues can find answers without starting duplicate threads. Start separate threads for your new questions since they do not concern Fedora installation. They relate to managing an already installed Fedora/Windows.
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