Learning to Develop .net core on Linux - Laptop setup

I decided it would be better learn linux on an actual machine instead of a virtual machine.   I looked at some of the linux laptop available and found I like the System76 laptops but opted to get a get a cheap laptop to learn on.

The laptop I bought was a HP 15-dy1731ms

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Touchscreen-i3-1005G1-Bluetooth-15-dy1731ms/dp/B082358X13

First thing I did was boot up the computer and enter the Bios by pressing F10 at startup.

In the BIOS i made 2 changes first I disabled secure boot so I could install Linux.


Second I made the USB drive a the primary boot device.

I went ahead and booted off the Fedora usb drive and installed it to the hard drive.  As part of the install I deleted the windows partitions and let fedora partition the hard drive.

Once installed I noticed that the Realtek rtl8821ce wifi did not work.  I tried the steps in this forum question and few like it but did not have any luck getting to work reliably.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/983251/installing-wi-fi-driver-for-realtek-semiconductor-rtl8723de-device-10ecd723

In the end I bought a TP-Link usb wifi adapter (that has linux support) to connect to the internet

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008IFXQFU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1