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How does this happen? Do not most major desktop Linux distros more or less run almost the same kernel with the same driver modules? (Except in the case of Debian being several years behind the rest).
TLDR, computer SAYS NO!
Each distro has its own flavor, and sometimes that flavor leads to things not going the way the user or even maintainer of said desktop applications intended.
But at the end of the day, there's only one program in control of all the hardware. They're all getting the kernel from the same place, the distros aren't writing their own kernels except for a few tweaks here and there.
Is there though? There's a surprising amount of layers hidden away particularly in the UI. If any one of those layers fucks up then wifi no workie. There's also like 700 programs that all do the same thing, but not all of them work. Very fun to find out that they changed X in an update and now all the automations you had set up need updating.
The tweaks can make a huge difference on more obscure hardware
Fedora has a policy of not shipping with non-free/proprietary packages. So depending on what wifi adaptor you have the driver might not be present by default. It's easily fixed by enabling non-free/third party repos after installation, but the annoying gotcha with wifi drivers is you might not have an alternative way to reach the internet to do that.
Mostly but some base distros change the kernel config and other make changes to the code for some reason.