Today, lovely Windows 11 installed an update. And since then I don’t have internet access because Microslop Wincrap 11 can somehow magically no longer connect to the DNS server - to any DNS server. No other device in my network has the same issue. I’ve been bugfixing for over an hour and haven’t found a solution. setting the DNS manually, resetting the network adapter, flushed all DNS entries (I used the commandline tool on Windows!). nothing works.

I don’t have ANY more patience with W11!

I already tried Linux. I’m using Ubuntu Server for hosting Nextcloud and Fedora just to play around.

Do you prefer Fedora or Ubuntu? I have an old Thinkpad…

(And no, I will not go down the rabbit hole of Arch ;-) At least not for now.)

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    CachyOS and Fedora are the front runners but man do I hate Gnome.

    Plenty of good KDE distros out there. And it’s often possible to install KDE on a Gnome-default system.

    Don’t know about CatchyOS or Fedora, but on Ubuntu, the command was sudo apt install KDE-full … then just restart and it boots into KDE no problem.

    (Yes, I know Kubuntu exists. But Kubuntu didn’t support ZFS on root during install, while mainline Ubuntu did. So I suffered through using Gnome just long enough to open a terminal and type in that command, followed by reboot.)

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 days ago

      CachyOS asks you which DE you want when installing. And even if it didn’t, it’s Arch, and you can have whichever DE you want on Arch. I don’t know Fedora well, but I think it has variants with different DEs preinstalled.