Oh for sure, do what you want to do. I’m just saying, while everyone has their opinions, some people like to follow the crowd of popular opinion, and the crowd is moving away from Ubuntu. Maybe not everyone knows that 🤷‍♂️

Ubuntu has kind of fallen out of favor with a lot of people, myself included. It used to be my go to, then I went mint, now I run fedora Bluefin.

Now that you mention it, I have come across an issue or two like that 🤔🤷‍♂️

I had a peak at cachy after hearing so much about it, but never tried it long term.

I’ll uh, I’ll take you up on that matrix add. My system is solid right now, but it’d be nice to have that option in my back pocket should I get stuck on something 😬

Edit: additionally, I agree wholeheartedly that immutable is the way forward for newbies in Linux, and honestly maybe even a power users workstation that needs maximum uptime/reliability.

I’ve been fiddling with Linux for over 20 years myself, but never INTENSELY, if that makes sense. I’d tinker with it on an old PC, dual boot my main PC, break it, go back to Windows for a year or two, tinker again, go fully Linux for a year, break it, back to Windows, etc etc.

I’ve been running Bluefin for almost a year, and I guarantee you it’s gonna stick this time. It’s so good, covers almost all my needs, and now I can’t break it!

Another vote for immutable here. I’m running Bluefin for almost a year and I absolutely love it.

My buddy asked me about options for his computer since it can’t run win11, I gave him several, one of which was Linux. Gave him pros and cons. He took the bait. Been a week now on bluefin, so far so good.

That’s extremely frustrating. Like, it’s literally your job to get that number correct…

People frustrate me

I like that

Makes sense. I work at a different type of repair shop, we just had a brand new $400 battery go up in smoke on first power up. Ridiculous.

They got away with it. I bought the part months ago after bodging a fix on the stock connector. By time the bodge failed, the return window closed. It was $5 so unfortunately not worth my time fighting it.

My headlight connector got a little melty, just enough to get loose and stop working, just wore out I suppose.

I bought one on Amazon, along with new bulbs, installed it, and within an hour the new connector had catastrophically melted and shorted out enough to blow the fuse.

I should’ve known, the wire felt cheap, copper clad aluminum. But I thought it would be fine, it’s just a headlight 🤷‍♂️

Now I’ve got a replacement from the local auto parts. So far so good.

Smart, maybe a foot pedal to hot swap between them. Make your second computer something small and powerful like a nuc, but off brand so it doesn’t look cooler or more fancy than a piece of networking gear

Brilliant

Opposite directions? That explains why mine never worked!

Like this one?

Or this one?

Can kde still do the cube natively? I loved the cube

Yep same here. Fedora gnome. Though I went bluefin, atomic immutable etc. So not only does it work, I can’t break it either lol. Been rock solid for about a year now.

Gotcha! No worries. Networking gets more and more like sorcery the deeper you go.

Networking and printers are my two least favorite computer things.

That makes sense. I haven’t used an ISP configured router in over a decade. At my parents house, their modem/router combo didn’t support bridge mode so I put it in a DMZ and slapped that to the WAN port on my router. Worked well.

Oh you mean DNS server, yes ok that makes sense. Yeah I totally understand running your own.

If I understand correctly, DHCP servers just assign local IPs on initial connection, and configure other stuff like pointing devices to the right DNS server, gateway, etc

Question, what’s the benefit of running a separate DHCP server?

I run openwrt, and the built in server seems fine? Why add complexity?

I’m sure there’s a good reason I’m just curious.