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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't. I just set up a Linux Mint system for someone. I had a hell of a time trying to figure out the convoluted network and dns systems.

I use Windows on the desktop right now, but if I switched to Linux, it would probably be Fedora. I'd suggest sticking with that.

[–] dharmacurious 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't do anything in depth enough for those things to really impact me. I'm mostly a browser and Google docs person. Honestly, my biggest gripe with fedora isn't even a fedora problem, it's just that anytime I look up how to do something, it gives Debian based instructions and I get a little lost trying to figure out how to do it on fedora.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Usually it's not that different, though substitute dnf for apt, and package names might be slightly different. If you find instructions for Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky, or Alma they're usually all compatible since they're all derived from the same source.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Linux mint is fantastic breh. You're doing something wrong.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably. But it shouldn't be that difficult to just set the damn DNS servers. Used to be you just edited resolv.conf and that was it.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Idk I've never needed to do that in a personal setting.