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.)

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    16 hours ago

    I am a Debian man myself for servers. I don’t want any Canonical bullshit to break mid LTS.

    While I am still running win 10 I am undecided which desktop to switch to. CachyOS and Fedora are the front runners but man do I hate Gnome.

    • sp6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      You don’t have to use Gnome on Cachy or Fedora. Fedora has spins for nearly every DE, and Cachy also has an option for nearly every DE on install.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        16 minutes ago

        I’m scared of Arch and cachyOS was the easiest OS install and config I’ve probably ever done. Maybe OSX was easier, but that’s it. It’s sooooo good, and I had zero issues getting everything working perfectly.

        Fedora had three big issues and many small. Fedora was actually the worst to get going. My hardcore difficult use cases include playing a video file from my NAS, seeing the music library on there, changing the desktop theme without it going crazy, and not having the aux jack send a huge horrible pop noise to whatever is plugged in when the sound device constantly goes to low power mode.

        Both cachy and fedora on the same exact model of machine, both at the same time (two machines, hardware is perfect, also windows 10 LTSC IoT dual boots to them both which worked… as well as windows works I suppose, good enough)

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      14 hours 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.)

    • spacehedgehog@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      I’m not a big fan of Gnome on Fedora either. Everything is just so big and needs so much space. CachyOS is a tad to new for my taste for using it as a daily driver.

        • Blubber28@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Seconding Fedora KDE. But if you’re not a fan, you could also opt for many of the other supported desktops (cinnamon, XFCE, etc.)

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        CatchyOS being bleeding edge has actually alleviated a lot of my complaints with Ubuntu/Fedora. Sometimes I really want that brand new shiny thing. And so far I haven’t had too many issues with Catchy breaking. Granted I only run it on my testing laptop not my main machine.