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F*ck Windows: move to Fedora or Ubuntu (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by spacehedgehog@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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.)

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[–] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I moved to Fedora a few years ago. Spent a week or two orienting myself, like going to a new town and not knowing how to get around. So glad I did. I choose when and what to update.

Not perfect though, it lost keyboard connection yesterday. Reboot fixed it.

[–] spacehedgehog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

what made you decide to use Fedora and not Ubuntu. Or Linux Mint?

[–] Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Not the original guy, but I went to Fedora (Silverblue) first, because I heard so much about Ubuntu being shit and basically slightly less corpo infested Windows. I had Fedora recommended to me by a person I know + privacy guides recommends it I think.

I just wanted a simple distro that is seen as privacy respecting for anyone who didn't want to go into the deep end of Tails OS and the like.

Silverblue is atomic, which is typically advertised as "Noob-proof" since you can't really touch the OS and system files itself. But I like to tinker a little and found it frustrating to work around, so I ended up going with regular Fedora Plasma KDE. Been a year or almost 2 now and it's been great. My biggest "normal" issue was bluetooth and touchpad issues. Bluetooth issue was caused by not doing a full power cycle after a kernel update, and touchpad was randomly disabling itself in settings for some reason... The other issues were needing specific software for class purposes like VirtualBox (signing keys and shit for virtualization ig) or coding apps (had to start it in terminal).

Wifi blew up once and tried to troubleshoot to no avail, a reboot or two later and it fixed itself 🙏