The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[DavidS877]

I would love to run Linux but it seems like every distro refuses to cooperate with my wifi adapter.
>get ethernet
No. Layout doesn't allow it. Can't move the line into the house either.

Get a drill and use Ethernet.
Get a USB WiFi that is supported to get running and presumably to the point where you can do the setup needed for the on-board WiFi adapter.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I would love to run Linux but it seems like every distro refuses to cooperate with my wifi adapter.
>get ethernet
No. Layout doesn't allow it. Can't move the line into the house either.

What adapter do you have? Every pcie adapter I've put in my machines running linux work no problem. Realtek chipsets tend to work right out the box with no fiddling.

 

[Battlefield42]

I've been debating installing it on my Legion Go. Right now running pure arch with KDE, but it is not a super pleasant experience as a touch only device. While KDE/Plasma does have some good touch support, it is not as good as windows is at this point. I may have to try bazzite as when I installed arch, there was little to no support for the Legion Go and it's come a long way.

touch is never good on desktop operating systems

 

[Betonhaus]

I'm going to add screen as a useful tool to install. after 2 hours of upgrading to Debian 12 I'm only 24% done and i really wish I could detach the session so I could put my desktop to sleep while the server churns away

 

[Betonhaus]

Hey, when moving / to a smaller SSD what bootable tool should I use to resize the partitions while moving over and change the UUID of the drive and what's listed in fstab? Or should I just use clonezilla plus another to resize the partitions?

 

[Sperg Coalition]

I'm going to add screen as a useful tool to install. after 2 hours of upgrading to Debian 12 I'm only 24% done and i really wish I could detach the session so I could put my desktop to sleep while the server churns away

I've never understood the utility of programs like screen if someone is running a graphical session, why not just spawn another terminal window instead of sharing a single terminal that can take all "subterminals" down if the master process fails?

 

[Greenday87]

Get a drill and use Ethernet.
Get a USB WiFi that is supported to get running and presumably to the point where you can do the setup needed for the on-board WiFi adapter.

Can't drill. I don't own the house.
The adapter will detect wifi but never connects. Google-fu results in nothing but unrelated and unhelpful 5+ year old posts. I've given up until I can use ethernet.

 

[Susanna]

I've never understood the utility of programs like screen if someone is running a graphical session, why not just spawn another terminal window instead of sharing a single terminal that can take all "subterminals" down if the master process fails?

You can give a screen a name and keep it running while the terminal window is closed. But its primary purpose is for when you’re not using a DE, but rather just a terminal, for example in a really barebones install or over ssh. Since a screen will continue running in the background, getting disconnected from your ssh won’t abort whatever you were doing.

 

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You can give a screen a name and keep it running while the terminal window is closed. But its primary purpose is for when you’re not using a DE, but rather just a terminal, for example in a really barebones install or over ssh. Since a screen will continue running in the background, getting disconnected from your ssh won’t abort whatever you were doing.

Detaching the screen session also has validity if you have something you want to keep running, just locally, and don't trust the piss poor insecure excuses for screen lockers that GNOME and KDE ship.

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-898-1

If you're not logged into a graphical session with only a shitty screen locker protecting you, a shitty screen locker can't make your session vulnerable #usei3lockfaggot

 

[pylosurf]

I've given up until I can use ethernet.

Another option would be an Ethernet<->WiFi bridge. They are relatively cheap.

 

[Betonhaus]

Does anyone have any experience with using bind dns? I just realized that all traffic to my server is being routed outside the network, so i want to set my server as the primary dns so that it would route calls to the server's dns address directly to it. webmin's guide for it is confusing and incomplete

 

[DavidS877]

Does anyone have any experience with using bind dns? I just realized that all traffic to my server is being routed outside the network, so i want to set my server as the primary dns so that it would route calls to the server's dns address directly to it. webmin's guide for it is confusing and incomplete

Check out unbound or dnsmasq(with DHCP disabled). Or maybe a "pihole" in a docker/podman container.

Bind is for professionals.

 

[Slav Power]

Another option would be an Ethernet<->WiFi bridge. They are relatively cheap.

Or, you get any Mikrotik router with WiFi and configure it to work as a WiFi client. Preferably something based on ARM, since only ARM based devices have Wave2 packages, AKA the ones that are actually working. hAP ac2 is old and overpriced when buying new, so second hand market is a good place to look at. Alternatively, get an hAP ax2, or a hAP ax lite if you don't need 5GHz WiFi.

The upside is that you get a fun toy to learn how to do networking on. It's very convoluted, very autistic but exposes just about every networking thing you'd want to learn, where you have to know what you want to set up to set it up.

 

[Betonhaus]

Check out unbound or dnsmasq(with DHCP disabled). Or maybe a "pihole" in a docker/podman container.

Bind is for professionals.

thanks i'm trying out unbound. Webmin is a very powerful tool but it's also extremely overkill and complicated for home use. i should maybe try to find an alternative

EDIT: so far i think it's half working but avahi no longer works, tho that's no longer an issue

 

[Car Won't Crank]

thanks i'm trying out unbound. Webmin is a very powerful tool but it's also extremely overkill and complicated for home use. i should maybe try to find an alternative

EDIT: so far i think it's half working but avahi no longer works, tho that's no longer an issue

Make sure your router has an option to set your pihole or unbound instance's ip address as the DNS server.

 

[Betonhaus]

Make sure your router has an option to set your pihole or unbound instance's ip address as the DNS server.

for some reason I feel insulted now.

So far everything seems to work, but Edge needed a setting changed in order to use it

 

[Car Won't Crank]

for some reason I feel insulted now.

So far everything seems to work, but Edge seems to be using it's own DNS servers and/or completely ignores the custom one which might've been part of the confusion

I don't know what the TPlink deco can and can't do

 

[Betonhaus]

I don't know what the TPlink deco can and can't do

Every router in existence will let you change the DHCP settings, which includes what the two DNS servers are available. No matter if it's a $5 one off AliExpress or a $10/month one from your ISP. If you are unable to do so that means you don't know how to access it's configuration page or you don't have the password to your own router.

Also I'm currently using this router, I believe I mentioned it already.

 

[DavidS877]

Every router in existence will let you change the DHCP settings, which includes what the two DNS servers are available. No matter if it's a $5 one off AliExpress or a $10/month one from your ISP. If you are unable to do so that means you don't know how to access it's configuration page or you don't have the password to your own router.

Also I'm currently using this router, I believe I mentioned it already.

You've obviously not used the routers some ISPs force their customers to use. Fully locked down, no settings and can't replace them.

For Edge, and maybe others. look up DNS over HTTPS. Some will stop their bullshit if there's a canary domain, others need settings changed.

 

[Betonhaus]

You've obviously not used the routers some ISPs force their customers to use. Fully locked down, no settings and can't replace them.

I concede that I wasn't aware that some ISPs locked down their routers so much. When contacting support I was alarmed by the level of detail they could see about my network was, I assumed they could control the modem but I had full control over the routers. Bought the new router the next day after finding that out, and now that my network is proving to be stable I will return the deco pods to the ISP.