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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Gentoo seems fun, I wanna try it some day. I would also recommend Void if you're looking for a distro with a boring old binary package manager (it's what I use on my laptop). Although the package list in Void is rather barren, I would recommend installing Flatpak to help fill in the gaps for some of the missing packages. There's also Alpine if you wanna go balls deep into the minimalism rabbithole. What makes Alpine so difficult is that it's a musl libc distro, so anything that needs glibc (i.e. any "serious" gui application) needs to run through a compatibility layer like gcompat or flatpak. Void is available in both glibc and musl libc flavours.

    The community aspect can definitely be a big hurdle. Most of the time if you search for something like " ubuntu", you can more or less blindly copy-paste the commands from the first result and it will work. With niche distros, you have to be able to interpolate instructions aimed at other distros and actually understand what you're doing. That why I would never recommend a non-systemd distro to someone who's new to linux.

    By the way, what's your network issue? I'm no expert, but maybe I can try to help?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It seems to be an issue with using a 5.8 gigahertz WiFi endpoint, which has worked fine up until a couple days ago when it started dropping packets going outside my local network: I could watch a continuous ping start failing for a couple minutes while using Synergy to control my laptop that was connected to my work VPN without issue, so it only seemed to be an issue routing outside my network, which is really weird. Switching to the 2.4 gigahertz channels seems to have fixed it entirely.

    What I need to do is look up the JournalD commands to be able to read the logs correctly and find what I'm after... Might also spin up a VM to see if that goes out at the same time, would be interesting if the VM can still work while the host is dropping packets...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    So switching to a slower wifi AP causes packets destined for outside of your network to not be dropped? That sounds like one of those cursed issues that's a complete nightmare to track down lol. Maybe the faster speed of the 5.8ghz network is causing your router to get overwhelmed or something? Does the same issue happen if you connect via ethernet? I don't really know what else can cause this, I hope you can get it fixed!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    Since my other systems were unaffected, I'm pretty sure it's something on my PC, possibly an update for the Wi-Fi drivers introduced a bug that affects the 5.8 channels

    It's been stable since switching so it's more academic at this point, I have no burning need to be connected to the 5ghz channels