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  • Rand0mA@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlDistro for POS
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    9 months ago

    Immutables are easy enough. Had a couple of months on the kde fedora spin. Fresh install and youll have no dnf (equiv of apt in debian) or other terminal tools. Might make you wonder what to do. The trick is toolboxes (or distrobox for a bit more umpfh).

    Commands like this

    toolbox create testzone

    toolbox enter testzone

    Install a load of shit that eventually fucks up your config somehow… And if it goes to shit

    toolbox rm testzone

    If it complains the toolbox is still running when you try to delete you can kill it using podman to find its process id, then you can kill it. I forget the commands though

    You can have a stack of toolboxes. Gives you dnf and all your terminal tools. Still a few things to work out with data storage since it locks most of the root directories. It wants you in best practice dirs like /home, /etc but thats also what stops it breaking.

    If a toolbox isnt enough, you can use distrobox, which can give you other flavours of *nix within it.

    Good luck!!


  • Rand0mA@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlDistro for POS
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    9 months ago

    I read that as “Distro for Piece of Shit”. I was going to say, if you dont like them, install Gentoo.

    Personally i tend to use Debian or Fedora. Fedora have also got a few distros that are immutable which if its a pos basically means it shouldnt ever break or get corrupted.

    That being said… If it works, dont ‘fix’ it. Debian is a decent OS.


  • Ok, so i guess you’re dual boot. So in Windows, Device manager, find your network device and disable it there. It shouldnt ever reenable itself on its own.

    Microsoft IPs blocklists exist, though I havent used them. I imagine they update frequently. Adguard home or pihole have good uses but itll need an always on device to run it.

    A simpler idea which should be a 20 minute turn around to do, amd will cost you nothing would be either:

    • Set a static ip on the windows computer, blank out the dns so it cant reach the internet.
    • Set the MAC address on the windows ethernet adapter to something custom, or a static ip. Make sure the static IP is out of DHCP scope or at least not the same as your other OS or devices. Then on your router, block internet access to that Device MAC or IP.