Huh, I’ll definitely look into that. Both times I tried to route external pihole access, somehow other mystery services found it and it slowed to a crawl from getting absolutely pounded by requests not from me. Thanks for that tip!

Except that, as I’ve already mentioned, I have two piholes, and sometimes both will be receiving requests. Based on your description, the second would never receive requests as long as the first is online. Perhaps this is router dependent, but it’s what I’ve observed.

Pretty much. Not sure how the router determines which DNS to use, but mine seems to latch onto whichever one serves up results the fastest, which would inevitably be cloudflare direct after the pihole returns enough blocks.

So I use a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a dedicated pihole, and my Pi 4 seedbox acts as its own pihole and as a redundant backup. Then use gravity-sync from the Zero to the 4 to mirror the settings.

I have two piholes, and sometimes both will receive requests at the same time, if there’s a lot of traffic.

I would avoid it, as it may use the alternate instead of the pihole at anytime. If you want redundancy, it’s best to have a second pihole.

woo, yay, I installed the new bookworm release on my Pi 4, and by default the desktop response was so slow that I restored back to buster, and it’s so much better again.

edit: I’m not saying to not try it, but there’s a data point if you experience the same thing. Use Win32DiskImager or something to make a backup image before so you can restore it if needed later.

I’m still running one on that, been going since they first came out.

WHAT?! I would have never guessed that. Lan has always seemed to be the one part that’s dependable, no matter what’s booting.

Guess it depends on hardware, I still had to add the wifi driver for bookworm.

I completely forgot there are laptops with no lan port now.

Debian guy could have saved time by connecting to lan after boot and installing the wifi package directly.

damn y’all don’t fuck around

Shouldn’t you lose your linux membership card for something like this?

Thank you again for the feedback!

I’ve already made changes to the script for it to work on LMDE. When I first tried it, it broke Wine and a number of other things because LMDE returns “faye” as the distro name, which doesn’t exist on any usual repository for Debian. So I had to make sure “bookworm” was used as a fallback, and reordered some things to consolidate user confirmations at the beginning so you can sit back afterward until it reboots.

Also figured out how to get and use the version number programmatically for VirtualBox toolset installs, so only one place needs editing when a new version of VBox is released.

And some other small things like installing GIMP and the plugin that gives it a Photoshop UI.

Still needs a Bluetooth handler and Firewall (for Debian), etc, still a WIP.

edit: just realized Debian already has a bluetooth handler, I missed it because i accidentally disabled sharing bluetooth devices with that VM!

Thank you again for the feedback!

Fortnite breaks

Good, probably for the best.

Again, it sounds like you are much more informed about it than me.

It only sounds like I know what I’m doing because I’ve just been doing base installs in VMs, letting them update, and then checking things like kernel options installed, etc, and comparing what apps are installed in some distros and left out of others from the main applications menu, then putting it in a spreadsheet so I can see what’s going on. You have way more practical experience than I do. I haven’t even tried any of these on actual hardware yet.

And as I was figuring that out at the Debian command line, I was just adding it all to a text file so I wouldn’t have to track down that exact info again, and then saved it as a script for automation.

If you want to see that install script, I put it here:

https://github.com/mateomaui/DebianInstall/blob/main/debian-install-3-apps-or-no-nvidia.sh

Has a commented summary of what it does at the beginning. Probably contains a lot of things you don’t care about, some are only in there for science. (I was adding most of the Ubuntu Studio package, for instance.) You mentioned a number of things you have installed that aren’t in there yet. I haven’t even tried nVidia drivers yet since it’s all been in VMs, that’s in a separate file for later. But you should be able to load Debian 12.2 in a VM and run this script, and it should install almost everything listed in there without a hitch. (There’s an occasional thing that requires downloading a certain version, and I don’t think it can be selected automatically. Like having to manually get the exact version of VirtualBox to download the right version toolset for it. I mention in the summary and comments where it happens.)

If you (or anyone) wants to contribute changes to that install script, feel free, I’m just working it out.

have mint debian edition installed

Oh that’s great, you’re exactly the one I need to talk to then, because I’ve been debating why even go with an Ubuntu-based distro at all when it’s based on Debian, and whether or not the Debian version would be a better choice. I’ve been running multiple VMs trying to work out the differences.

Before I found Debian Mint, I wrote a script for base Debian 12.2 to auto-install wine, steam, and everything else I could think of based on what’s in Linux Mint and Garuda… then discovered Debian Mint and have been wondering if that’s my best choice, because I have no idea what I could be missing in the background on my Debian install, or didn’t set up correctly because I don’t know about it.

I also noticed that Debian Mint currently uses a newer kernel than Ubuntu Mint… 6.1.0-13 vs 5.15.0. For a newer kernel than that you have to go with the Ubuntu Mint EDGE version (6.2.0) or Arch (6.1.57-lts or 6.5.7-zen).

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Has there been any particular thing you had to do to Debian Mint to make it work better for you?

Thank you! All the advertised built-in compatibility layers seemed too promising, so I’ve been wondering how often it breaks or doesn’t work as well as another distro. Also good to know the connect stuff can be added just by installing KDE. And Dolphin probably a better file manager.

What’s your preferred file manager, if you don’t mind?

I’m trying to narrow down today’s distro choices, would you mind telling why you switched away from Zorin?

To be clear, it may be a linux meme, but it’s a post about a possible future with Windows, that may lead some to switch to linux. Windows users being in here, commenting and asking questions, isn’t weird.

Couldn’t tell you, I’m on 10 myself because my laptop is old and doesn’t meet the TPM requirement. Which, tbh, is probably best.