Or like Fedora (and I’m sure more distros) nicely asks you if you want to update in a user initiated restart or shutdown, and if you say yes it does just that and updates to restart or shut down. My memories with Windows are having to remain in front of the computer to make sure I can turn it off after it reboots multiple times to update.

You’re so nice. Here they have deserved a C- for at least the last 5 years, and declined to a D during the last 2.

You must be the one person I’ve ever seen saying that. I remember up to windows 7 and some time with 10 that updates would just wait for you (assuming you configured it to wait) and I would update when ready to shit down. But I’ve seen 10/11 just kick people out over an update way too many times to know it’s. I configured my wife’s computer to not update at all unless I actively told it to, and it she woke up to windows 11 one day (which I appreciate because that was the trigger for her to love to Fedora, lol).

IKEA has a nice offer on new Fedora and Debian spins 🤣🤣

I use Tubular, and this fork crashes hard when I import my DB (regardless of if I import the settings as well or not). Guess I’ll stay on Tubular since it just works (for now).

Yeah, KDE’s customization is overwhelming in my opinion. I like my OS like I like my boss: “support me, get out of my way, and let me do my work”. Gnome does exactly that.

They work on any other distro I’ve tried. OpenSUSE is the only one that never gets an address. Static or DHCP, doesn’t make a difference. I’ll try again with your suggestion from a USB drive, since I don’t remember all the things I tried that did nothing to help. Thanks.

Could be. What blows my mind is that both my PC and laptop work on Fedora, PopOS, Endeavour, and Bazzite out of the box, but network is fully broken, LAN and WiFi.

Yeah, I’m basically married to Fedora at this point.

Could that be my issue? I’ve always done Gnome. WiFi is always broken. Network in general really.

I’ve tried it a few times over the years, but always find it clunky when coming from Fedora, so I end up jumping right back. It’s also a real shitshow with my System 76 laptop WiFi, just doesn’t play nice and takes to much work to make it functional.

OpenSUSE is hardly what I would consider noob friendly, but it certainly beats remaining under Microsoft’s oppressing thumb.

You are a man of culture. Great choice.

I did too, but never cared again after my wife finally switched over to Fedora. I have nobody else that I care about enough using windows.

Yeah, when forced to use Windows it’s way worse because we know the other end of the spectrum.

I know, the irony.

You have the option to get a solid hardware that you can install openwrt on, and then use the Deco mesh just for the Wifi. That’ll give you similar, if not the same results, and save you a few bucks in the process.

I just started migrating my network from PFSense, a bunch of tplink switches and Aruba InstantOn APs to unifi. I’m almost done (just missing a couple of APs more and 1 more switch), and I honestly am extremely happy with the decision. The Unifi APs are not as powerful as the Arubas, but the improvements to the performance of my network more than makes up for that.

I apologize. I misunderstood that you were looking for a mesh system that would work with an existing openwrt router. Seems what you’re looking for is a mesh system that can be flashed with openwrt.

For that I can only suggest that you look at the supported hardware table and see if you can find what you need.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start

Editing my previous comment for my mistake.

If you’re not looking to segregate your network or any other “advanced” network feature, you can’t really get better value that Tplink Deco.

Edit: I misunderstood what the op was asking for. This answer is not valid for that.