New to linux, installed Ubuntu but have issues every restart. (piefed.social)

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As above switched to Linux and i am enjoying it i picked Ubuntu as TBH it was the first I came across. The last two times it has prompted me to update has caused a drama. First would only give me a black screen of text so I did a reinstall.

The latest one went fine it updated to 6.17.0-94 but i lost all networking no wifi By the looks of it the problem I have is i have an older device that has nvidia 580 graphics card. I have rolled back for now but questions are;

Is there a way to pre-emt this, as i feel now as soon as i restart it will jump back up and leave me without networking to resolve. its quite a faff trying to find out what to do on my mobile and typing it in the terminal.

Is it better to fix or try another distro?

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[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know which network manager Ubuntu uses, so I'm not sure whether this applies to you. I'm using Arch with the network manager systemd-networkd. I set it up manually from the CLI by creating a so called .network file in the /etc/systemd/network/ folder.

To "setup" and start using systemd-networkd, do sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-networkd.service. You will probably also need to setup systemd-resolved with sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved.service because some services and/or programs need this for domain name resolution.

Then, check out point 3.5 on this page in the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-networkd

Use the section that applies to your setup depending on whether you are wired, wireless or both.

This of course assumes that Ubuntu doesn't use another network manager.

[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Here is a list of common Linux network managers if the above wouldn't apply.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Network_managers

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