I was pleasantly surprised with Evolution the last time I tried to use Gnome, it used to be a buggy, bloated mess. But alas, I can’t manage to use Gnome for more than a release or two. Now I’m looking for a decent Wayland native alternative to Thunderbird, but it just doesn’t exist without DE bloat at this point. Maybe someone will build a modern replacement for Sylpheed/Claws.
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Ok, so the resolv.conf is being used to put systemd-resolved in the forwarding path, with it listening on 127.0.0.53. That’s how Mint does things, so don’t touch that file.
Your resolved.conf has no DNS servers or fallback DNS servers configured, so it should just use the DNS servers handed out by DHCP. Either your DHCP servers isn’t handing out a DNS server (unlikely, since other machines work), NetworkManager was configured to not use DHCP DNS servers, or you’re hitting some bug causing the same. I suspect you may have configured NetworkManager for this, maybe it was overriding the VPN DNS. Or maybe you accidentally set the NetworkManager DNS backend to dnsmasq, when it should be systemd-resolved in Mint.
You could try uncommenting that FallbackDNS line and adding a couple space separated DNS servers, maybe your router IP. Mine looks like this:
#DNS= FallbackDNS=1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 #Domains=
That will hopefully allow VPN DNS to work when it’s connected, and fall back to other DNS servers when not. If not, we could try taking a look at NetworkManager configs. It’s been a bit, I use systemd-networkd now, but I could spin up a VM.
If you wanted to, you could post your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/systemd/resolved.conf here. I don’t know if there might be a configuration directory option for systemd-resolved, so keep an eye out for a potential directory like /etc/systemd/resolved.d that might have the configs instead.
Did you ever come back to this and figure it out? My curiosity is killing me :)
And I think it’s probably not in resolv.conf, that’s a stub that kind of redirects things to systemd-resolved. So I think it’s in the forwarder config of that.
Be careful, I was just looking over the Arch docs I linked you to, and I think the configs have changed substantially in the last few months. There’s a good chance that the configs in Mint look substantially different.
Agreed, though I don’t think they disabled systemd-resolved, because it still works using 127.0.0.53 when they’re connected to the VPN. So the daemon must be running, unless Mullvad itself has a DNS forwarder using the same loopback. I suspect they either hard coded some upstream DNS server for Mullvad, because Mullvad might not have supported systemd-resolved yet. Or maybe they set a permission on the configs, and something changed with the user context of Mullvad processes.
Interesting that it works when the VPN is connected, though. I also believe that systemd-resolved is installed on just about any system using systemd, but often isn’t enabled, without problem. Enabling it would generally involve a resolv.conf symlink and a config, so maybe that config was hijacked by Mullvad (or OP configuring Mullvad), and there’s no upstream DNS server available when the VPN isn’t connected.
I missed that it’s Linux Mint in the original post, and it looks like Mint has started using systemd-resolved. The Arch wiki might be useful to OP on how things are configured:
Ok, so something setup 127.0.0.53 as your DNS server, and isn’t removing it correctly. I think it’s safe to say it’s Mullvad, since it works using that DNS server IP when connected. Is that IP in your resolv.conf, or is resolv.conf maybe a stub, and you’re using systemd-resolved?
Ok, so does the VPN bring it’s own DNS? Some VPNs do, so it may explain why everything suddenly works fine when you connect.
When not connected to VPN, are you able to dig or nslookup internet names? Local names? A server timeout will be very different from an nxdomain or an empty SOA, in the response.
Are you able to telnet to a public web server on TCP/443?
One thought I’m having is, maybe at some point you set a static IP on your wifi interface, but screwed up the subnetting.
Have you ever messed with network manager or systemd-resolved internal settings, maybe trying to setup multicast DNS or caching?
I’ve been using Thinkpads since the X61s, and used the trackpoint extensively back in the day. Hell, I had the X61s that didn’t even have a
trackpoint(edit: didn’t have a trackpad), and I rarely used a mouse with it.But I really don’t understand how anyone still uses the thing extensively. Once in awhile I’ll use it for some bit of specific precision work when I don’t have a mouse handy. I feel like the Trackpoint quality has gone down significantly over the years, and stuff like anti-drift seems to have been neglected.
If not for the horrible arrow keys that I already hate on my Macbook Air, I was all for this transition. I’d much rather have a great trackpad at this point. I want something more compact than a Framework, and I’m comfortable with Lenovo’s Linux support at this point.
Honestly, I never really use it untethered enough to give you a good answer. But I can say that notebookcheck’s battery tests are pretty good, and they test enough laptops to compare well across a large number of models and generations.
I’d say if you get a Ryzen, yeah. I have a P14s gen4 AMD that I use for my primary machine, and game on successfully. But I also have an old T14s gen1 AMD that work let me keep when I got refreshed. Right now I have Windows on it, to play some games that don’t work well in Proton, but it works fine in Linux as well.
If you can swing it, the T14s gen3 with a Ryzen 7 6850u was a truly excellent machine, it’s what I have for work right now. But we won’t see it coming off lease for another couple years, so it’s a bit early for good prices on the used market.
Just grab a 3-4 year old 13" business class laptop, like a Thinkpad X13. When they come off lease at 3-4 years, they hit the used market at pretty great prices. Some are in rough shape, but use trusted sellers who sell at reasonable volume, and their condition grading tends to be pretty reliable.
Be careful about upgradable RAM, or getting at least 16GB. It sounds like you’d be fine with 8GB for now, but 16GB will get you better life out of the machine.
You may want to replace the SSD straight away, depending on the write cycles. I’d probably just grab one with 256GB, and get a replacement straight away. Lenovo has all their hardware maintenance manuals online, to make checking compatibility and performing the upgrade pretty easy.
Hopefully they plan to stabilize what they see as core functionality, and then build out features. Some people won’t consider it ready until this or that feature is added, but many of us who just want a WM+ can start using it once it’s relatively stable.
Ok, but you’re still dealing with the guest desktop as a windowed container. Unity mode in VMware presents individual windows to the desktop environment, not the entire desktop.
Things like Distrobox will obviously be better for most Linux on Linux workloads, but for BSD or Windows, it’s pretty damned cool.
But they don’t break windows from within the guest, into the host desktop environment. You see the entire desktop as a container.
It really depends, but generally, I want to use as much Linux as possible, and for me a bigger part of that is the UI than the hypervisor.
Microsoft pays extra attention to Ubuntu LTS and RHEL. Not my first choices, but in particular you’ll see stuff like AAD auth on Azure VPN supported on Ubuntu LTS. There will also be some work going into proper Intune support, if that matters.
I would prefer Fedora or Debian for a more stable environment, and use Arch at home, but we have to keep interoperability in mind sometimes.
Another thing to look into, and I really hate to since Broadcom bought them, but you can run Windows inside VMWare, and use unity mode to break individual windows out into your DE. Beware of the new licensing.
What’s your use case that OSMC and LibreELEC don’t work? I think those are going to be common recommendations, so knowing why they don’t suit you would be helpful.
Now if only I could get a meaningful reply to a bug preventing complete account deletion, either on github or from support. It seems they modeled their support structure on Google’s.