• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      genuine advice, i recommend you get into the nitty gritty of linux someday.

      Guis, especially complex guis are just hell on earth. Actually sitting down and learning about what you’re doing, and familiarizing yourself with the underlying tools, is an incredibly good way to get around that problem.

      It’s really hard to fuck up a CLI, and it’s really easy with a certain level of knowledge, to navigate more complex topics and concepts. It’s very worthwhile.

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        2 months ago

        I am very much into the nitty gritty of Linux (I use Alpine fyi) the problem is, pf/opnsense aren’t based on Linux…

        And I also don’t really know how to set them up… Yk as routers, mainly because my internet comes through PPPoE and I just cannot for the life of me figure out how to pass that through to a VM. I bound the VM to its own NIC, did everything, did not work…

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          the problem is, pf/opnsense aren’t based on Linux…

          oh, well in that case you should fuck around with BSD someday, i’ve been meaning to do so, just haven’t gotten around to it. the various BSDs are the siblings of linux.

          as for all of the networking side of things, networking is just a nightmare, that’s just something you have to learn about. Setting up your own local network to figure out how things work in a sterile controlled environment would be good.

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            I already have my own network with stuff and things… it’s mostly just the simple stuff (TrueNAS scale, pihole, wireguard, nextcloud and other things like that). But yeah, outside my mac, I have literally 0 experience with BSD…