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Every OS has papercuts like this. Want me to write a story about Linux or Windows that is equally painful? Pick your poison .. i've dealt with it all.
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Sure, when was the last time a Linux update overwrote your DNS resolver settings?

A trivial search can find examples of Linux updates breaking all sorts of things, like wifi and other drivers/firmware.

Today, literally today. My pihole updated, broke its own dns, stopped working, and broke dns for every device on my network.

PiHole is a Linux kernel now?

macOS ain’t kernel either, XNU is the kernel of macOS. what is it you are comparing.

Pihole's not an OS, it's an application/service.

A month ago my debian 13 laptop out of the complete blue decided it wanted zero DNS. Might have been an update that did it I am not sure.

I was unable to resolve it and ended up reinstalling.


You must be using some flavor that doesn't have systemd, at least. Or a Linux from a decade ago.

Doesnt systemd fuck with resolv.conf?

Also, I have had many system updates that broke my X11 config




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