It really messes with me that there’s a US state and also a country named Georgia (and there’s also South Georgia which is off the coast of Antarctica).
One of the network managers is apparently set to enable DHCP on the interface it manages, that’s the only reason that I can think of why a device set with a static IP is switching to using DHCP.
You’re going to want to check the systemd units (sudo systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled, if that doesn’t work you can replace the state flag with –no_pager and grep for enabled ) to see what is managing the interface(s) and then ensure that their config is set to static. You may have two conflicting services like systemd-networkd and NetworkManager fighting.
Install stuff, try and make it better but end up breaking it horribly, and then spend time fixing it. This is how I’ve learned everything over the years.
I distro hopped for a few years but eventually settled on Arch over a decade ago. It was a lot more difficult to install back then, but it will still get you comfortable with the CLI if you’re not comfortable with it already. Also, if you don’t know already, Arch pretty much has the best Wiki available and it works with almost all distros since most only differ in package management.
I actually got heavy into Linux during my freshman year of college (2004) back when Linux wasn’t supported for most things, so I wiped Windows off of my PC, and forced myself to use Ubuntu for 2 months, which required me to figure out how to install WINE and Microsoft Office. It was a pain, and after two months I put Windows back on it for dual-boot and ease of use purposes but largely used Linux once I got over the learning hump.
I’d suggest setting up a Level 1 hypervisor like VMware or Proxmox so that you can have multiple things running at once independent of each other, but a Level 2 hypervisor like KVM works just as well, but you have to make sure that you don’t break the host OS somehow hahaha
I used nano for years until I forced myself to learn the basics of vi(m), now whenever something opens nano by default it annoys me and I immediately change the editor to vim 😂
Yeah. When I first heard about South Georgia I was confused because I wasn’t sure if they were referring to the southern part of the state or country… But it was neither. It’s an island about 1,000 miles off the coast of Antarctica.
The cabinet could be 20 feet tall and they’d still figure out how to get up there.
My parents have 4 cats and these ones are a lot different than all of the other cats we’ve had over the decades. My parents have a wall mounted cabinet where the bottom portion is about 5 feet off the ground and the top of it is about 8 feet off the ground. There’s about 6-9" between the top and the ceiling, and various decorations up there… The kitchen table is about a foot in front of it, at normal height, about 3-4 feet from the ground.
One day I noticed one of the cats was on top of the cabinet! That’s a good 6 foot jump at a steep angle (100°, 110°? I suck at Trig) and she didn’t move a single decoration!