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OP will have to close the Lemmy tab to do further research

After seeing it only has 2gb of RAM does it really matter? Guessing a Pentium of some kind..

The login portal is hosted on the private network and known by the private network's DNS service. By bypassing the DNS server(s) provided by the hotel's network and using your own DNS you cannot obtain the login portal. That is unless you know the address of the portal and can enter it manually.

Reference your threat model, but the quick fix here is to connect without custom DNS or VPN, complete the login portal, and then change DNS settings/activate VPN.

Source: Work at a hotel, help people with this all the time.

I did something similar. Everybody is different so maybe not the best option for you, but who knows.

I have a single mini PC that handles my stack of virtual machines hosting various things. For the main OS I went with Fedora KDE. I chose something with a GUI for two reasons, the primary being that sometimes.. Maybe not as often as you get more familiar, but sometimes there is an easier way to accomplish something in the GUI than in the CLI. Things like system settings. You can save a lot of time looking up commands and syntax by flipping a switch in the settings application.

Second and most important reason for the GUI, I watch TV on this thing. Which I would not recommend if you are hosting anything that can't handle a little downtime. Once in a while a web browser may hang, bluetooth could fail, and you end up having to restart. Nothing I host is critical to anybody so this isn't a big deal to me. I also find a little inner peace knowing that I am interacting with the main system controlling these hosts on a daily basis. If it does get compromised in some way this makes it just a little more likely I will notice quickly.

So that's the hardware system and I'm running Libvirt as the hypervisor. It's pretty bare bones, but easy to use and gets the job done. Hardest step to me was generating SSH certificates/keys. Not that it was hard moreso just new to me. Libvirt will not allow you to connect remotely with plain text. So regardless of your threat model this is a required step if you want remote access to the hypervisor remotely.

If you make it that far you can start really getting into the weeds with networking. I'm not going to go into the topology of my network, but I will say if you are hosting anything public you should do as much as possible to isolate that from your home network. You can create a VM to act as a firewall/router for other VMs.

Sometimes people ask others instead of googling things because it offers an opportunity to socialize. We all know google is an option. I get what you're saying, but it's sad to see this described as a burden.

Not typically what you'd think of when somebody says "mom's computer," but this is exactly what happens when my GPU overheats. Monitors stay on with black screen and no response from keyboard input.

This happens to me once in a while with Fedora KDE. Usually right after a kernel update and I can resolve by going back to the previous kernel for a few days. Always guessed it was the AMD GPU driver.

I came here to say this also. First bad update and then both would be broken and pretty stressful for your friend...

Pile in if I'm wrong, but I dual boot win11 and linux it works fine. The only condition is it has to be separate physical disk. I wasn't able to use the same hard drive with just partitions had to be completely different drives.

Did you try dual boot with one drive? Windows will fuck that up.

I didn't have any intention of arguing..I was curious what you didn't like about it. You're entitled to your opinion.

What did Fedora do to hurt you so much?