Awesome! Yep, definitely been there before too. Sometimes premature optimization gets you into more trouble: trying to set up something minimal when the conventional, more widely used approach “just works”.

I will say you build more of an appreciation for how everything works when you have to struggle a bit. Especially networking. I was setting up a static IP the other day and took me more time than I care to admit to figure out it was a 0 instead of a 1 in my gateway. But I took some notes so next time I have to do that hopefully it’ll go a bit smoother.

Have you been able to try the troubleshooting steps outlined in the Network configuration page on the wiki?

I would want to see all upstream updates for anything installed on my system to avoid even considering a partial upgrade.

You don’t know why you prefer Archiso?

I second this. Until I have a solid use case for archiso, I strongly prefer tracking my dotfiles + installed packages and manually provisioning a fresh install.

It serves a web GUI

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