Lol, I AM using Linux for the first time. But yea, I’m trying to use the most user-friendly things to accomplish what I want to do. Thanks anyway for trying. :)

ifconfig gives "command not found, but can be installed with sudo apt net-tools. That command gives me "Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.ubuntu.com’

ip addr gives:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu ##### qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute

valid_lft forever preffered_lft forever

2: wlp02s20f3: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether [MAC Address] brd [IPv6 MAC Address]

4: enx949aa9857457: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether [MAC Address] brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

the Wifi adapter is recognized, but if I try to ping ANYTHING, including the gateway, I get “ping: connect: network is unreachable”

I was following this walk-through (https://lemmy.world/post/6542543) for getting Docker and all its container apps set up, so that’s why I went with Ubi Server. I downloaded 24.04 as its the latest version. Would Mint be able to substitute Server for those things?

My Daily Driver has Mint on it and its working just fine. If I can use Mint instead of Server, that’d make things so much easier.

When I try [sudo nmtui] it gives me "Command nmtui not found, but can be installed with: [sudo apt install network-manager].

Which circles me back to my original problem where I don’t have network connectivity.