Good morning, afternoon or evening people of Zorin OS Forum . I hope you are having a great week
Today I come to ask for help because a terrible but peculiar problem arose with this distribution.
I lack a USB WiFi adapter so I opted to use my cell phone to provide internet via a shared USB connection. This never presented any problems and worked quite well; until now
When I started the computer this morning the connection suddenly stopped working. My first thought was that it was the cell phone or home internet; things I quickly dismissed after briefly browsing it.
Then I noticed something curious. Telegram desktop and the Tor browser were working fine.
I tried deleting the connection profile and creating it again; disabling the firewall and restarting the computer several times. But nothing works, any idea what could be happening?
Unfortunately it did not work, most of the system is still unable to connect to the internet.
I was looking around the web for someone who has had a similar problem and came across a post on the Linux Mint forums. It is in Spanish, but the user describes exactly the same problem I have. Unfortunately he didn't come up with a solution other than reinstalling the whole system from scratch.
I believe that you said the same - except that running your updates re-asserted the issue.
I wonder if you could note the updates so we could review the list. That way, you may only need to put an apt mark hold on the offending package.
