okay… I’m beginning to grasp the most basic… but i have a lot more to learn 
Thanks… good to know
oh, you meant the network setup… Then i get it 
as I’m the strange 
GUI nerd… i use the Network manager to configure the connections.
I tried dnfdragora (installed from the AlmaLinux Synergy repo) and I have the same errors as you.
It is trying to fetch the mirror list from the Rocky Base repo but it fails because it is trying to use ‘BaseOS-9$rltype’ instead of ‘BaseOS-9’ as the repo name.
Opening the URL without $rltype in a web browser returns a list of mirrors as expected, so it’s not the server’s fault.
This looks like a bug/incompatibility in dnfdragora.
okay… interesting… It can be some config file or data file for dnfdragora, that might be possible to edit…
I have shut down my Rocky computer for the night (4:19am here in sweden now)
Friendly advice: it will take you less time and effort to learn DNF CLI than to debug dnfdragora.
Gnome Software will show you some apps that are available from the repos. (I’m not sure what criteria is used to filter which packages are shown in the GUI).
A lot of software is only available via flatpak though, so make sure that the Flathub remote is added to your flatpak configuration.
Also make sure to add common repos to your DNF repo list:
EPEL
RPMFusion
AlmaLinux Synergy (for the odd package that isn’t in EPEL yet).
or i can stay on debian and use Synaptic package manager 
thing is that if dnfdragora works as synaptic package manager… then its a good tool to search among packages if you look for drivers or other packages… it gives a hundred times better overview then a terminal window ever can…
as for Gnome software… that one is good for searching for programs… but not other system packages.
so that is why i want to try to get dnfdragora to work as i hope it is as good as Synaptic package manager are.
So i know how Apt work… and i have a feeling dnf works more or less the same… as search and that works… even it dont works as well as in synaptic package manager… as its also searches on the meta data and not only on the package name and first short package description.
dnf search searches meta data as well as package names.
Personally I find DNF much easier to use than apt.
Terminal was fun in the late 80’s… and then in the late 90’s everything became GUI based… and i agree, The Terminal is a powerful tool.
but the terminal sucks… it looks bad, it has a resolution as computers had back in the late 80’s… you have a poor overview… it seldom works with a mouse.
So even Terminal and powershell are powerful tools for troubleshooting… i always prefer a GUI as it just looks better and you dont have to have half arch wiki in your head or five cheat-sheets next to you.
So i will continue on the dnfdragora journey or if i find another similar GUI based package manager
On a server where you dont interact more then maintenance… a Terminal works fine as you dont spend so much time on them.
Gnome Terminal allows you to change the size and type of font. I’m quite sure that resolution is not the same on 4k display than what it was on 640x400 monitor.
The cat and mouse is already a “graphical editor” to me. 
A fundamental difference between CLI and GUI is that on former you can type whatever, while the latter offers more limited set of things to choose from. The “whatever” can be nonsense, so finding out the valid things one can type is the challenge. The “limited set” might omit things that you want to do. On CLI you don’t know what to do. On GUI you can’t do them. Pick your poison.
Furthemore, it is easier to store the choices you make (the things you type) on CLI. That makes them “cheap” to reproduce.
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