Hello, - As a GUI alternative to NetworkManager; Wicd has been mentionned, but there is also Connman - the GUI part of NetworkManager (the gnome applet: network-manager-gnome) is not mandatory: there are TUI (nmtui) and CLI (nmcli) interfaces included in the NetworkManager base package (network-manager) - In my opinion, it would probably be simpler to use only NetworkManager than NetworkManager and /etc/interfaces in your use case