On Ma, 28 sep 21, 10:28:49, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/28/21, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:00:47AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:41:22AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 04:47:07PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > >> > > >> > [...] > >> > > >> > > And N-M is not "buggy". [...] > >> > > >> > Uh-huh. > >> > >> What a great argument! > > > > I don't care very much about N-M. It's not the kind of software I > > enjoy. Too complex for my taste. De gustibus... > > > I started to chime in last night, but my brain took a vacation. Maybe > the "complex" was what happened to me, too. > > Last night I was only going to say "nm" didn't used to (and may still > not) play nice with similar packages installed on the same machine. It > was an either/or situation. I took the "or" with wicd then wicd-curses > and have never looked back. With me it was the other way around. I tried wicd, mostly based on the bad reputation of Network Manager, but it was unreliable when switching between wired and wireless. Eventually I switched to Network Manager and never had any significant problem since. This was on unstable, somewhere around the release of wheezy, and I would frequently switch the laptop between wired and wireless. > That's with hardwires, though. I haven't > had an excuse to spend time duking it out with attaching wireless. Wouldn't bother with a "heavy" manager for wired only. ifupdown and more recently systemd-networkd is more than enough. > What fried my brain last night was on trying to remember if nm had > been too "complicated" and thus not user-friendly for *me*. I still > see other people rave about it. That's cool. At the end of the day, it > means our brains function (comprehend) differently, but we all seem to > be arriving at the same place: Connected to whatever it is we need to > use. That's where the beauty of Debian offering CHOICE comes into > play. For me it's just a piece of software that does what I need it to do. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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