[ale] ot: rant ... just little :)

[Jim Kinney]

On February 16, 2015 12:59:45 PM EST, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>On 2015-02-16 09:42, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> Just read this on Linux news site ... Setting a static IP on Ubuntu:
>a
>> beginner's guide
>> 
>> Remember days when you had to open proper file and edit it to get
>> connected. Do we teach good linux habits or thinking if you want with
>> making things easy ... Using network manager for example
>
>I think Network Manager makes a lot of things harder than it should be.


It makes the easy stuff harder but it also makes it harder to screw up.  If using the CLI, it "understands" more than most people and won't let you write a config that's fundamentally broken.  That's good and bad.
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