Hello nixers,
Which network manager do you use and is there any reasons for it.

There are a lot of options out there to configure wifi, ethernet, dns, ip, vpn, proxies, etc.. all in one place. We call the softwares handling this network managers.

You can do it manually by using wpa_supplicant, or ip, or whatnot.
You can use a terminal cli or curses such ass wifi-menu, nmcli, or nmtui.
You can use a graphical network manager such as the one that comes with the gnome desktop environment or the one that comes with KDE plasma.

There's more info on the Arch wiki however I'm looking for the reasons you use what you use.

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On my side, I use wifi-menu which is a simple curses wrapper over /etc/netctl (netctl) and wpa_supplicant. This only manages wifi and doesn't allow much configuration. As for ethernet I do it manually.

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So nixers, what network managers do you use?