Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

> I've personally dropped NetWork Manager where I need Wireless/WPA2.
I found it very unstable, to the point I had to restart networking every 10 minutes.

Newer versions are much better then older versions. I don't know were the cut-off point was.
With the old stuff I totally abandoned it and went with the Debian-style configuration and
wpasupplicant, which was very good. But there was a big version change that pretty much solved
every issue I had with it, mostly except...



> I would prefer NW used flatfiles that are easily editable via a CLI.


OH YES FFS!

Configuration files are a godsend. Nobody has any business making any sort of serious utility
or tool that can not be configured by a text editor. It's just criminal to do anything else.  

:)