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And here I was thinking people were about to move to
systemd-networkdso network would actually work decently on the Linux desktop and then I remembered that GNOME comes with the bs called network-manager.God i hate network manager and the vpnc plugin specifically. Its been broken for almost 2 years. You cannot add a vpnc vpn in network manager.
What's broken? I just added a vpnc connection on my machine (granted can't test it since I have nothing to connect to) but there was a vpnc connection profile until I deleted it.
Context. Still broken in 23.04
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-vpnc/-/issues/8
What distro? Might be gnome only. Im on latestest budgie and cant add. Theres github issues etc. I can edit the file by hand and it works so no biggie but its a long standing issue
OK, I tested this on Plasma.
Yea im currently looking into a diff distro
I use both depending on the device. My desktop at home and all servers use systemd-networkd and I'm very happy with it. Right now, I'm on vacation and NetworkManager comes in very helpful with the ability to quickly manage networks as a normal user with a graphical user interface.
Question is: why can't the GNOME people that are so eager to reinvent everything dedicate a few bucks out of their new 1M€ funding and integrate it with
systemd-networkdand ditch the old NetworkManager for good. That thing is inconsistent and to make things worse now we've the "new network settings" with some settings and then the NetworkManager window/GUI with more settings and things are as coherent as Windows 10's new Settings vs Control Panel... Fucks sake GNOME.For what's worth in Windows I can pull the old Control Panel Network Connections settings go into properties and manage everything network adapters have to over with a simple tab based navigation. In GNOME right now it is a shit show of jumping around between the GNOME Settings and the older NetworkManager GUI to end up not being able to easily get a VLAN tag on some connection.
Why would they ditch NetworkManager though? What's everyone's issue with it?
I just told you a few...