Comment on The destructive desktop — Linux in trouble?parentComments−dman14yYou can still do all of that. NetworkManager is far from the only way to get your box to connect to the internet.−regularfry14yIt does have a tendency to intrude if you don't explicitly configure it not to, or remove it if you're not going to use it. I always forget to tell it not to configure /etc/resolv.conf, and always get confused when DNS lookup breaks.−dman14yapt-get purge it!
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You can still do all of that. NetworkManager is far from the only way to get your box to connect to the internet.
It does have a tendency to intrude if you don't explicitly configure it not to, or remove it if you're not going to use it. I always forget to tell it not to configure /etc/resolv.conf, and always get confused when DNS lookup breaks.
apt-get purge it!