[throwaway2331]

My main gripe hasn't been that I want something done an exact way. It's that I want to achieve some semblance of what I'm trying to do in a reasonable amount of time.

NetworkManager is god awful in this regard. Even for simple desktop uses, if I want something more advanced than simply connecting to the Wi-Fi (even this requires finagling), then I'm fucked.

For example, I've been trying to find what it is that keeps overwriting /etc/resolv.conf.

After reading through various man pages and online forums, I still don't know. Instead, I just stick to one access point, and manually write to /etc/resolv.conf everytime I boot.

Compare this to OpenBSD: nothing fucking touches my /etc/resolv.conf. That file is mine. I write to it and other daemons read from it.

[tremon]

I've been trying to find what it is that keeps overwriting /etc/resolv.conf

  chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

and watch the logs for errors/crashing services. It's sad, I know, but sometimes you do need a landmine to identify the trespassers.