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by loftsy 5231 days ago
tl;dr - Author tries to patch together his/her own distribution; and fails.

To provide a good user experience you need to know if the network is up or down; and when it changes. UNIX does not provide this. This is why NetworkManger is now part of the "Linux Platform".

The biggest myth in open source: "Linux is about choice".

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if I could downvote.

Linux is always about choice. If you have enough information and time you can choose what ever software stack you want with it. You can even change any configuration software that comes with your distribution with any tool you want.

Also author does not rant about building a self owned distribution. The rant can even be considered good if you do think Linux is only about graphical desktop applications. Linux software can be configured or used without these but it's getting real hard to disregard their influence over other software.

Yes I was but I couldn't find it. Thanks for the reference :)