An enlightening article that explains why I think I am losing my mind every time I try to get the network configured correctly on any number of distros. My main

An enlightening article that explains why I think I am losing my mind every time I try to get the network configured correctly on any number of distros. My main take home is to never install NetworkManager or a resolvconf and to avoid systemd if at all possible, unless I absolutely know that I am going to need those state of the art DNS capabilities. I have mostly managed to avoid resolv.conf issues since the default Gentoo image has a sane setup (even if using dhcp on a laptop and switching wifi and wired). However, every single time I have tried to set up a system using another distro something has gone wrong, and in support of the theory that NetworkManager is a major contributor to the problem the one Gentoo system with NetworkManager installed had the same issues. To echo the plea in the original article, in nearly every case the primary challenge has been to figure out exactly what documentation actually applies to the system at hand because distros seem to change this completely out of sync with any attempt to correct or align the documentation. I suspect that on an individual user level this leads to a happy path situation where everyone who does the right thing by accident is quiet and the ones who need something slightly different are never heard from because they weren't able to even connect to the internet (probably not quiet that bad).