> Imagine recommending with a straight face that someone go to starbucks and manually edit wpa_supplicant.conf to get onto the wifi. Editing config files is no

> Imagine recommending with a straight face that someone go to starbucks and manually edit wpa_supplicant.conf to get onto the wifi. Editing config files is not specific to TUI, you can do it even with GUI editor, and you have to if you want to do anything more complicated with your computer, like route some traffic over VPN and some not, or have a dynamic VPN setup based on what wifi network you're connected to. Also in the TUI land, there's iwd these days which has nicer end-user text mode UI than wpa_cli, with one command to start a scan, and another to connect. There's also wifi-menu, or nmtui. All pretty much equivalent to the GUI wifi selection menus people use on windows.