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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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This is not true.
Especially nowadays network manager handles all that stuff. Nmcli or nmtui make it beyond easy and I haven’t messed with wpa_supplicant in about ten years.
There is some truth to it. If you are installing a server distro it may not come with nmcli by default. Maybe it will. But good to think about