Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 15:11:20 +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: >> NetworkManager is the "default" (whatever "default" means) as it serves >> well the need of many users to connect a client machine to the Internet. > > It's only the "default" if a Desktop Environment is installed. On a > Standard Debian installation (e.g. one you'd use for servers), NM is > not installed at all.
when it got installed i masked it out and continued my manual ways as i don't want an automatic network connection coming up. i don't always do things on-line so i don't want a connection just sitting there doing nothing but getting probes and messages from the bozo's doing whatever on the local ISP network. > Worry less about what the "default" is, because the entire concept of > defaults is extremely vague in Debian. Debian offers a multitude > of choices. Worry more about how to solve *your* own problems, using > whichever solution is most suitable. yes. :) and then try to remember what you've done that isn't quite normal... some years later you may forget and i don't write all my stuff down. next time i do a clean install i'll have to keep a better log of my local changes. i have a lot of things masked out from systemd that i don't use. songbird
