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I wanted to have a separate laptop where I only use the terminal for my use cases. At the moment I am somewhat confident using the terminal, but I think limiting myself to tty only would build my confidence even more. Any tips?

EDIT: I am already using nvim and I already have installed a minimal distro (Arch). I just need advice on how to actually run this system effectively.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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