> My choice of distros is more driven by networking issues, but my 
>

 Networking issues are a pretty big deal to me, too. I live in hotels 
roughly 40 weeks out of each year, and swapping around has been... iffy.

I've had a love-hate relationship with NetworkManager, over the years, and 
grew to despise it in GnomeShell. For a while I was having trouble with the 
wifi driver (unsupported, mostly) for my laptop--constant disconnects, 
refusal to reconnect--and tried Wicd as a supplement. When NM went 
pear-shaped, I could stop the driver, start Wicd, and pretty much keep 
working.

Really unstable, between the two of them.

With my current Gnomeless install, Wicd just seems to work. It's even 
dealing with the Mac router at my in-laws' house, which kept dropping NM 
down to 1KB speeds. Wicd hasn't had or caused any issues.

One thing I did love about Mageia, btw, was the NetworkManager interface. 
Man[drake|driva|geia] always did some nice and useable extensions to the 
base tools.

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