Replace network-manager with Wicd in 9.10.01 (Page 1 of 2)

I tend to agree. I've used wicd for a long time and many distros use it as their default. Network Manager has a few advantages though especially in terms of making 3G connections.

Overall though I think Network Manager is a sound default and it can be easily swapped for Wicd if that is your preference after install.

Prefer Network Manager. I like WICD because I can associate with a particular mac address -- network manager is so so promiscuous.

I don't like Wicd because it doesn't know about other types of networks and it seems like it can only connect to one network at a time. I like to share wireless via ethernet or gprs via wireless/ethernet and I haven't figured out how to do this with Wicd.

You have my vote for this too. Wicd rules!

i use wicd but only because i use slim so network manager insists on asking me for passwords.

shall we start a slim v gdm thread ?

Do you guys know there's a utility called 'apt-get' ?  You can install whatever you want.

We can also all install Ubuntu minimal and make our own #! remixes

The point of threads like these is to consider using different programs as the default choice.

Don't know... i always used network manager. If it handles more connections types it would be wise to keep it as the deafault choice.

is it just me or does wicd feel unresponsive from time to time ?
It can only do one thing at a time...

but: +1 for wicd

Considered Crunchbang is really shining on netbooks, wouldn't it be wise to keep the nm-applet for mobile broadband as default?

Personally, I use wicd, but as qbrick mentions, #! is being used more and more on netbooks and/or laptops, making nm-applet a better choice.

Now while I know that people have mentioned adding a means to alter, add or remove apps during installation, what about a script that might simply do so post installation? It might be easier to code. If not, then we simply can modify our setup on our own. It's easy enough. But it wouldn't really be that difficult for some of the scriptmasters to actually whip something up either

To backup the first reply, in my (limited) experience it's a lot easier to replace network manager with wicd than vice versa. Keep the status quo.

I used to be a big fan of wicd and have suggested before here to use it as the default. These days I just leave network manager installed. It has improved dramatically over the last year or so and now has superior features to wicd already mentioned in this thread.

Unless I need to wicd to solve a hardware issue with nm I just leave the default the way it is on a new install. It doesn't get much easier than 'sudo apt-get install wicd' if you decide to use it at some stage down the track.