What's Zig Forums's opinion on NetworkManager?

I fired up a debian live USB on my T60 yesterday to do some testing. At some point networkmanager disabled wifi for no discernible reason and would not bring it back up. After a few minutes I gave up and plugged in the Ethernet cable. The applet was still frozen and didn't acknowledge that it was connected, but I was online again.
That same machine normally runs Gentoo, where I use the standard netifrc initscripts, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd to control networking. Everything about that setup works perfectly 100% of the time.

i had to remove some checksum in WPA (probably making the connection insecure but whatever) in wpa_supplicant in order to connect to some network once. maybe only some special snowflake macfag crap could connect to it, or my drivers were broken. wireless is dickballs. if i had network manager it would have just taken an extra 5 hourse to work out what the problem was

I didn't like NetworkManager until today until I switched it over to IWD. wpa_supplicant has always been a buggy piece of shit, and I always mistakenly blamed the issues on NM. Most people have the opposite experience from me, however, so take what I say with a lot of salt.

I worry about it.
The fact that it has a built in dns cacher which can be disabled is somewhat troubling.
It's primary target is embedded, so my thinking is that jewtel wants reliable networking so that the proper botnet shit can communicate.

I just hope that's the case.

Sad. Ceni is what I use. It's ncurses, so terminal but I don't have to deal with any weird syntax things.

lmao