The documentation could always be better. However, the cost of better/more complete documentation needs to be balanced against its usefulness. RTFM has been a rallying cry of folks that do technical support (much of my career has been either in or running engineering support teams) and many/most people will not read the fine manual.Possibly though I am not sure it mentions Network Manager is used.Feeding "network manager static ip" into your favourite search engine like would provided enlightenment.
They considered it important enough to have a section for it, but the information given is not complete but is phrased such that it appears it is. Even if it had just said "Alternatively you can configure static IP addresses from the command line using Network Manager's 'nmcli' or 'nmtui' command" I'd have been far happier with the documentation than I am.
Let's be honest; it wouldn't have taken much effort to write that one sentence would it.
One could also use the same argument that much of the documentation which is provided could be found via Google, especially the really technical stuff where one can presume those needing that information were already technical enough to find it or use it.
Also I believe the switch to Network Manager was called out in the introduction of the 5. It certainly was discussed a lot on the forums. It was a total non issue to me since I am a long time user and had switched pervious variants over to Network Manager.
I do agree that more detailed instructions would be fab and would allow folks to continue to point perplexed people to them.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:33 pm