Comment by formerly_proven
4 years ago
Cue nmcli (CLI for Gnome's NetworkManager) which uses UUIDs for everything and (at least a while ago) did not accept partial-but-unique UUIDs. Basically goes "nmcli connection up 5095665a-d82c-4ae6-8964-283623387941".
By this point, I'm pretty sure there are people at gnome who compete to see who will make the stupidest suggestion that gets put in production.
It's a Gnomespiracy to determine whether worse is actually better.
Fits right in with COP26. (Could Of Punted?)
Weird, I haven't had to do this. Most(/all?) connections have nice names you can see with `nmcli c`... and so I can do `nmcli c up id DroidNet` and that's pretty dang nice. Pretty sure this worked with Ubuntu 14.04 (though, nmcli has gotten much more featureful since then)
(The ability to shorthand connection->c and similar is great, too; obviously not unique to nmcli)
apt-get install nmtui # it's better
nmtui is a life saver tbh