On: A BSD person tries Alpine Linux

[hedora]

Same here. However, from what I've seen, touching any systemd component causes cascading issues.

I usually settle on networkmanager, since there's not a great alternative for dealing with wifi. However, it often delegates to a giant broken pile of fail.

Things can be much simpler on machines that connect via ethernet (including VMs).

[lnxg33k1 → hedora]

You might want to have a look at IWD, but read the docs to see how to configure it to work nicely with networkmanager or systemd-networkd