Raspberry PI OS Bookworm. Does it support multiple desktops/workspaces?

I click on 'edit' and nothing happens. I am not sure that it thinks there is even an interface to configure.

Presumably doesn't work in NetworkManager is not running. What does nmcli say?

Indeed - I was going to boast about my home linux servers having racked up large uptimes, in one case with uptime wrapping round (a good few years ago - an old linux kernel) - I was a bit nervous. I think the max was 2 and half years - we do have a decent mains power supply, and yes, I know that at some point I prob. should have done some security upgrades that might have needed a reboot.

Since I stopped using the EPIA motherboards with VIA chips (20+ years ago?) I've never had a crash. The boards have either been powered down for hardware changes, kernel upgrades, and once because of finger trouble - I typed shutdown in the wrong ssh session!!!

The server runs DNS, DHCP, Syslog, SMTP, IMAP, NFS, SMB, NTP, HTTP servers as well as doing various LAN monitoring - currently on a PI3B, with an upgrade to 4B being planned. Needless to say the NFS, SMB, HTTP traffic is light, except when backups running!

Just as well. There are too damned many of us as it is, and the politicians are pushing population growth as hard as they can. It's all gonna crash, sooner or later (probably sooner).

No chance! There hasn't been enough farmland in the USA to feed all the horses needed to replace all diesel and petrol-powered road transport since the late 1960s. Cities have expanded a lot since then as well, which has in turn reduced available farmland still further during the last 70 years.

Global population has grown by over 300% in my lifetime.

If NetworkManager doesn't manage the interfaces then nmtui can't do anything and that is what I wrote about several posts back.

nmcli will show the interfaces and whether NM is managing them. If it isn't you need to edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf so they are managed by NM then you can use nmtui. nmtui was so very simple to use having used the NM applet on various Linux desktops, just a text mode version of what I've used for some time.

Depends on the LOAD. If not much is going on it can be fairly conservative, maybe 70 watts.

I did have a simple Raspbian (very early) running on a Pi-1 for about six+ years without interruption. It only does ONE thing though. I'd forgotten it existed. Same SD card for all those years too.

Upgraded it to Bullseye and a new card a couple of years ago. It'll likely run for a decade.

Now a very BUSY/DIVERSE system ... hard to say how long Linux would run without a reboot. Actually Win-Server is pretty good in that respect. Thing is, if "busy", you generally do some kind of updates LONG before the system becomes unstable. With Linux, updated kernels come out rather frequently and I always reboot so everything will 'take'.

I have a 300+ page - small type - VMS manual. Did use it and DID like it. It was well ahead of its time in many respects. I'd be happy if some guru would kind of revive it, adding a few more modern features, esp internet stuff. You USED to be able to get VMS that'd run on X86, maybe ARM, emulators but the owners decided to end that. There ARE articles on running Unix s-V on a Pi however. VMS was much better. Maybe after I'm fully retired ...

In any case the BSDs *are* solid. They don't try to keep up with the latest fads. Perfect long-term function seems to be the goal. Linux is far easier to work with, but that may come with a price sometimes.

The systems that intrigue me are those they put on NASA deep space probes and such. The redundancy, the ability to work around serious hardware problems, amazing. That is *art* ......

I'm gonna suggest an ASUS "Tuf"/"ROG" board instead. Much faster, very very reliable, all the BIOS tweaks fully exposed. More expensive than a Pi4 of course ... but you get what you pay for.

And should STILL be rebooted daily :-)

Actually, I've learned to set auto-reboot on Pi's that are running 'messy' - graphics/com-intensive - apps. Crontab it at 6am or whatever ... gets rid of all those little memory leaks and unclosed subprocesses.

Winders is a MESS. Nobody at M$ really understands how it all works, so it's blind patches and tweaks and damn the side-effects. Tell the stupid consumers it's all THEIR fault. Bet there's STILL some original Gates code from the Ancient Times in there. But - Granny KEEPS buying it ... hey, it comes "free" with yer new laptop !

Hmmm ... all that M$ cloud stuff, does anyone think it runs on Winders Server ??? :-)

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'nmcli' does exist and DOES work ... theoretically anyhow. However it's a CRAPPY/COMPLEX/INFLEXIBLE utility. I'm about to start writing something better "for the rest of us". I'll post it when it's good.

'nmcli' .... but I'm not a nit-picker, typos happen, often.

Alas nmcli is quite user-unfriendly IMHO. There are days I change network stuff several TIMES a day and nmcli is NOT my buddy. Ergo the 'templates' I posted the other day for /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

I'm beginning to work on a Python script that'll be much easier to use than nmcli. Still text/terminal, but aimed at "the rest of us", the ability to do usual tweaks very easily.

Laziness is the mother of all invention :-)

No nmtui is the graphical style textual command and nmcli is the pure CLI command.

However, in your case the command is *plonk*!

No idea and don't have time to play.

Maybe later :-)

The problem I heard about horses was waste disposal.

I'm just a young'un - when I was born in 1950 the population was

Please do.

SO many snobs in the LiniVerse ... SO sad.

Yep, as noted elsewhere, that WAS the cause.

Though, with Wayland+LXDE, /home/pi/.config/autostart FOLDER is the right place ... but you have to drag/modify .desktop files into it. Not quite as flexible unless you point 'em at bash or python scripts.

I'm totally off Wayland at this point. Not, probably NEVER, Ready For Prime Time. It has a *niche* with "gamers" ... which is ok so far as it goes ... but for max compatibility stick with X11. 'Gamers' are a rather small segment of the LiniVerse - "infrastructure/devices" is where it's really at.

Which brings us to BookWorm/NetworkManager, esp for non-GUI headless applications ... but I've provided some cheap/EZ work-arounds.