On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:39:09AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > "Stock install" in this case means I just let the installer set up the > networking, etc.
How that happens depends on which tasks you selected during the installation. If you go with "Standard" (as one often does when installing for a server), network-manager is not installed. But if you select any of the desktop environment packages, N-M *is* installed, and then networking is configured using that instead of /e/n/i. I'm guessing you installed a desktop environment task during the original installation on this machine.
