Best terminal or command line tool for connecting to wifi?

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Yeah nmcli seems pretty solid. I hear from others on here that networkmanager itself is pretty bloat though. That's why I'm curious about other options and how they compare.
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wifi menu

>command line tool
what is this bloat

just make a .network file in /etc/systemd/network
and start the systemd-networkd unit

any mainstream distro

>systemd

on top of that, Looking at the archwiki page for systemd-networkd, there doesn't seem to be any information on how to connect to a wireless network using options in these .network files, aside from just using wpa_supplicant anyway.
Neither does its manpage.

NetworkManager is like 100 MB, the very definition of bloat

OpenBSD:
doas ifconfig nwid wpakey
dhclient

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aux/wpa [ -dp12 ] [ -s ]

Yeah I heard OpenBSD rolled wireless network connections into their ifconfig. The syntax seems pretty nice. Very similar to nmcli.

wpa_cli does the job just fine without the bloat.
Not to mention that connecting to WPA2/Enterprise networks is much easier.

>what is this bloat
>suggests systemd
Make a wpa_supplicant.conf file instead and start the service. Boom.
Does the same exact thing without a literal million lines of code.

NetworkManager stores passwords in plaintext, just so you know.

nmtui

connman
It just werks

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