Network-manager still sucks !

I have been long complaining about the buggy network-manager included in GNOME. Today, I have (re)discovered I am still unable to use Network-Manager to connect to a WPA secured wirless... Being too lazy to look up why on a clean install of Debian Mint Linux Edition, Network-Manager is still retarded, I opted to the following solution:

apt-get --purge remove network-manager && apt-get install wicd
wicd-gtk

So long, Network-Manager!