Fix Linux crasher when NetworkManager is not running. - #11484
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On Linux, NetworkManager is popular but not univerally installed.
On Arch Linux for example, users can build up whatever networking stack they like. The Flatpak build assumes that NetworkManager is running and crashes when it isn't.
This patch prevents the crash, providing a generic error message instead.
Personally, I'd be interested in more extensive change communicates to the user the specific problem that NetworkManager isn't running, but that could be done in a separate scope of there is interest.
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addons/strings.yaml. (Not notable-- rarely triggered)