Also, updates.
"hey computer! Update!"
"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"
"y"
"ok... done!"
👌
Also, updates.
"hey computer! Update!"
"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"
"y"
"ok... done!"
👌
But how do Linux users handle the crippling loneliness of their operating system not pestering them with ads on every update? How else can you know if your computer loves you? Where is the warmth of the corporate embrace?
They discontinued that native app and have a kinda broken pwa. But open-source community delivers.
We shitpost on Lemmy and start flame wars about vi vs. emacs, X11 vs Wayland, sysvinit vs systemd, snaps vs flatpak, etc.
All of those wars have long since ended.
Neovim, Wayland, Systemd and Flatpak have won.
In Emacs I can annotate pdfs.
who the fuck does that in a text editor??
Emacs has a text editor???
Tap for spoiler
Despite my joke, I'm on the Emacs side of this war.
/me eating popcorn as a nano user
Sometimes I run the update command and there hasn't been an update since yesterday. I think that's pretty close.
there is nothing to do ;_;
"Welcome to Costco. I love you."
“Hey computer, I don’t like when you ask for that confirmation, just do it”
“Oh, -y
, I got you”
sudo !!
which foo
tells you where the foo
program is locatedls -la
cd
without any args takes you to your home dircd -
takes you to your previous dirI've been using the commandline for so long but was always too lazy to look up the rest of these commands after ctrl+a/e and ctrl+r THANK YOU!!!
post this commend again and again! There's always lazy idiots like me who will be helped that way!
Makes me realize just how illogical and bad these shortcuts are
I believe, these are Emacs shortcuts. There's also set -o vi
in bash, but I've never used it, so can't vouch for it.
Saved! Thank you so much.
I've used Linux full-time since late 2020 and I never knew about ctrl+y
and ctrl+u
.
I'd also like to contribute some knowledge.
aliases
You can put these into your ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
or whatever shell you use.
###
### ls aliases
###
# ls = colors
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
# ll = ls + human readable file sizes
alias ll='ls -lh --color=auto'
# lla = ll + show hidden files and folders
alias lla='ls -lah --color=auto'
###
### other aliases
###
# set color for different commands
alias diff='diff --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ip='ip --color=auto'
# my favourite way of navigating to a far-off folder
# this scans my home folder and presents me with a list of
# fuzzy-searchable folders
# you need fzf and fd installed for this alias to work
alias cdd='cd "$(sudo fd -t d . ${HOME} | fzf)"'
recommendations
ncdu - a shell-based tool to analyze disk usage, think GNOME's baobab or KDE's filelight but in the terminal
zellij - tmux but easy and with nice colors
atuin - shell history but good, fuzzy-searchable. If you still have the basic shell history (when pressing ctrl+r
), I cannot recommend this enough.
ranger - a terminal file-browser (does everything I need and way more)
The Windows terminal has some very good commands. 'ssh username@server' can log you right into a Linux machine!
I once installed HP shitbox printer drivers from the command line in 30 seconds, and the shitbox printer just...worked.
My heart soared higher than the eagle. I touched the face of the one true FOSS God, and felt that thing when astronauts have epiphanies about the Earth. 10/10, would recommend.
The moment I loved the FOSS community was when I went on an Linux IRC channel, complained about my wifi not working, and some stranger messaged me detailed instructions with a patch in 20 minutes that completely fixed my issue.
I once plugged my linux laptop into the scanner and it just worked
I spent days tinkering with proprietary, outdated (seriously, win XP as target) programs that provide sort-of drivers, and nothing worked, on windows.
I think that is just wildly amazing that printer drivers in Linux so often just work. I plugged in a wireless printer the other day and the hardest part was connecting it to the network. Once that was done BOOM Ubuntu found it and I could print. Those driver maintainers are doing a great job!
Capitalism vs Communism on a small scale
One is "We're not making profit anymore, so not paying anyone to do this. Also not publishing the source because of IP.", the other one is "I have fun doing this, I think I'll adapt the driver to my printer. Open ofc, so others can benefit, while all others, including me, benefit from others achievements."
Mine worked out of the box on mint. Like, it detected the network HP shitbox and I could print, no user intervention. I was floored.
When the GUI fails, Terminal will have your back; can I get an Amen?
Amen. Hallelujah! AMEN! Ooh yeah brothers and sisters, AaaAAaAmen!
PS: this is not a cult BTW
It is, but it’s a very nice cult.
Just wait when you try AUR on arch systems. I was long time ubuntu based user but once I tasted rolling release and AUR I don't want to go back.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Just wait until you find the fun TUI utilities, ill share a few:
If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.
As an administrator, powershell is an essential tool these days. There are tunables that Microsoft simply only exposes via powershell even in their cloud Microsoft 365 environments. Just last month I had to rely on Powershell to trim previous versions on SharePoint, and 2 weeks ago I had to use Powershell to adjust a parameter on Exchange.
But also being able to pop a Powershell session and quickly apply a registry fix or run a diagnostic command or even just install a piece of software without disrupting a user's work is absolutely brilliant (plus saves a call when I can just email back and say "I've pushed it remotely, reboot and it should be sorted now")
I really like having a hotkey bound to the terminal window, so I can pop open a terminal, check something, and return to what I was doing.
FWIW, most Debians (which includes Ubuntu and Mint) have Ctrl+Alt+T set to open the default terminal program without needing to install anything else. This is usually reconfigurable in the system settings too if that's an awkward stretch.
But I get that people like the drop-down terminals too, for which see also Yakuake and Guake.
Yeah. Everyone I know that switched to Linux liked that as well.
It's insane to me that Windows still doesn't have a proper package manager. When you need to upgrade a program you're expected to go to their website and download the latest version, or update it with its own update mechanism.
They do, several third party options and of course the Microsoft store too. It's the users who are stuck in their old ways, which ironically is the harder way. Weird.
Isn't it fun? It's like owning your car and learning what everything actually does, and figuring out how to fix it. And having an amazing community to boot!. I enjoy it.
You've taken your first step into a larger world.
I installed mint yesterday and am having a PAIN installing anything not in the software manager. Currently stuck on teamspeak as my first thing to try. Got a tar.gz and can't find anything well explained online (as of yet, it was already 3 hours just to get mint to dual boot and I was exhausted)
With .tar.gz software usually the steps are:
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
It might ask you to run it as root and quit. In that case put a sudo before the command above and it will ask you for your password
sudo ./install.sh
And tbat's it, installation should begin. Follow the instructions in your terminal.
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
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sudo
in Windows.Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.