I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it
I'm getting ready to change one of my Ubuntu machines over to Mint, as the next iteration of Ubuntu requires more RAM. While I've done these changes many times, I've never quite understood the deal with setting up the partitions.
Also, updates.
"hey computer! Update!"
"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"
"y"
"ok... done!"
👌
Guess what I did last night? I spent 4 hours working on getting PSD, XCF and KRA thumbnailers working in Mint. It took custom scripts to be written and each one required different commands because KRA files are just a zip file so you have to extract that and grab one of 3 possible preview files that might exist inside that zip and make that the thumbnail, while in gimp files you cant just use convert command, even convert[0] will only turn the first layer into a thumbnail and thats completely useless. And to top off all that, I finally got thumbnails working in gnome/nautilus but Only the XCF thumbs will generate in cinnamon/nemo (I still have no clue why that is) but I cannot just switch to gnome because there is technically no gnome variant of Mint so gnome doesnt work 100%... etc etc etc
Linux is still not there, this stuff should be simple and automatic. If a 20 year professional took 4 hours to get this far, the average user will give up immediately. Yes Mint is still my daily driver, but seriously thumbnails should not be this much work.
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.
Nano/Micro/Pico gang will never back down!
In Emacs I can annotate pdfs.
who the fuck does that in a text editor??
Emacs has a text editor???
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Despite my joke, I'm on the Emacs side of this war.
Sometimes I run the update command and there hasn't been an update since yesterday. I think that's pretty close.
“Hey computer, I don’t like when you ask for that confirmation, just do it”
“Oh, -y, I got you”
The Windows terminal has some very good commands. 'ssh username@server' can log you right into a Linux machine!
sudo !!which foo tells you where the foo program is locatedls -lacd without any args takes you to your home dircd - takes you to your previous dirWhat's the shortcut for scrolling the terminal?
I'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!
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
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:
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.
Why the hell did they misspell (and presumably mispronounce) tilde?
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.
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.
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.
Hint: :q!
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