I thought it’d be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
    1141·
    2 months ago

    Also, updates.

    “hey computer! Update!”

    “Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?”

    “y”

    “ok… done!”

    👌

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      87·
      2 months ago

      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?

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 months ago

      “Hey computer, I don’t like when you ask for that confirmation, just do it”

      “Oh, -y, I got you”

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 months ago

      Two clicks with the update thingy on Mint, if I could never have to use the terminal I might be tempted to uninstall Windows completely.

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    73·
    2 months ago

    The Windows terminal has some very good commands. ‘ssh username@server’ can log you right into a Linux machine!

  • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
      23·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        At the same time it encourages people to just trust whatever people are telling them to input in the terminal, which is potentially dangerous.

    • Colloidal@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • amotio@lemmy.world
    203·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • RustyNova@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I was a Nobara user and I’ve gone back. Too many updates that Bork the DE/bootloader (TBF it’s not as maintained as AUR) As for fedora… Random NVidia update borked the system too… But I’m resigned as my GPU being cursed rather than the distro being the isue

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    2 months ago

    Just wait until you find the fun TUI utilities, ill share a few:

    • Shell: Fish (has powerful auto-complete, very fast, written in rust)
    • Montior: Btop (monitors all system resources and processes)
    • Fetch: Fastfetch (perfect for showing off on !unixporn@lemmy.world, for !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone Hyfetch is reccomnded)
    • Brower: BrowSH (its a browser in your terminal)
    • Text Editor: Vim (the best text editor, remeber to use esc + : + q to close or wq to write close vim. However when you open vim you can never quit)
    • File manager: Ranger (if cd + ls is too inconvenient)
    • Games (yes you can even play games in the terminal): 2048, Chess-TUI, NSnake, and Micro Tetris

    More cool TUI tools

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      For a moment I wondered why I never bound a hotkey thusly, but it’s because I simply almost always have at least one terminal open in each workspace.

      • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I don’t really use a mouse or window switcher, so I prefer the dedicated hotkey. It’s nice to have a single keystroke that brings me in or out of the same terminal across every desktop.

  • applemao@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Wait till you try fish or zsh loaded with all the fancy plugins lol

  • vorb0te@lemmynsfw.com
    3·
    2 months ago

    Every now and then I have to analyze some data at work, and gladly I have full access to my work station, so I have WSL2 with Linux, and I wouldn’t know what to do without all that Linux CLI goodness. A mixture of Pipes, xsltproc, jq, Python to get the numbers out of millioons of log lines or xml or json files. If I was stuck on Windows the tasks would be tedious.

  • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Realistically the simplest way to think about it is a text based file manager that can run programs, you could literally ignore it and use it to just install and update, if GUI’s your thing.