I thought it’d be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it
- tab completion works in more places than you might expect
- ctrl-a/ctrl-e for start/end of line
- ctrl-u to clear the command you’ve typed so far but store it into a temporary pastebuffer
- ctrl-y to paste the ctrl-u’d command
- ctrl-w to delete by word (I prefer binding to alt-backspace though)
- ctrl-r to search your command history
- alt-b/alt-f to move cursor back/forwards by word
- !! is shorthand for the previous run command; handy for
sudo !! - !$ is the last argument of the previous command; useful more often than you’d think
which footells you where thefooprogram is locatedls -lacdwithout any args takes you to your home dircd -takes you to your previous dir- ~ is a shorthand for your home dir
- alt-. also pastes the last argument of the previous command (useful if you need to modify it a bit)
- instead of any shortcuts starting with “alt” you can also press “esc” followed by the second key, e.g. pressing “esc”, releasing it and then “a” is the same as pressing “alt-a” (useful if you have only one hand available, or if alt is not availalble)
- if you put a space before a command, it will not be saved in history (useful sometimes, e.g. if you pass a password directly as an argument)
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.
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
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:
- Extract the archive
- Find a file with the .sh extention - that’s the shell script. It will most likely be named something like install.sh
- Make it executable - by right clicking and enabling it in the properties or by opening a terminal in this folder and using a command:
chmod +x install.sh
- Run the installer in the terminal:
./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.
https://flathub.org/ is a great way to manage linux apps/programmes. Very easy and several other benefits
Honestly, it’s a pain in the ass. The shortcuts are different from the browser, so you forget and hit Ctrl+V. Then you remember and hit Ctrl+Shift+V and get some scribbles around what you were typing
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.
I’m thinking of making Linux my daily driver apart for some software I need for work. People are super positive about it on here, but isn’t it still the case that some peripherals won’t work? Or that I’ll spend a ton of time making the system work instead of actually using the system?
It would be for gaming that I’d use the Linux installation mostly.
Speaking from personal experience but pretty universal one at that.
Once terminal kinda “clicks” you will get the urge to tweak stuff. It happens because there is bunch “demo apps” that are just cool to mess around with but simply don’t get known on co-orperate OS. Check this as example.
If games you play or tools you use can be fitted to linux, at some point you will port 80% of your workflow just messing around during the tweaking. Like when you do your first rice.
And after that you can confidently chose if you want to add on to that or continue dualboot.
