Just installed mint yesterday, I get it now

Also, updates.

"hey computer! Update!"

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

"y"

"ok... done!"

👌

• 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 foo tells you where the foo program is located
• ls -la
• cd without any args takes you to your home dir
• cd - takes you to your previous dir
• ~ is a shorthand for your home dir

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.

When the GUI fails, Terminal will have your back; can I get an Amen?

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:

• 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

If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.

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.

https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/tilda

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.

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)

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

Niw you are doomed and there is no going back. Welcome to the gang;)

i like leaving top on all day just to watch it.

if I could copy pasta with ctrl-c and ctrl-v in terminal, then 90% of my hatred of the command line would evaporate instantly.

I'm on the other side of the coin, I really don't know how I'm supposed to learn to use the terminal. I can do sudo apt get to get some programs and updates, as well as mv and cp, but that's where it stops for me.

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.

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

I had the exact same experience when I first tried Linux. But now when I am evily forced into using Windows and HATE it any other way. Also I despise the windows terminal now (PowerShell & CMD).

I'd use the terminal more if it had better auto suggestions, and allowed me to treat the text like any normal text editor, instead of having to learn keyboard shortcuts just to basic text manipulation. So far Warp terminal is the best option I've found

Madthumbs in shambles

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.