Just installed mint yesterday, I get it now

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 like leaving top on all day just to watch it.

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

• 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

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

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

Also, updates.

"hey computer! Update!"

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

"y"

"ok... done!"

👌

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)

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.

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.

Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.

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

You've taken your first step into a larger world.

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.

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 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

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.

Yeah. Everyone I know that switched to Linux liked that as well.

Madthumbs in shambles