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I still am intimidated by the terminal as I've only had slight experience with CMD

[-] bellsDoSing@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, if all you've ever experienced in regards to terminals is windows CMD, then you really haven't seen much. I mean that possitively. Actually, it will give you a far worse impression on what using a Linux / Unix terminal can be like (speaking as someone who spent what feel's like years in terminals, of which the least amount in windows CMD).

I suggest to simply play around with a Linux terminal (e.g. install VirtualBox,.then use it to install e.g. Ubuntu, then follow some simple random "Linux terminal beginner tutorial" you can find online).

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

The Windows Terminal is absolute Garbage. I tried to use it for some very simple stuff and it was such a trash experience. It just feels wrong.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don't worry about the terminal until or unless you have something to do that needs it, then follow a guide

Incidentally if a guide tells you to run a program in terminal, you can check what that program is supposed to do

  • man command (eg. man mount) gives you the manual, if it has a manual
  • command -h or --help gives you the command's help page - pipe it through "less" if it's more than a single screen eg: ls -h | less
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