I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it
Niw you are doomed and there is no going back. Welcome to the gang;)
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.
You need a purpose. For instance I needed to copy and edit config files for a bunch terminals my company has deployed last week. Instead of manually copying the template directory 80 times and editing the 2 lines that needed to be changed in the parameter file for each one I used powershell to extract the name and id for each terminal from the log files and create copy of the template directory for each one, then replace the terminal name and id in the parameter file of the new directory with the ones extracted from the logs. This would have taken me all day to do manually and it only took about 45 minutes to write up the script and run it. I did have some prior experience with doing this kind of thing but hadn't tied them all together lile that before so i learned some stuff.
Could you 'splain it to me? Cuz I installed Mint 3 months ago, totally happy, and I don't get it.
i like leaving top on all day just to watch it.
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.
FWIW, most Debians (which includes Ubuntu and Mint) have Ctrl+Alt+T set to open the default terminal program without needing to install anything else. This is usually reconfigurable in the system settings too if that's an awkward stretch.
But I get that people like the drop-down terminals too, for which see also Yakuake and Guake.
Why the hell did they misspell (and presumably mispronounce) tilde?
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.
Hint: :q!
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