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Who would have guessed?! (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you are the “computer person” in your family, you probably have experience screwing with, breaking, and fixing whatever OSes you have used over the years.

The refreshing difference with Linux is that the software and the people who created it are not trying to prevent you from doing what you want with your computer.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Same with arson

[-] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

What's the Venn Diagram of "childhood pyromaniacs" and "Linux users" look like?

[-] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's just 1 circle with both labels in it.

[-] Vopyr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Over the years of using Windows (2010-2023), I don't remember learning anything at all, only using the command line twice, once to check the hard disk and once to clean the registry... I'm in love with Linux terminal.

[-] applemao@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still gonna have to dual boot for the foreseeable future, but I force myself to usually boot mint unless I want to play any vr/multiplayer/racing games (which is often, unfortunately). But I do really enjoy how much you can do in linux and learning it.

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm sure this will draw some criticism but I've found duck.ai to be extremely helpful in troubleshooting minor issues with my Linux mint installation and recently with accessing and understanding SMART hard drive diagnostic data. It's very helpful in figuring out which commands could be useful in the terminal and in understanding exactly what each terminal command is doing. Of course finding answers in forums and manuals is still relevant and important but as a beginner, this has been a fast and easy way to get advice.

[-] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Good point. I don't know why I didn't think about this sooner, i literally use it for other programming stuff.

[-] zakurei@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

That makes sense. It cuts through the RTFM bullshit, and gets you a clear answer without unnecessary ego.

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is why you have to switch to more and more difficult distros over time, to keep yourself on your toes

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Me going from Mint to Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Neon to Arch. My experience with the Arch installation process is just the command shutdown

Someday I'll be comfortable enough with this nerd shit to trust myself with unsupervised access to a CLI. Until then I'm happy just knowing what a DE is

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

next step is nixos! holy fuck transitioning from arch to nixos was hell, i did like 10 years of arch.

[-] itsjess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Or Gentoo? I haven't used nixos yet so cant speak on it but Gentoo has been awesome to tinker and learn with.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think nixos is harder than gentoo, plus you can do all the gentoo compile from source stuff on nixos

[-] itsjess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Genuinely curious cause i don't know much nixos, does it support an equivalent to USE flags or slots?

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't know much about gentoo, but use flags sound a lot like overlays to me, but like I said, i'm not familiar with gentoo.

nixos allows the install of various versions of software by default so slots are definitely a thing. It's one of the main things nix wanted to fix.

[-] itsjess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

I ended up installing the nox package manager on my gentoo machine, and it's been useful so far. Got some packages installed that aren't in the native Gentoo repo

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago

And the less you use Windows, the worse you get at using it. Luckily the bar for Windows competency is pretty low, just basic critical thinking skills and Google get you far.

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

You can make that point for any operating system, basic critical thinking could mean anything

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

You could but you'd be drawing a false equivalency.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I got an equivalency for ya

Pb(s)+2 HCl(aq)→PbCl2(s)+H2(g)

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

Wait, you guys are getting better? /j

[-] stev3yd@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

im still stuck in vi hell... help... cannot exit program

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

All jokes aside, why do people even bother with vi?

[-] davad@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's powerful, lightweight, and ubiquitous. If you do sysadmin work, remote into a random machine, and need to update a config file, it probably has vi installed already. It's also extensible enough to use as a full IDE.

Personally, I like it because of how fast it feels and because I can do everything while keeping my hands on the home row of the keyboard.

[-] zenforyen@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Software developer here.

I only recently switched from vim to VSCode and I refuse to use any editor without vim emulation.

Regular expressions for quick and efficient and precise search and replace, modal editing which allows me to type di" to 'delete inside current double quotes' (needs vim-surround plugin), typing 123gg to go to line 123, press % to switch between any pair of marching braces, brackets or parentheses, and all sorts of such efficient goodies.

It's not only efficient, vi has a whole concept, a philosophy how you can build quick editing commands. It's not like remembering random shortcuts like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V. Once you understand the language, it becomes second nature and you can translate something you want to do into 5 key strokes which would need 100 otherwise or would involve the mouse and clicking and selecting etc.

I'm not even that good at vim, I'm just using the surface features.

It has very good reasons why every notable editor provides some form of vi editing emulation.

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