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(DIR) Post #B4sHmeaFZ1ad84V0Oe by itsfoss@mastodon.social
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Comment 🐧#linux
(DIR) Post #B4sHzmXZIB6pZTVMEC by mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss The existence of Desktop Environments. Would have saved me from distro hopping from one flavor to the next. If I would have known better, I'd have stuck with Linux Mint and just installed it with the XFCE Desktop Environment. Oh well. Now I know better and try to inform new users of them before trying other flavors.
(DIR) Post #B4sJ1xNY4ALXieQ2XA by burns@mastodon.berlin
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@itsfoss top -b -n 1 | grep -i <prog name>
(DIR) Post #B4sJnqJzbmd7jOacgy by sen@gnulinux.social
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@itsfoss tab completion in the shell.
(DIR) Post #B4sK7GyiisbVuMu9Ka by innerworlds@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss Distro doesn't really matter
(DIR) Post #B4sKQWBOPwbIZ90cDI by webhat@infosec.exchange
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@itsfoss finding a shell you like is important, just because a distro default is tcsh, bash, sh, ksh, etc, doesn't mean you have to stick with it
(DIR) Post #B4sMhg9umNhgKzd0zY by Maitre@mastodon.online
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@itsfoss "This is not, in fact, the Year of the Linux Desktop."
(DIR) Post #B4sNjmJuwUzByos7JQ by csalem@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss distro-hopping is not a bad thing. It's how you find your one true distro.
(DIR) Post #B4sOTFecj5Y7zNExSi by thomasboom@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss That Omarchy existed
(DIR) Post #B4sSCh7pjfq65CGOdE by Gjoel@mstdn.dk
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@itsfoss In Bash: Ctrl+R makes you search through your history, making it MUCH easier to repeat commands.
(DIR) Post #B4sVdZwAru7zTFJxRI by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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@itsfoss How to use the FreeBSD installer.
(DIR) Post #B4sXAkeU9VFWDDQedE by adingbatponder@fosstodon.org
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@itsfoss Read a book on command line, then use any AI tool however dumb to give you ideas and never believe a word... ask it why, why, why.
(DIR) Post #B4sczSN2Nhae3LGVKy by tuxta@social.linux.pizza
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@itsfoss CTRL+R
(DIR) Post #B4sdAcFA0wSnrItz8K by itsfoss@mastodon.social
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@mrgrumpymonkey This would indeed save people a lot of time when they are out looking for distros...
(DIR) Post #B4sdDaeiNGEZnqGzVg by itsfoss@mastodon.social
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@gibbyspooks lovely 🔥
(DIR) Post #B4sdHA9AsIugkJDwAa by itsfoss@mastodon.social
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@solderandchaos The naughty ones. 😅
(DIR) Post #B4sdkpTeHyzbKLwkts by BoloMKXXVIII@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss Teaching yourself how to install and use Linux in the early 90's was very difficult, and there were few resources available to get answers. Today, many distros are practically a forehead install (smack keyboard with forehead and distro installed).
(DIR) Post #B4skcZ3m8yKzlwqoFs by rd98@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss don't delete home directory 🫠🫠
(DIR) Post #B4snfJTErPpU9clNaa by samueljohnson@mstdn.social
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@itsfoss You can take your SSD or HD put it in another computer and it will just work*. (Windows won't and will likely notify you you're using unlicensed software). *unless radically different eg, different processor type
(DIR) Post #B4sxZhME8Tow2gRe9g by cytro@mastodon.de
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@itsfoss In 2026 ist mit necessary to use the shell as a normal User ♥️.
(DIR) Post #B4t1fRyoccMnu5UbS4 by PorotoCampo@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss you don't need to use the terminal, but it's nice if you now how to
(DIR) Post #B4t2WI3MGAXgSqoUM4 by havehope@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss The Terminal is always a better choice than using a GUI.
(DIR) Post #B4t93YhA0PoHMMg3l2 by RosaLuxemburgo@ursal.zone
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@itsfoss @mrgrumpymonkey For beginners, I understand that the issue of whether it’s possible to install other desktop environments is important, provided it’s made clear that, as a rule, the distro’s default desktop environment is fine-tuned in a way that’s often difficult to achieve with desktop environments installed by the user.
(DIR) Post #B4tMDY2gaQJbdQq6bI by GnosticStreetSweeper@mastodon.zip
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@itsfoss Two things. The man pages are actually good. My experience with GNU/Linux improved tremendously when I learned to integrate man pages into my day to day.Second, related to the first and generally good "tool" advice. Don't fight Linux. GNU/Linux wants you to use the shell and text centric workflows so lean into it.
(DIR) Post #B4tVVZiK0eexcRz8Cm by Earl@mast.john1126.com
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@itsfoss It is easy to record the audio playing on the computer. I used to manually move cables from the speaker jack to the microphone jack to record audio. Now I can do it easily from the command line with arecord, as shown in the video.#Linux #LinuxMint #arecord #music #Jesus
(DIR) Post #B4taLqDsH5CThBvBw0 by phifo@mastodon.social
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@itsfoss Use a distro with BTRFS and snapper making automatic snapshots so you can boot into a snapshot and rollback in case something goes wrong. Saved me so much trouble and time.
(DIR) Post #B4uMJ4xLppBCK0wQcq by kyub@social.tchncs.de
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In a terminal shell, if you want to do a recursive operation on dotfiles only, don't do `.*` -- do `.[^.]*` for example, and test with a non-destructive command like `echo` beforehand. Reason: `.*` includes `..`
(DIR) Post #B50guJKqV83jfCimcC by itsfoss@mastodon.social
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@ottoflux haha
(DIR) Post #B50gvUy2jpmy1uccLY by itsfoss@mastodon.social
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@PorotoCampo indeed 🙌