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I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it
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.
middle mouse click is like magic, but CTRL-SHIFT-C/V usually works
I don't want to pasta with middle click. I want to scroll with middle click. I want to pasta with ctrl-v.
I don't want to pasta with middle click. I want to scroll with middle click. I want to pasta with ctrl-v.
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Lol jokes aside, like they said above just add a shift and you're good. Ctrl+shift+c and Ctrl+shift+v a'cut'a a'nna pasta jus'sa fine! Muah!
Has someone not made this a thing for the terminal?
Many terminals let you do that, just change keybinds. The issue is Ctrl+C is used to stop/kill a running command.
What Ctrl+Shift+(do a little spin)+Ins isn't intuitive enough for you??
Jokes aside, that's understandable. I guess I've just become used to it, but there must be some way to override the default binding if you don't like it... Personally I like the kitty terminal's approach which uses mod+c/v for copy and paste in the terminal like you'd expect, while still leaving ctrl+c/v for sigint and verbatim respectively.
i like leaving top on all day just to watch it.
you've seen top, get ready for btop
i'm definitely ready to btop
If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.
i'd also recommend scoop. when i had windows before i switched, i preferred it to winget or chocolately.
As an administrator, powershell is an essential tool these days. There are tunables that Microsoft simply only exposes via powershell even in their cloud Microsoft 365 environments. Just last month I had to rely on Powershell to trim previous versions on SharePoint, and 2 weeks ago I had to use Powershell to adjust a parameter on Exchange.
But also being able to pop a Powershell session and quickly apply a registry fix or run a diagnostic command or even just install a piece of software without disrupting a user's work is absolutely brilliant (plus saves a call when I can just email back and say "I've pushed it remotely, reboot and it should be sorted now")
Every time I use Powershell it makes me love bash even more
Yeah Powershell has way more weird limitations than Bash but it's way better than using cmd.exe
Great news, you can install powershell as your linux shell!
Why though?
I actually had to do that due to something preventing me from upgrading to Powershell 7 on my workstation. Adapted my script for Linux and ran it in Powershell in Linux
Haha this feels like the software version of using like 3 different daisy-chained adaptors. Nice solve!
Oh the best part is it was all to fix a problem on Microsoft SharePoint. Not even on-prem SharePoint!
honestly if they made windows terminal available in linux, i'd use it in a heartbeat.
What's it got that Ptyxis doesn't?
As a sometimes Windows admin, I completely agree. Plus so many things that become simple one-liners instead of taking forever farting around in a GUI tool where a little misclick screws up everything and documentation requires 27 pages of giant screenshots.
sudo !!which foo tells you where the foo program is locatedls -lacd without any args takes you to your home dircd - takes you to your previous dirSaving this! Absolutely gold, thanks for writing it up. You're what makes the Linux community cool. β€οΈ
tab completion works in more places than you might expect
I've found tab to be such a nice "please give me a hint" button.
...That was a terribly convoluted explanation I'm sorry. Just try hitting tab multiple times for fun if you're stuck it's kinda handy. Lol
If youβre looking for a full list of these kind of navigation shortcuts, they all come from readline so read the man page for that. Or just look up the basic navigation of emacs which is what readline is mimicking.
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:
next step to full on conversion is making your own dotfiles repo :)
Then get an old librebooted Thinkpad X230 with Arch GNU/Linux (and remind eveyone it's GNU + Linux) :3
I have to check out some of these!
As for the browser, how does it display sites? Does it display images/video/play audio or is it mostly for just the text based stuff? How about ads/adblockers?
My guess is it works like Lynx.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
You mainly get basic text formatting with some colors. It's kinda neat. I imagine text heavy sites like Wikipedia (or Lemmy instances! Maybe other Fediverse stuff?) would be decent with it.
You can open media with external applications it says though.
Also hey, it's not running all that fancy privacy-killing JavaScript! :D
In some situations I imagine it's fantastic for making your browsing look like you're working on something important, if you have a problem with nosy shoulder-surfers.
Thanks, I'll definitely have to try these, they look neat!
Also, updates.
"hey computer! Update!"
"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"
"y"
"ok... done!"
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But how do Linux users handle the crippling loneliness of their operating system not pestering them with ads on every update? How else can you know if your computer loves you? Where is the warmth of the corporate embrace?