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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.
Niw you are doomed and there is no going back. Welcome to the gang;)
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!
honestly if they made windows terminal available in linux, i'd use it in a heartbeat.
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
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.
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.
Honestly, it's a pain in the ass. The shortcuts are different from the browser, so you forget and hit Ctrl+V. Then you remember and hit Ctrl+Shift+V and get some scribbles around what you were typing
They were there long before the browser. The problem is that they should work in the browser but they don't.
I installed mint yesterday and am having a PAIN installing anything not in the software manager. Currently stuck on teamspeak as my first thing to try. Got a tar.gz and can't find anything well explained online (as of yet, it was already 3 hours just to get mint to dual boot and I was exhausted)
Imma just update: I have given up and wiped the drive to use it as a game drive for windows again. Each turn just gave hours of headache and I'm just done trying.
Installing Mint took over 3 hours of searching obscure errors with solutions that were way too technical. In the end having gone from 5pm to 11pm just to get Mint dual booting. Got it installed and got teamspeak and stuff installed, after a bit too long having to find out but that's fine. Spent 4 hours trying to get steam games to run, not a single working boot and couldn't find anything online.
I might try again once I get my new AMD based game pc whenever I have budget for it. But for now, nah this took too long and took way too much effort. I just started a new work project which has already been exhausting and I just plain don't have the energy to bother with this. Its not plug and play like people like to say online.
https://flathub.org/ is a great way to manage linux apps/programmes. Very easy and several other benefits
With .tar.gz software usually the steps are:
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
It might ask you to run it as root and quit. In that case put a sudo before the command above and it will ask you for your password
sudo ./install.sh
And tbat's it, installation should begin. Follow the instructions in your terminal.
Can't say for TeamSpeak, but will say for Linux: setting everything up and figuring out your steps in edge cases is the hardest part. Once you figure it out, it gets so much easier.
Just wait until you find the fun TUI utilities, ill share a few:
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?
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 dirIf 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.
Nice list, TIL about Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Y.
If I may add, Ctrl+X into Ctrl+E opens $EDITOR to edit the current line.
I've been using the commandline for so long but was always too lazy to look up the rest of these commands after ctrl+a/e and ctrl+r THANK YOU!!!
post this commend again and again! There's always lazy idiots like me who will be helped that way!
Makes me realize just how illogical and bad these shortcuts are
I believe, these are Emacs shortcuts. There's also set -o vi in bash, but I've never used it, so can't vouch for it.
Thatβs good to know. Itβs interesting that the other commenter thinks emacs shortcuts are illogical. Iβll make my best guesses at the logic
- ctrl-a/ctrl-e for start/end of line
a is the beginning of the alphabet; e for end (of line)
- ctrl-u to clear the command youβve typed so far but store it into a temporary pastebuffer
- ctrl-y to paste the ctrl-uβd command
No idea here. Seems similar to nano with k-βcutβ and u-βuncutβ.
- ctrl-w to delete by word
w for word obviously.
- ctrl-r to search your command history
- alt-b/alt-f to move cursor back/forwards by word
r reverse, b back, f forward. Not sure why alt vs control though; presumably ctrl+b and ctrl+f do different things although I know emacs likes to use Alt (βMetaβ) a lot.
In the 1980s, Digital Equipment Corporation had a word processor, WPS. Ctrl-u cleared the line you were typing and put it into the paste buffer. Maybe legacy usage?
Explains why they are so illogical! Unfortunately i think its better to just learn the defaults since i remote into lots of servers where i dont carry my config