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I'm a Windows user of all life. But I love Linux. And these last two years after so many time I started learning it in deep . But one thing is bugging me is that I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words... imagine commands... Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I'm struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are ... Different. What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ? My guess is that A LOT of people happens the same. And it's one of the reasons Linux has such a slow adption . Because is excellent and full of capabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Unless you want to increase productivity in specific field (say some kinds of software development) you won't even need to remember anything more than cat, ls etc. In those specific usecases you'll become habituated to the command you use frequently, nobody becomes a grep ninja on day 0.

Whenever I need something mildly complex with ffmpeg or imagemagick, the right command is just a web search away, I rarely remember syntax of these anyway. I find commands less obvious and harder to find for windows shell (technically powershell is cross platform btw), but maybe that's because I'm not much familiar with windows-ism'

Tip: whenever you encounter a useful command syntax/one liner, save it with brief description. I find konsole's built in quick commands quite handy, some other terminals probably have such features too. Otherwise a simple markdown list is enough.