I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it
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Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
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?
They discontinued that native app and have a kinda broken pwa. But open-source community delivers.
I have been harmed by this web page in a way that is too sacred to recover from. Dying now.
We shitpost on Lemmy and start flame wars about vi vs. emacs, X11 vs Wayland, sysvinit vs systemd, snaps vs flatpak, etc.
All of those wars have long since ended.
Neovim, Wayland, Systemd and Flatpak have won.
In Emacs I can annotate pdfs.
who the fuck does that in a text editor??
KurtVonnegut does that
Emacs has a text editor???
Tap for spoiler
Despite my joke, I'm on the Emacs side of this war.
/me eating popcorn as a nano user
The war is over but battles still rage on. Some people really hate the concept of standardization.
"Welcome to Costco. I love you."
Sometimes I run the update command and there hasn't been an update since yesterday. I think that's pretty close.
there is nothing to do ;_;I really wanted mr. Satya to watch my screen with Recall π₯
βHey computer, I donβt like when you ask for that confirmation, just do itβ
βOh, -y, I got youβ
Two clicks with the update thingy on Mint, if I could never have to use the terminal I might be tempted to uninstall Windows completely.
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The Windows terminal has some very good commands. 'ssh username@server' can log you right into a Linux machine!
I setup open SSH on windows so you can swing it both ways!
My main gripe is it runs cmd.exe and I gotta powershell to jump into that. If you auto powershell it doesn't work right.
Times like this make me miss reddit gold
Just make a $2 donation to their host. Much better than reddit gold.
Lemmy Lemon π?
Nope.
Madthumbs in shambles
I once installed HP shitbox printer drivers from the command line in 30 seconds, and the shitbox printer just...worked.
My heart soared higher than the eagle. I touched the face of the one true FOSS God, and felt that thing when astronauts have epiphanies about the Earth. 10/10, would recommend.
Mine worked out of the box on mint. Like, it detected the network HP shitbox and I could print, no user intervention. I was floored.
Same on most distros I've tried recently. Fedora, OpenSUSE, CachyOS, Bazzite. Not vanilla Arch obviously
The moment I loved the FOSS community was when I went on an Linux IRC channel, complained about my wifi not working, and some stranger messaged me detailed instructions with a patch in 20 minutes that completely fixed my issue.
At the same time it encourages people to just trust whatever people are telling them to input in the terminal, which is potentially dangerous.
Piping curl into sh is sadly a very common install method these days
But you are right
I once plugged my linux laptop into the scanner and it just worked
I spent days tinkering with proprietary, outdated (seriously, win XP as target) programs that provide sort-of drivers, and nothing worked, on windows.
I think that is just wildly amazing that printer drivers in Linux so often just work. I plugged in a wireless printer the other day and the hardest part was connecting it to the network. Once that was done BOOM Ubuntu found it and I could print. Those driver maintainers are doing a great job!
Capitalism vs Communism on a small scale
One is "We're not making profit anymore, so not paying anyone to do this. Also not publishing the source because of IP.", the other one is "I have fun doing this, I think I'll adapt the driver to my printer. Open ofc, so others can benefit, while all others, including me, benefit from others achievements."
When the GUI fails, Terminal will have your back; can I get an Amen?
When my computer starts to run out of ram and I immediately try and switch into the CLI so I can launch htop and kill the offender
find the traitor and kill him!
It's usually Minecraft or Firefox
amen
Amen. Hallelujah! AMEN! Ooh yeah brothers and sisters, AaaAAaAmen!
PS: this is not a cult BTW
It is, but itβs a very nice cult.
Just wait when you try AUR on arch systems. I was long time ubuntu based user but once I tasted rolling release and AUR I don't want to go back.
It is going to make to want to go back
Someday
When you least expect it, and have a deadline
For me that day was yesterday. Ran an update. Next bootup got a black screen.
Saw it as a sign that it's time to distro hop again lol
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