No, no! Listen to the shamers! Change your distro eight times over the first month as you listen to them whine, and eventually return to the first one you chose, full of wisdom of why those other distros suck so you can tell the noobs who choose one of them first instead of your glorious choice!

Thanks! I plan to experiment with others, but I wanted a nice smooth transition for my wife and I both, so Mint seemed like a great starting point.

Just as long as it’s not Red Star, that’s even worse than windows.

I agree that’s why I don’t listen to all the hater’s who say my distro Choice of Android Tv is bad.

Your distro of choice is a good distro unless you chose anything other than TempleOS

Mint’s a pretty nice distro, all things considered. The only one I’d turn my nose up against is Manjaro, mostly because of their leadership’s reputation as clowns.

If you don’t know how to use man, just type in man man.

oh wow, thank you for

sudo !! 

this is amazing :D

tldr or teeldeer is the short manual. fwiw

I keep forgetting that one! Thanks! I always use up arrow and then waste time getting the cursor back with maybe the home key or ctrl+ left-arrow LOL

Also, don’t forget manuals have pages lol. I forget how many there are. 99% of the time you just need page 1.

sudo right now -rf /

Worth reading

That’s pretty awesome, thanks!

Nice!

Tangentially related: So is Automate The Boring Stuff With Python!

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc

Hey thanks

The newest version there is 6th edition and has 90 more pages that he latest print copy of 2nd edition. Anyone know if there’s a plan to start printing a copy that’s less than 10 years old?

sed -i -e ‘s/coco/brew/g’ $some_guy_post

Whoah… wish I knew about this when I was setting up my raspberry pi. Got a brand new computer on the way (well half of it is here already) so this might come in handy… thanks!

Or switch to NixOS 😉

Schotts actually provides TLCL for free, and last updated it a month ago:

https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

Those books were published in 2019 and 2021. They’ll still be mostly accurate a decade from now. Open-source developers usually try not to introduce breaking changes to mature software unless absolutely necessary.

Books will teach the essentials: my core UNIX knowledge comes from an SVR4 book I read in the late 2000s (a decade or more after it was relevant) and it’s still applicable today

Documentation is not the proper place for an absolute beginner to learn (unless it explicitly has tutorials, and even then they’re not always great).

I added a line to my /etc/bash.bashrc:

alias shutup="sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm && poweroff"

So when I tell my command line to shut up, it auto updates and shuts down

you most certainly are that savvy of a person

There are millions of us.

Glad to hear OP has the spare time to make it “it just works”

😂

That’s very kind of you to say, thanks :)

I screwed up my dual boot a year ago and it was happiest mistake of my life. Forced me to learn linux, and now I feel like I live in the matrix with all my bright green terminals on i3.

You don’t need to reinstall. You could keep the old partition and format it and add it as a new volume while keeping the current installation.

If the windows volume is to the right of the Linux volume, you could also boot a live-usb and drop the windows partition and then extend the Linux partition then extend the Linux filesystem to cover all disk space. If it is to the left, you can do the same but you’d need to move the partition and reinstall the bootloader as well.

A backup would be mandatory If you don’t really know what you would be doing with the above, however. But if you do, it’s a lot easier and faster than to rebuild everything from scratch.

Does anyone distro shame Mint? The only distro-shaming I’ve seen is against Ubuntu, and that’s because of Canonical’s repeated attempts to turn Linux into Windows and push their own proprietary bullshit.