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I just started using Linux... any great tips? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by Classy@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Cinnamon) on an empty laptop a couple days ago and have been experimenting a lot. I'm coming from being a Windows user since I was just a little kid playing old DOS games on my grandpa's Win-98 PC back in around 2000. My daily driver is currently running Windows 10 but I am pretty adamant on not going with Win-11. I've been wanting to experiment with Linux for a while and Cinnamon so far seems like a lot of fun to navigate. Terminal is amazing. The fact that you can custom-write keyboard commands that can be hand-tailored to individual programs on your computer via the OS... that's powerful.

I have not tried running WINE yet but I plan on doing so soon. I also have not done much of anything, honestly, except for learning how to search for programs with gnome-software --search=. I have also used sudo a couple times to download software here and there, but I know I am not tackling this in as systematic of a way as I ought to be to really figure this machine out.

What are some really important basic commands I can use to start branching out into Terminal command structures and learning more about how I can edit and customize my computer? And if Cinnamon has shortfalls or weaknesses that I may run into eventually, what are some good alternative distros that I could leapfrog to eventually? I do not have any coding experience (currently), but I do consider myself a semi-power-user on Windows, having messed with CMD many times and digging through all the damn menus to access drivers and alter ports.

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[–] Forkk@forkk.me 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ctrl+R to search your bash history. I hate how long I went without knowing this, so I've always got to spread the word about it.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jfc.....I've been using Linux for almost 2 decades.....and TIL

[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you use zsh, typing the first part of the command and then using the up arrow searches through the history for commands with the same starting characters

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This one I knew, but only because I accidentally tapped up instead of right one time

[–] Forkk@forkk.me 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't take me that long, but I had a similar reaction to learning about it haha

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

smfh the more you know, the more there is to learn eh?

[–] Octorine@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think I've learned and forgotten that tidbit a couple of times. It's something that I need to do seldom enough that when I finally do, I don't remember the keybind .

[–] CylonBunny@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Press the up arrow over and over until you find the command. This is they way!

[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

77 times then 78 then 79 for the 3 commands you are looking for you ran consecutively 5 weeks ago

[–] mortrek@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Huh.. Always just piped the history command through grep

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Also press tab to auto complete the current word (works as soon as you've typed enough characters to eliminate ambiguity)

[–] true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow! On Fish, it brings up a whole search bar with a colored grid of results and tab to select and fuzzy finding. This is cool!

[–] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Believe thrt is from fzf so can be enabled on zsh too.

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and Ctrl + L is the same as clear