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I've been trying to swap over to Linux and I don't like using the Terminal because I have zero memory retention for literally anything that isn't Weird Al songs
Good thing about nodern terminal is that you don't need to remember much. It's all autocomplete this days, everything has help and there are helpers all over. As a fellow memory challenged, I love it
Terminal commands and Weird Al lyrics might have more in common than you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
for me its basically
1 problem comes up
2a search problem and find one liner terminal paste solution
or
2b search problem for like 17 pages and find a 3 separate menu 47 click and 2 regedit solution
With Windows (pre-10+) at least I can generally avoid the frustration of fruitless internet searches by just mucking around in the control panel for a bit. Or even, yes, Regedit. I like to find a menu that offers me relevant options and then click a button to do a thing. Maybe it takes more time than just typing a command shortcut to do the thing, but clicking menu buttons is something I can just kind of figure out myself by exploring rather than reading the manual or consulting the eldritch lore of the internet every time I want to learn how to do a new thing. .
its pre 8 for me. everything after that is an absolute mess. apple is legitimately more intuitive at that point and I find apple not very intuitive.
People actually installed or used 8? π
Lol agreed though, the entire reason I am attempting to swap to Linux is because 7 was the last good Windows.
I've been on Mint for like 2 years and I haven't opened the terminal yet.
I'm trying Mint too, for the most part it has been a relatively intuitive transition from Windows... up until the moment I try to customize things. Fuck me for trying to pin programs to my panel, make my own shortcuts/launchers, install things to my choice of directories or recategorize my start menu shortcuts. I'm so used to just being able to right click on something and have the thing I wanted to do be an option there, or be able to just click and drag something somewhere and it just does the thing. Looking up the directions for how to do a really basic thing after the third or fourth time gets reeeeal old.
That's one of the things about switching OS. Your habits and ways of doing things need to change. Doesn't matter which OS you come from or which one you go to.
It's one of the more challenging parts, even though it's not the hardest part.
I don't actually use a computer for much anymore. I model in Blender for 3D printing, and have two slicers installed but I think I have just used Prusa mostly. Eventually I'll get around to wanting to play with a DAW again. I have a couple, but I haven't messed with them. Fooled with GIMP a little. I'm the most boring Linux user. Everything online is done on my mobile.
Once you figure those two out Linux becomes ridiculously easy afterwards as those will be your standard shells to use which provide a set list of basic commands like
cd,nano,cat,ls,rmand so on, then you want to figure out which package manager your distro uses likeApt,Dpkg,Yum,Pacmanso you can install software from their respective repositories.Then you figure out which software is Cli (command line) based and which have actual user interfaces, Cli based software will likely introduce new commands to your shells.
Ok but I already have about 700 hobbies and projects I could be working on or learning, I would just like to click the button that does the thing.
Itβs a shame theyβre both terrible.
It would be nice to have a more modern and clean shell script language.
Personally I've gotten myself so deep into Fish that I've basically forgotten Bash. π€·π»ββοΈ
If you're not into using the terminal, I'm going to suggest looking into one of the immutable distros (Bazzite if you're heavily into gaming, Aurora/Bluefin if you're more generic Windows/Mac respectively).
All the important things that make the computer run, you can't (easily) change. All the stuff you care about, you can. As long as you reboot it from time to time, it'll always be up to date. It's meant for people who just want to use their computer and not tinker too much with it.