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[innerworlds@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss Distro doesn't really matter

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@itsfoss finding a shell you like is important, just because a distro default is tcsh, bash, sh, ksh, etc, doesn't mean you have to stick with it

[sewingbear@pixelfed.social]

How to use aliases - they help so much and the alias (bash_aliases or sth) file (1) helps to look up my most liked commands (2) and can be copied from one linux system to the next.

[ati1@mastodon.social]

@webhat @joan_am @itsfoss Just like with turtles holding Earth in place, right?

[maitre@mastodon.online]

@itsfoss "This is not, in fact, the Year of the Linux Desktop."

[nop2net@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss set -x in a bash script. Before that, I used a lot of echo statements to debug...

[ati1@mastodon.social]

@mrgrumpymonkey @itsfoss One thing that is not clear to me is how and if desktop environments affects how different apps work / or crash on Linux. Talking Xfce, if i change my Ubuntu Gnome DE to Xfce, should all my apps work the same?

[solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk]

@itsfoss that people who know more about Linux will joke about disastrous commands you can use, but not tell you they are disastrous commands.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@ati1 @itsfoss They should. It's just a different GUI. What's under the hood doesn't change.

[csalem@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss distro-hopping is not a bad thing. It's how you find your one true distro.

[thomasboom@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss That Omarchy existed

[gibbyspooks@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss that the terminal is your friend and window managers are way better than desktop environments.

[_nibbles@mastodon.social]

@mrgrumpymonkey @ati1 @itsfoss There are alot of ** regarding that.
Teeming and certain features may depend on the DE you have installed and some DE don't follow standards as much as others

[gjoel@mstdn.dk]

@itsfoss In Bash: Ctrl+R makes you search through your history, making it MUCH easier to repeat commands.

[ati1@mastodon.social]

@_nibbles @mrgrumpymonkey @itsfoss That was my initial feeling that it is only DE/GUI and so things do not change under the hood, or *they shouldn't *BUT... I gues I just have to test that. Xfce is positively rated for compatibility / following standards right?

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@itsfoss How to use the FreeBSD installer.

[adingbatponder@fosstodon.org]

@itsfoss Read a book on command line, then use any AI tool however dumb to give you ideas and never believe a word... ask it why, why, why.

[tuxta@social.linux.pizza]

@itsfoss CTRL+R

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

@mrgrumpymonkey This would indeed save people a lot of time when they are out looking for distros...

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

@gibbyspooks lovely