• @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    As a Linux user of 5 years, I like doing things with the GUI first, and then falling back to terminal if/when shit fucks up. It’s such a great tool.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Which is funny because I’m the other way around. I’ll try doing something with the CLI but if it’s like a calculation or something and I can’t figure it out with awk, etc, I’ll defer to a spreadsheet.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      32 years ago

      As a Linux user of 10 years, sometimes I don’t touch the terminal for months, sometimes I use it every day, depends on what I’m doing. I haven’t done a lot of programming this year so I haven’t used the terminal a lot; but when playing with my microcontrollers and SBCs I use the terminal almost constantly.

      One thing I will note is that I use the keyboard a lot more than I did when I daily drove Windows. I run my computer by muscle memory a lot more than I used to.

  • ME0x01
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    2 years ago

    Super + T == fish terminal;

    Super + Return == zsh terminal

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      i never understood why people use different shells. i’ve tried them all but never have the need to swap back and forth especially not during the same day with the same workflow

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Dang, I haven’t opened my terminal with keyboard shortcuts in years.

      I just click the start menu and have a shortcut there.

  • @[email protected]
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    682 years ago

    Super + T in my case, but still…

    (shhh 🤫, it’s actually the win key, but don’t let the Linux users hear ya 🤫)

      • ayaya
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        162 years ago

        For me it’s the (custom-ordered) Arch logo key ◉⁠‿⁠◉

    • Jamie
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      22 years ago

      Super + S for a terminal, Super + F for Firefox.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      42 years ago

      I have to confess. I had to look up the shortcut for terminal because I haven’t interacted with a Linux desktop in years. I’m a Windows cuck, but not a total imposter bc I’ve kept a debian server running on my network for years. Whenever something breaks or I do an update (the updates are invariably the cause of the breakage) I manage her with ssh.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        It’s Ctrl+Alt+T on most DEs… but, that’s way too many keys for my taste, so I usually just add Super+T as well (don’t remove the default).

    • @[email protected]M
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      For me, it’s:

      • mod + return for terminal
      • mod + e for file manager
      • mod + r for dmenu/bemenu
      • mod + d to switch to the next empty workspace.

      All because I have to work with win10 workstations and using a different, superior shortcut scheme would mess up my muscle memory. Remembering to use shutdown -s -f -t 0 instead of poweroff is difficult enough, and don’t even get me started with the audacity to use curl as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest!

  • @[email protected]
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    312 years ago

    I can’t say I love the terminal, if there’s a GUI for a task I’ll use that but there comes a time in every troubleshooting session where the terminal is just the only way to do something reliably.

    I’m not going to lie though, I forget commands constantly so have to search the most basic shit to type in.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Ash is the only one I’m aware of, but that’s primarily going to be found and used on stuff like routers or other embedded devices. Any modern shell can support history. That said, many users will disable it or wipe it on logout for security reasons.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            It’s not just history support. It will provide autocomplete suggestions based on what you’ve already typed and allow you to browse the history of a specific query.

            Zsh is the only shell I’ve used that supports it, using Manjaro.

            My Ubuntu 22.04 server using Bash does not. It only supports the basic history that I think you are referring to where you can just browse the history of all your commands at once.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      I’m so used to Unix shells that using PowerShell makes me feel like my fingers are broken.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 years ago

        I feel like PowerShell is what happens when you give a business analyst a set of requirements, who then sends it to the dev team to implement, but then the CEO says that the requirements are dumb and it should be something different.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    Tbf quite often there just isn’t a good gui for what I need or for some reason the GUI just doesn’t do what it should