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    I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

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    [–] hamsda@lemm.ee 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

    Saved! Thank you so much.

    I've used Linux full-time since late 2020 and I never knew about ctrl+y and ctrl+u.

    I'd also like to contribute some knowledge.

    aliases

    You can put these into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc or whatever shell you use.

    ###
### ls aliases
###
# ls = colors
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

# ll = ls + human readable file sizes
alias ll='ls -lh --color=auto'

# lla = ll + show hidden files and folders
alias lla='ls -lah --color=auto'

###
### other aliases
###
# set color for different commands
alias diff='diff --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ip='ip --color=auto'

# my favourite way of navigating to a far-off folder
# this scans my home folder and presents me with a list of
#    fuzzy-searchable folders
#    you need fzf and fd installed for this alias to work
alias cdd='cd "$(sudo fd -t d . ${HOME} | fzf)"'

    recommendations

    ncdu - a shell-based tool to analyze disk usage, think GNOME's baobab or KDE's filelight but in the terminal

    zellij - tmux but easy and with nice colors

    atuin - shell history but good, fuzzy-searchable. If you still have the basic shell history (when pressing ctrl+r), I cannot recommend this enough.

    ranger - a terminal file-browser (does everything I need and way more)

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    Also, Terminal User Interfaces are a nice middle ground between learning terminal commands and having a GUI.

    Example:

    btop - process manager TUI

    ncmpcpp - TUI media player, used mpd on the backend

    Here's a big list: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

    [–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    +1 for Atuin. I constantly use it on my machine and SSH-ing on remote machines who don't have it is an absolute pain.

    I'm gonna have to save this thread and check some of those!

    [–] hamsda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

    Yeah, linux-servers without the tools installed in your PC are a hassle. That's why I learned to work with vim, as that's in nearly every distro's repo.

    I recommended atuin as I was using it before, but currently I am using ohmyzsh with the fzf plugin for zsh. This has a very atuin-like interface and handling, but as a plugin for zsh itself.