Nah I just ask deepseek. It set up a set of dockers for me in 2 minutes and also gave me commands to create my folder structures.
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You probably did this, but for anyone reading, if you copy commands from the internet, look up what all the commands and flags do to be sure you understand it fully, and then type it in yourself in a terminal instead of copy/paste. If you get an instruction to curl | sh, split it into two steps, curl to get the script to a local file you can read, read it, then run if you know what it does. Do these things for anything you don't trust 100%.
I did half of that. I looked at the commands to see what it did, what folders it made. Then I checked that the dockers pulled is the same from the official docker sites. I pasted the codes in rather than manual typing though. Iβve done this from sonarr, radar, audiobookshelf, jellyfin and sabnzbd.
The terminal commands to get dockers working I did copy directly from deepseek after checking itβs the same on dockerβs site. Weird part is I tried to follow dockerβs instructions first but it didnβt work. Then after looking at deepseek, it gave the same instructions from a different page of deepseek. So what I copied into command should have been the same.
Other than that I donβt really install anything as Iβm quite paranoid about these stuff.
Good. To be honest I sometimes copy/paste too, but there is a possible trick to hide characters in the copied text with an automatic return at the end so when you paste you immediately run something you don't intended. If I copy from some random shady blog I'd be more careful than from the official docker documentation I guess.
That makes sense. What about AI answers, it feels unlikely for AI to do that.
If you are the βcomputer personβ in your family, you probably have experience screwing with, breaking, and fixing whatever OSes you have used over the years.
The refreshing difference with Linux is that the software and the people who created it are not trying to prevent you from doing what you want with your computer.
Wow, in that way it's almost like Linux is the same as every other thing.
I'm still gonna have to dual boot for the foreseeable future, but I force myself to usually boot mint unless I want to play any vr/multiplayer/racing games (which is often, unfortunately). But I do really enjoy how much you can do in linux and learning it.
This is why you have to switch to more and more difficult distros over time, to keep yourself on your toes
It's a bell curve. Eventually you switch back to ez mode for your main machine and have alternative or niche distros on spare kit
Ken Thompson, who invented UNIX first in assembly and then rewrote it in C, is now running a Debian derived OS as his main daily driver.
Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand
Me going from Mint to Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Neon to Arch. My experience with the Arch installation process is just the command shutdown
Someday I'll be comfortable enough with this nerd shit to trust myself with unsupervised access to a CLI. Until then I'm happy just knowing what a DE is
next step is nixos! holy fuck transitioning from arch to nixos was hell, i did like 10 years of arch.
Or Gentoo? I haven't used nixos yet so cant speak on it but Gentoo has been awesome to tinker and learn with.
I think nixos is harder than gentoo, plus you can do all the gentoo compile from source stuff on nixos
Same with arson
What's the Venn Diagram of "childhood pyromaniacs" and "Linux users" look like?
Too fuckin real.
It's just 1 circle with both labels in it.
Can confirm, I nearly burnt down my house twice and the car we were driving in down a busy highway once when I was a kid, now I use Linux.
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Over the years of using Windows (2010-2023), I don't remember learning anything at all, only using the command line twice, once to check the hard disk and once to clean the registry... I'm in love with Linux terminal.
Over the years of using Windows (2010-2023)
I switched to Linux full time in 2011 π΄. Was fed up with Windows 7's bullshit.
But I must say, I leaned a tone while I was using Windows XP,. This is during this time I would build my first PCs, setup local network at home and for LAN parties, setup file sharing and damn printers π€¬, start to learn programming.
Did you not learn anything because you simply did not need to, perhaps? Because you can do a lot if you need to.
My gosh if it was easier I would have done so much with Windows before switching to Linux. Instead I was stuck with bad performance and annoying pop ups from my device manufacturer.
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I guess so.
And the less you use Windows, the worse you get at using it. Luckily the bar for Windows competency is pretty low, just basic critical thinking skills and Google get you far.
You can make that point for any operating system, basic critical thinking could mean anything
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I'm sure this will draw some criticism but I've found duck.ai to be extremely helpful in troubleshooting minor issues with my Linux mint installation and recently with accessing and understanding SMART hard drive diagnostic data. It's very helpful in figuring out which commands could be useful in the terminal and in understanding exactly what each terminal command is doing. Of course finding answers in forums and manuals is still relevant and important but as a beginner, this has been a fast and easy way to get advice.
Just be careful to think twice before doing what it says. (That goes for any advice from the internet too!)
Like all the old stories of people's GPS steering them into a lake. Let the GPS help you, but still, like, actually look at the road!
ETA: It's probably quite reliable at explaining what terminal commands do, since it's drawing from many manuals. But sometimes it might completely make up the answer, in a way that's almost right but terribly wrong. You think the command does one thing, so you use it 'appropriately', but really it does something else so your carefully thought out use goes completely wrong.
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Wait, you guys are getting better? /j
im still stuck in vi hell... help... cannot exit program
Have you tried standing up from your computer and going outside? It's the only 100% reliable way I've found to exit vim.
Nuh uh, I gave it access to a 3d printer and it boxed me in while I was sleeping.
I mean it's on you to manage boxing and unboxing in your projects
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it's a good os. on the other hand everytime i learned anything in windows it would get invalidated by new ux and new bugs...
Do you guys also keep a notepad file on your desktop with all the usual commands and shortcuts on it? I can't imagine remembering them all otherwise... and I kind of cringe at the non stop DDG ing I have to do to do some basic liux stuff.
I press up key in terminal to find my commands, as for shortcuts I only use a few so I already remembered all of them
Just go up arrow til you dont need to anymore lol, i sometimes keep a sticky note, wish gnome had a sticky note in the topbar extension
Doesn't gnome have that sticky app?
I've got things that need to run periodically set up in crontab, and create menu launchers for things that I run as needed.
I use the up key for that
I use KDE, and I put a sticky note widget on my top bar, so when you click it, it drops down (and then disappears when you click off of it). Whatever is on it is saved between sessions.
Works great for this kind of thing.
Edit: I also put a webbrowser widget up there that points to this handy site: https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/
Same deal, click the icon and the site drops down.
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