I’ve been setting up a new Proxmox server and messing around with VMs, and wanted to know what kind of useful commands I’m missing out on. Bonus points for a little explainer.
Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot. It pipes Journalctl (boot logs) into grep to find ‘foo’, and prints 10 lines before and after each instance of ‘foo’.
It isn’t a command but an application. I cannot do my work without it.
I prefer tmux, but yes. Both do a great job in helping me manage my terminal sessions.
tmux is based
Tmux is good because I can have a little window with a bonsai in it and another little window for the matrix. Sometimes I even leave a window for typing in commands.
Based is fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen
What can I say. I’m old.
Scrolling in screen is superior to tmux imo
Scrolling is tmux is what I hate about it. I would prefer to use tmux since I’m use to it. But if someone can explain to me why I can’t just use my scroll wheel on my mouse.
As I understand it, the issue is that tmux invents its own terminal emulator functionality that conflicts with the existing terminal it runs within, while screen simply defers scroll functionality to the terminal emulator.
are you using a maintained alternative? Distros started to remove it from their repos years ago because it was not maintained anymore afaik
I have no idea where you got that from. 5.0.1 is from August 2025.
maybe they resumed development then, it was removed from Ubuntu and RHEL repos about 5 years ago when I had to look for an alternative