I was using Ubuntu and Linux Mint more than a decade ago, then I switched to Debian, so I guess I skipped most of this curve, lol.

For me it’s like:

• PulseAudio - Bluetooth Audio doesn’t work
• PipeWire - Audio sometimes work, sometimes not. Reboot and figure it out.

Literally me. One time I was asked “What is happiness” or some other similar shit. It’s not like I think about stuff like that at regular basis, lol.

Kolorpaint is decent if you don’t care about layers.

How do you do any kind of work without having layers?

It is, but most modern software doesn’t work at all in Wine. I have 2 apps (Paint.net, and SketchUp Make 2017) which don’t have any real alternatives (or they suck) for Linux and they don’t work in Wine.

It’s Windows. You don’t need a license to run it. I mean you should have it, but it won’t suddenly stop working like in old days.

The command after && runs only if the previous command returns non-error exit status (0), if pacman returns error the latter command won’t be executed.

Additionally there’s probably a configuration option for sudo for it to not time out, but it doesn’t matter since you can just use systemctl reboot as a normal user to reboot your system (at least on Debian). If that’s too long I recommend to add this to your .bashrc (if you use Bash): alias reb='systemctl reboot' or something similar.

I am not sure how Windows handles processes, but on Linux you have different signals. SIGKILL (9) generally kills the process immediately, but there are other signals like SIGTERM (the default signal, 1) which asks process to gracefully quit, and many others.

If you want to know more, check the signal(7) man page or the Wikipedia page.

Ah, the zoomer distributions /s

Whatever works for other people I guess. A good Linux administrator is a person who can work with the default configuration on their OS, and I am trying to be that person and eventually learning inside-outs of systemd.

Debian users:

What do you mean by PPA?

Also: apt-get is intended as low-level APT interface for scripts, just use apt instead. I get why people are confused nowadays, because APT documentation is terrible.

Me: kill -9 $$

It’s only a joke btw.

Have you seen their bug tracker? It takes about 3.2 years to get comfortable using the command-line tool, they want you to use. Or you know, you can be a bit more fancy and report bugs using… your favourite e-mail client.

I don’t think they do anymore with trixie, which is a bit surprising.

Although to be honest it makes sense, given how cheap you can buy relatively new computer nowadays.

I don’t think there’s any reason to use rmdir unless you write (Ba)sh scripts, and you want to make sure that the directory is indeed empty. Just use rm -r.

Also note that you can use rmdir -p this/is/some/path to remove all nested directories including the parent (this here). But this will only work if there’s exactly one directory per parent directory, and the last directory doesn’t have any files (including directories). This might be helpful for some scripts.

rmdir -r isn’t a thing, because that would invalidate the reason this command exists.

That works, unless you mistype the file name, and delete some unrelated directory by mistake.

CTRL+L and clear command do two different things (at least when using Bash on Debian):

• CTRL+L scrolls the terminal output one screen so you don’t see your previous output, unless you scroll up;
• clear does indeed clear terminal output completely, and your previous command history is available only through the history command.

If you want CTRL+L to clear your screen completely you can add following to the .bashrc (or other file that is sourced when starting Bash, e.g. .bash_bindings):

bind -x '"\C-l":clear'

Note that it might not work if you use Vi mode inside Bash, but who does that.

alias emacs='fail; vim'

Linux is great for two kinds of people:

• Ones who only use web browser, and maybe listen to music/watch movies on their computer (so probably majority of people);

• Ones who have time and energy to tinker with their computer, because doing anything that’s beyond the before-mentioned tasks will eventually make user do CLI stuff, to fix shit.

I mean, there are only two three realistic options (four if you are that one BSD user):

• Either you use Windows and let Microsoft spy on you (or rely on unbloating scripts which might eventually break your OS and not even block all Microsoft spyware in the first place);

• You buy overpriced Mac computer, that might also spy on you, who knows;

• You use Linux.