avatar/pfp: Alixesque
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• high school dropout (proud)
• professional computer toucher (remorseful)
• my organic brain was replaced with a NEC V810 when i was 8
• love and kindness 'til we die, baby
gif: @westfailia
Worked a lot on my "How to Linux" guide for windows users today. I am starting to wonder if this will become a short book by the time I am done
Edit: I don't suggest you open up the command line even once. I am NORMAL and SANE.
(There are many, many asides that I've written as optional detail clickables to read how to do a thing using the command-line if you want to, but they're squarely hidden from sight for the faint of heart.)
Yes, it's taking me a long time because I literally have to learn how to do things using the GUI because I am a horrible command line using freak. In the process, I'm actually learning a lot of pretty helpful things about the OS I claim to be an expert at using.
I'm not allergic to GUI menus or anything, I'm just a little creature of habit and I learned a lot of my 'isms in the early 2000s when Linux GUIs really were completely subpar and changed every two weeks, and the command line methods were the more enduring, reliable way to get things done. As a result I actually don't know how to use the Linux GUI very well, I'm realizing.
i use such a weird blend of the gui and the terminal in linux that i think it probably looks alien to must linux users lol. i navigate around mostly in a terminal, but often would rather look at a folder's contents (when large) with nautilus.
i suppose it also helps that a) i like simple text gui editors and b) the main program i use for work is for looking at shapes, which i need a gui to do...
believe it or not I use the gui tools in linux a lot too, it's also a weird mix and I switch between them based on whatever I know how to use best at a given second. I don't really have a strong ideological preference for one or the other, it's just whatever gives me the best "feedback" for whatever I'm trying to do at a given moment.
I use the gui file browser all the time! I like seeing the pretty little files. Sometimes it's just nice.
I think for me if I don't know how to do something, I like GUIs so I can click around and see the options and stuff. If I know exactly what I want to do, I like the CLI so I can do precisely that thing and nothing else.
so like. today, I researched alternatives to Windows task manager. I've never needed it in Linux, because I use the CLI for that stuff. But gnome has a pretty serviceable one that a windows user might feel pretty comfortable using instead if they don't like the idea of opening two different terminal windows and running "top" in one and typing "kill" in the other.
yeah i like System Monitor lol. i use it a lot to see if my process is gonna consume my machine's memory. i hate doing the kill flow -- i just wanna stab at the process with my mouse STOP HERETIC
