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  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    1 day ago

    No, what you did is come into a productive post with a fair amount of serious engagement–and no apparent confusion about what I meant from anyone else–with an attitude and a snarky comment. I tried in my response to ignore that and sincerely engage with your question and you decided to double-down. So I’m gonna take that as a solid ‘yes’ re:dead-set on being an ass and go do something more productive with my time. Have a lovely day.


  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    …weird. I don’t understand why drop-down terminals are a thing? I can bring up Konsole with a hotkey too, only it just opens a window instead fo doing a fancy animation. That’s such a tiny part of its functionality that I can’t imagine how ‘drop-down’ became a descriptor for a terminal instead of just a bullet point on a feature list somewhere, much less a whole-ass category of terminals, lol.

    But, fair enough.


  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    1 day ago

    Did you miss the important part of the comment you’re replying to?

    What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post ‘the terminal question’?

    Did you think ‘the terminal’ question meant something else, or are you just ignoring the whole thing because you’re dead-set on being an ass?


  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    2 days ago

    Yeah I’m kinda getting that impression. Most of the responses to this post have generally been ‘use what your DE ships with’ or ‘I use something obscure and tailored to this weird specific use case I have’. I’ve looked at a lot of the suggestions people have given and none of them seem like they would be a noticeable upgrade for me, so I’m content to continue using konsole until I come across a situation that requires me to do something fancy that it can’t do.


  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    2 days ago

    That’s why it was right there in the title? What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post ‘the terminal question’?

    And yes, I genuinely value the opinions of others (because they can explain why they hold them) over the opinions of AI-generated listicles and 10 year old reddit posts that offer no explanation. Is that not why you participate in internet forums like lemmy?



  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    3 days ago

    Fair, although I am reasonably comfortable with the terminal (just don’t know all the commands and such, always having to look that sort of thing up). I used to run linux installs many years ago back when stuff like slackware and redhat were the standard distros and X was iffy at best so I’ve done a lot of that sort of thing, just not in like 20+ years.

    But I’m seeing lots of recommendations for alacritty, I’ll check it out, though most people seem to think konsole is fine unless I have specific needs which I really don’t. Thanks!



  • Libra00@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Terminal Question
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    Fair, I’m definitely not a ‘serious’ terminal user.

    Yeah I was wondering about that, it’d be nice to have an LLM that’s specifically trained on like linux system configs and shit, but that’s well beyond the scope of my capabilities, so if it doesn’t already exist I’m just SOL on that one.


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    Sorry, by ‘general terminal stuff’ and ‘nothing fancy’ I mean I just like edit config files, run system commands, that sort of thing. But yeah I’m not like doing complex data management or programming or whatever.

    I’ll check out Warp/Wave, thanks!







  • The problem is that Microsoft is ending Win10 support so you won’t be able to get updates and such (especially security updates) for the OS anymore which will ultimately lead to things breaking or being vulnerable anyway, plus if that business-critical software ever gets updated to the point where it also doesn’t support win10 anymore (I’ve run into this in the past with XP/Vista) then you’re going to have to change anyway. But you don’t have to change to win11. Companies and governments all over Europe are switching their mission-critical systems to linux and FOSS, yeah it’s a pain, but it’s going to save you pain down the road.


  • I thought so too, largely on the basis of some very bad experiences with ubuntu-based distributions (they seem to hate my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for whatever reason), but in frustration I tried one last time to install a linux distro and went with something based on fedora and it has 95% just worked, it’s been great. I haven’t booted up windows in almost 3 weeks, all my games work (battle.net was a bit of a pain to get working), the proprietary windows software I use for work runs great in wine, etc. I’m at the point now where I’m transferring all my files off of NTFS partitions and reformatting them to btrfs and integrating them into the linux filesystem, cause I’m done with windows forever to the greatest possible extent that I can be.