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I spent 18 years in the Linux console

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Re: I spent 18 years in the Linux console

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Post by doubled112 »

motaforever2019 wrote: post #28
doubled112 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arch is easy to install. I just wrote 200 or so lines of shell scripts to bootstrap it and hand the rest of the setup over to Ansible in a chroot. /s in case

You joke but this is what I have on 3-4 machines that I maintain (a laptop and desktop each for work and personal). And it has saved my butt at least four to five in last 6 years when my drives failed. While 4 to 5 times doesn't seem a lot, I was able to get back to full speed within two hours of my drives failing resulting in almost zero downtime.

I wasn’t knocking the setup, it is how I configure my machines as well.

I treat my machines as if they were disposable. Ready to be wiped and reloaded or forgotten on the bus at any moment.

Just the part where I refer to it as easy was supposed to be sarcastic, I suppose. I don’t expect everybody to want to put that effort out.

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Post by jayd16 »

the-grump wrote: post #18
blueflow wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> History never stops. Things change. Linux changes. To the better, right? Right? The last two years yielded so horrible regressions to me that I'm again considering giving up on Linux.

First, what distro are you on? Second, have you tried windows or macOS recently?

Hey Windows it's pretty nice since they added built in Linux vms.

Re: I spent 18 years in the Linux console

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn »

This was a pleasant little read. I see some echoes to how my own usage of Linux since starting with it back as a teenager in 2009 has evolved. Especially moving to i3wm / Sway after realizing I actually neither need nor particularly like "fancy" WM animations eating up my cycles.

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Post by mitch-crn »

I worked on Tandy Business Systems with Xenix, 8" floppies, oh the power. I have used many flavors over the years. Also played with Mac's and Windows 3.0 to XP. I prefer a Unix/Linux environment any day. It is a toolkit, designed for you to "glue the components you need" to do the job. A different approach.

It (Unix) allows me to do what I want, the way I want it, when I want it. Its free, powerful, not a resource pig, and once you master the shell, you can do just about anything you can think of. It puts the power in the users hands.

An introduction to Unix/Linux: http://crn.hopto.org/intro.html

Re: I spent 18 years in the Linux console

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Post by jayd16 »

homebrewer wrote: post #26
Ologn wrote: post #19

I learned how to do some things in a Unix shell in 1989, like cat, sort, uniq, and piping them together. Now it is 2025, and I am still doing those things, on the Linux box I am typing on now, or some servers I log onto, or in the shell of the MacBook Pro I sometimes use. Whereas I use an IDE to program Android - in 2011 I was using Eclipse with an Android Developer tool plugin. Then in 2014 Android Studio became the…

It's easy to remap keybinds in IDEA, or you can just export and import them wholesale (along with all other settings). The settings can be synchronized through their server or your own git repository so you don't have to do it manually. IDEA is pretty stable overall, I've been using the same dev workflow for maybe 13-14 years now? edit: idea == android studio in this case, there's very little difference between them.

I think it even has Eclipse bindings built in (or used to, anyway).
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