I don’t get the hate for Ubuntu, it just works. For those who don’t care what setup in their system. Especially those who are coming from Windows or MacOS its a good stepping stone.
Eh, I don’t have anything “complex” to add, other than buying a raspberry pi and using it as a DNS sinkhole/recursive dns under docker/ipvlan network, and then “hiding” it behind a macvlan connection + ufw. Been doing this over several years and never had any problems with it. You can even use it as a music player of sorts by configuring a hotkey to bring up mpv with a playlist, and another one to close it. Oh, and even as a “live stream player 24/7” if you are into it.
I’m using flatpack version which is much more up to date.
I think the big thing is compatibility with current Microsoft office versions.
So there is benefit from being on a newer version unless you’re only using Libre and not sending each other people who are opening it in Microsoft office versions.
Avoid Ubuntu and Manjaro: despite being marketed as “beginner friendly distros”, and despite often running perfectly fine, these two have major issues in management, packaging policies or philosophy that might make your life as a beginner difficult.
That makes no sense. Manjaro is actually one of the few distros where a beginner won’t need to touch the terminal ever. You won’t have to deal with adding PPAs or removing snaps like in several debian/ubuntu based distros.
Some of these tips are dangerous. You generally don’t want cause insensitivity in your shell. Also, ls should never be used as a subshell to find files as a part of commands.
Is there a community for people that actually know and use linux or is this just like 'programmer’humor where morons can’t exit vim, use a debugger, or RTFM?
How would you define “knowing” and “using” linux? Many people here don’t use Linux professionally and only on the desktop, so they probably aren’t too familiar with all the features of different cli programs.
Reading a blog post is more accessible than reading a man page. I didn’t know cd -, so reading the post was worth it I’d say.
manpages aren’t guides though - they don’t help much in learning new tools, especially complicated ones. They’re comprehensive references, some can literally span hundreds of pages. Useful when you know what you’re doing and what you’re looking for, not great for learning new tools.
Any program should have a man page, even if it only lists all options. My point is that a blog post helps some people to learn about a program. For example a post often highlights the most important options of a software.
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