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madthumbs @lemmy.world

3mo ago

CLI being faster can sometimes depend on typing speed and errors

I use CLI in Windows all day long, but I don't expect normies to have to learn it.

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bind 'set completion-ignore-case on'
- bInD 'sEt CoMpLeTiOn-IgNoRe-CaSe On'
- Solutions? No thanks, just a circlejerk here
- Case insensitivity goes brrr
- or just use fish shell

It's Linux. You're supposed to name your user data folders
~/doc
~/dsk
~/dwn
~/mus
~/pic
~/vid
or even better, just use /tmp as your download folder.
- This is the best and funniest comment I’ve read all week.
  
  You can also setup custom dirs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
  All of mine (except Desktop) point to "$HOME/downloads"
  
  You've downloaded half your life from the internet?
- You don't keep stuff in /dev/null?
- dl, sh, src, var, old, pic, app, books
  that's mine. No bin yet - it's a new installation with a home_old.tar.zst file for the old.
  EDIT: Of course I do have a Downloads directory, I've just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.

Create a symlink if that behaviour bothers you

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/downloads
Bonus for solving another common point of confusion with ~/Downloads:

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/Download ln -s ~/Downloads ~/download
- symlinks are sexy
- Won't this be annoying because you'll suddenly have 4 entries for the same thing when you ls?
- It doesn't. I don't use Linux anymore and was far from a 'noob'. I got over the issue after the first time and used a highly personally configured LF, aliases, and ZSH auto-suggest mostly anyway. -Appreciate the tips others might benefit from though. -Thanks!

~/Documents showing up in my tab completion

May I introduce you to zoxide
- I actually have it installed on Windows, but never got around to configuring (outside of Yazi for which I have bookmarks for) or using it. I also hesitated to get into it because I want to know the directory structure well so it's not a handicap. -It is popular AF though. Probably not something for normies though.

OP again with the pro move of posting their Linux issues on linuxsucks to bait Lemmy into suggesting fixes.
- Haven't used Linux in about a year and don't care to go back to it. Never needed personal tech support and ran Arch with highly customized DWM (also dabbled in Fedora and Manjaro). -Far more experienced and adept than the evangelist trolls trying to trash here. -For what its worth. Its not like the topic is a major issue or even one that needs a solution.
  What kept me using desktop Linux for so long? - Lies / misinformation / spare time for it as a hobby (and this is why I do what I do now).
  
  Having been your hope broken by the quality issues, can you suggest effective and appropriate way to advertise Linux?
  Not a gotcha, am genuinely interested what lesson you can give to our at times overly enthusiastic community

Never heard of zsh and oh-my-zsh ? Skill issue.
- https://ohmyz.sh/ This is the way, the fuzzy corrects alone are worth it. Themes, git metadata, plugins and seamless onboarding.

shopt -s cdspell

I veto pull requests that have upper case directory or file names.

- Documents?

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