I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

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    There isn’t a hardware panel nor a proper task manager nor a GUI registery editor.

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      1 year ago

      I vaguely remember pressing Alt+F4 while trying to close vim in a terminal once. It did switch to me login prompt so I thought it worked.

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      For people who actually don’t know this, yet: Type :x.
      This means “eXit, save any changes”

      If you want to leave and discard your changes, type :q!
      The :q means “Quit”, without any other instructions. This will warn you if you changed anything, adding ! means “force this command”.

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        Try micro.

        It’s much better and quite easy if not easier to use than nano. It should really be the default simple editor.

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    I learned to never settle. If you don’t like the default workflow of Gnome, try some extensions, or even a different DE. Same with Package Managers. If you don’t like the syntax, make an alias. Don’t just “deal with it”. Windows has brainwashed people into thinking that there is only one way to do a thing.

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      This is kinda funny to me because I hadn’t realized how terrible the Windows workflow was for me until Gnome 3 came out.

      Ever since, while I’ll use extensions for stuff like alphabetical app grid and Caffeine, I never do anything that changes the Gnome workflow. It’s not for everyone, but it absolutely is for me.

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      Its why I always find it funny when people complain about changes to the start bar, because surely there isnt a bunch of 3rd party options in existance that change it, and can mimic 7’s start bar.

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        I have heard that shell replacements are often very buggy on Windows.

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    The 1:1 windows:Linux replacement is just a means to keep you on Windows. Once you learn Linux, you’ll come to understand how much of a farce it is and how it’s designed to keep you away

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    That I could put /home on a different drive
    That I would never boot into Windows again so having partitions for it was a waste of time
    That mounting drives with their uuid as the mount location is insane

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      That mounting drives with their uuid as the mount location is insane

      Why tho? Kernel sometimes can index drives in different order (if you have multiple drives), screwing your mount locations. But UUID is always the same