I just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Cinnamon) on an empty laptop a couple days ago and have been experimenting a lot. I’m coming from being a Windows user since I was just a little kid playing old DOS games on my grandpa’s Win-98 PC back in around 2000. My daily driver is currently running Windows 10 but I am pretty adamant on not going with Win-11. I’ve been wanting to experiment with Linux for a while and Cinnamon so far seems like a lot of fun to navigate. Terminal is amazing. The fact that you can custom-write keyboard commands that can be hand-tailored to individual programs on your computer via the OS… that’s powerful.

I have not tried running WINE yet but I plan on doing so soon. I also have not done much of anything, honestly, except for learning how to search for programs with gnome-software --search=. I have also used sudo a couple times to download software here and there, but I know I am not tackling this in as systematic of a way as I ought to be to really figure this machine out.

What are some really important basic commands I can use to start branching out into Terminal command structures and learning more about how I can edit and customize my computer? And if Cinnamon has shortfalls or weaknesses that I may run into eventually, what are some good alternative distros that I could leapfrog to eventually? I do not have any coding experience (currently), but I do consider myself a semi-power-user on Windows, having messed with CMD many times and digging through all the damn menus to access drivers and alter ports.

  • Forkk@forkk.meEnglish
    531·
    1 year ago

    Ctrl+R to search your bash history. I hate how long I went without knowing this, so I’ve always got to spread the word about it.

      • Damage@feddit.it
        10·
        1 year ago

        if you use zsh, typing the first part of the command and then using the up arrow searches through the history for commands with the same starting characters

        • SturgiesYrFase
          2·
          1 year ago

          This one I knew, but only because I accidentally tapped up instead of right one time

      • Forkk@forkk.meEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Didn’t take me that long, but I had a similar reaction to learning about it haha

      • Octorine@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think I’ve learned and forgotten that tidbit a couple of times. It’s something that I need to do seldom enough that when I finally do, I don’t remember the keybind .

      • chepox@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        1 year ago

        77 times then 78 then 79 for the 3 commands you are looking for you ran consecutively 5 weeks ago

    • mortrekEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Huh… Always just piped the history command through grep

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      41·
      1 year ago

      Also press tab to auto complete the current word (works as soon as you’ve typed enough characters to eliminate ambiguity)