Guns of Chekhovia

After 27 years, give or take, as a Windows user, I decided to give #Linux a serious try. For the past year or so, I've used Mint, then Debian, and currently Ubuntu as my daily driver at home.

It has been 100% worth it, and the more I learn about the command line and the file system, the more I want to learn.

I am sure it's not this way for everybody, but where Windows always felt like this arcane thing that just *is*, Linux feels like something I can truly understand and control.

Aug 23, 2018 at 6:23pmWeb
Show threadKoncAug 23, 2018
@gunsofchekhovia I love playing in the terminal. When I learned ctrl+R, things got so much easier.
Show threadGuns of ChekhoviaAug 24, 2018

@konc That's a new one for me. I'm working my way through "The #Linux Command Line" by William Shotts, which is an excellent source to learn the command line. But I either missed ctrl+r or haven't gotten to it yet.

http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/

for anyone interested in checking it out.

The Linux Command Line by William Shotts

The Linux Command Line by William Shotts

Show threadKoncAug 24, 2018
@gunsofchekhovia Oh, thanks for the link! And yeah, ctrl+R is probably my favorite thing in terminals. Works on Linux, MacOS, in PowerShell on Windows. Now I don't have to write (or remember) long commands with multiple options, just enough to find it in my commands history. :)
Show threadParnikkaporeAug 24, 2018
@gunsofchekhovia Total agreement! The feeling is compounded when you don't have admin access to your school(-given) laptop, and you find a way to put Linux on it and install anything you want. Caveat: You have to tell the IT staff to pick Windows in grub or they'll be totally perplexed trying to install examination software