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Does Terminal use actually make sense in the real world? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I know we all enjoy being nerds and using commands (H4ckerman). But now that everything is either a gui or web based, is there really any use to terminal commands?

For example, on windows I never used powershell or cmd hardly ever. I realize now I probably could have. But Linux just drives me to use it more, which i like anyway (because let's be honest, it makes us feel superior)

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

My mate installed Linux Mint the other week. (Yay) I don't know how Mint is different from Bazzite, or what file manager he is using, but I know enough terminal to show him how to mount his old hard drive and save some files from his windows partition.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    My mate installed Linux Mint the other week. (Yay) I don't know how Mint is different from Bazzite

    Bazzite is Fedora based whereas Linux Mint is Debian based, BASH is a pretty universal language so most commands will be interchangeable however, you two have entirely different package managers so installing software will be different.

    Also Bazzite is immutable so if I’m not mistaken changes to system files like /etc/bash.bashrc will not persist for you upon updates whereas on Linux Mint it will always remain the same regardless of updates, this may not be the greatest example because when I upgraded from Debian 12 to 13 I was asked if I wanted to keep the file the same or if I wanted to use the package maintainers version, but I think I got the idea across.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Bazzite is not perfect, (I might even switch back to EndevourOS if/when I'm bored of my gaming phase) but right now, all but 1 of my steam games are launching, and my GOG games are all working first try with Heroic.

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