• cowfodder@lemmy.world
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      Funny enough, I learned terminal commands initially on a green on black monitor. I can’t use the terminal unless I set it to green on black. My brain literally won’t remember any terminal commands for any flavor of Linux until I change the color scheme.

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    Heh, I remember tinkering with linux waaay back in the day. I had a shitty Slackware install I farted around with, and something I was doing required bootstrapping gcc. I clung to that man page like it was the last lifeboat off the Titanic, but by the end when it worked I felt exactly like this.

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      In Uni I ran Gentoo as my daily driver. It was stupid, but I learned a lot.

      Trying and failing to get a working desktop environment, using IRC on the command line to get help from people who knew what they were doing and could advise a dumb kid like me, following their advice and getting a working DE after a reboot was the most hackerman I ever felt. I was convinced I was real hot shit. In actuality, I’d followed the advice to tweak the kernel config to get working drivers :))

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        Haha, yep. My very first linux install I had to do similar because I had a fucky video card that X11 didn’t support natively, ultimately I had to, er, acquire a commercial X server that did support it to make it work. It was a mess.

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      You should never use “sudo su”. That’s a big security no-no.

      ~$ sudo apt update

      [sudo] password for {your user name}:

      -command executes-

      ~$

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      Use sudo -i instead, gives you an interactive shell without running the su binary with sudo, which is unnecessary

      Edit: it’s i not I

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          It’s a really important switch for doing things like setting up wireguard, which has protected directories, you can’t actually enter the directory for wireguard setup without sudo -i

          (I mean technically you probably can with sudo su, too, but this is more elegant and less redundant)

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      What’s the problem exactly? There are many ways to do it, and I think saying you run apt-get update is quite fine even if you’re not explicitly saying that you run it as root. And he may not have flatpaks.