I actually really enjoy using the Unix terminal for things. As a Mac OS user when I was younger I had to jump into the terminal to do things like launch a Minecraft server, and for some reason it felt like the coolest thing ever. Like I was hacking into the Matrix. I also enjoyed playing with command lines in games like Quake and Riddick and Minecraft. The terminal for the most part is pretty easy to understand to me at least especially just navigating the computer with cd and such.
as someone trying to escape the total newbie stage of using linux Im reading "The Linux Command Line" from No Starch Press. It's not written as just a list of comands but long form tutorial on the comand line as a whole.
Funny how most people think the easiest program to use on your PC is the hardest to use and learn. GUIs are made to make harder things to config and input easier and the whole point of command lines is to make sure those easier but more detailed inputs is as straightforward as possible for the system to register. It's entirely possible to automate the complicated command lines, but it's easier to just keep a text document or website with the commands you need on the daily so you can always see them every time you copy them and it becomes muscle memory. That being said, on modern Linux, it's your choice how much or how little you use the terminal. The real main takeaway however is that fixing and configuring your OS to how you like it is more faster and reliable in a terminal on any OS
I actually really enjoy using the Unix terminal for things. As a Mac OS user when I was younger I had to jump into the terminal to do things like launch a Minecraft server, and for some reason it felt like the coolest thing ever. Like I was hacking into the Matrix. I also enjoyed playing with command lines in games like Quake and Riddick and Minecraft. The terminal for the most part is pretty easy to understand to me at least especially just navigating the computer with cd and such.
as someone trying to escape the total newbie stage of using linux Im reading "The Linux Command Line" from No Starch Press.
It's not written as just a list of comands but long form tutorial on the comand line as a whole.
the basic shell scripting you do has less than 50 commands, in which most of them aren't even going to be used most of the time.
I love linux , but i hate when i have to install figma or similar products in 2 hours and at the end it does not work ,
Funny how most people think the easiest program to use on your PC is the hardest to use and learn. GUIs are made to make harder things to config and input easier and the whole point of command lines is to make sure those easier but more detailed inputs is as straightforward as possible for the system to register.
It's entirely possible to automate the complicated command lines, but it's easier to just keep a text document or website with the commands you need on the daily so you can always see them every time you copy them and it becomes muscle memory. That being said, on modern Linux, it's your choice how much or how little you use the terminal. The real main takeaway however is that fixing and configuring your OS to how you like it is more faster and reliable in a terminal on any OS