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  • For the most part probably not, but Microsoft cares a lot about backwards compatibility so I imagine some of this code still lives on in Windows

    Though you should take this with a grain of salt, since I’m saying this as someone who 1. never looked at Wine source code 2. used the Windows API only once, for a very small program 3. is still learning programming, so I wouldn’t call myself a coder (yet) either



  • Luna@lemdro.idtoLinux@lemmy.mlTerminal Utility Mega list!
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    10 months ago

    I would add:

    cheat - a tool that lets you make and use your own cheatsheets

    gomi - replacement for the rm command that has a trashcan, so if you accidentally delete something important you can just restore it

    bat - modern cat, with features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc

    eza - modern ls, with cool features like file icons

    broot - a different than ranger/lf approach to navigating folders

    mdr - a markdown viewer

    Also, I think you should add a note that ranger should be installed from git because most distros package version 1.9.3 and that is 4 year out of date and has lots of bugs that have been fixed in the git master branch



  • Helix

    I’d describe it as “NeoVim for people who don’t want to spend time configuring it”. It has syntax highlighting (for pretty much any language you can think of) and LSP support out of the box. And the config file is just a TOML file. Here’s my current config for example:

    theme = "monokai_pro_spectrum"
    
    [editor]
    line-number = "relative"
    middle-click-paste = false
    
    [editor.statusline]
    mode.normal = "NORMAL"
    mode.insert = "INSERT"
    mode.select = "SELECT"
    

    That’s it. No need to deal with Lua or VimScript

    Also using commands after typing the : is easier than in NeoVim since Helix will show you a list of available commands and a description of the closest match (or the one you choose from the list with the tab key). It looks like this: Screenshot of Helix

    I use Helix for quickly editing files and coding



  • Yeah, but when I tried to get my mom to use Linux, she kept asking me how to do some things like moving a file, printing a PDF, saving a document in Libreoffice (even though she had no trouble doing it on Windows also with Libreoffice) etc. I’ve set up everything to be as seamless and close to Windows as possible but she still always had trouble doing something so I gave up, and reinstalled Windows. Ig my mom is just less tech savy than your family ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



  • I think the reason is that 1. Linux is still too hard for the average person and 2. The average person just doesn’t care

    Yes, you don’t have to write bash scripts or compile the kernel yourself, but still, Linux is different in many ways from Windows. This is on top of the fact that most people don’t know much about tech in general and often have problems with (imo) very basic stuff. I honestly can’t imagine them downloading an ISO file, flashing it onto an USB stick and then booting from it. Most people probably don’t even know that Windows != PC

    Then there’s also the fact that the average person just doesn’t care. They just want to get things done

    (sidenote: I might sound elitist but I’m not. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect everyone to be interested in tech, just like it’s not reasonable to, for example, expect everyone to be interested in cars. It just so happens that the tech industry is tightly connected to freedom, privacy, etc. while the car industry is not)