I’m a Windows user of all life. But I love Linux. And these last two years after so many time I started learning it in deep . But one thing is bugging me is that I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words… imagine commands… Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I’m struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are … Different. What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ? My guess is that A LOT of people happens the same. And it’s one of the reasons Linux has such a slow adption . Because is excellent and full of capabilities.

  • @Deckweiss
    18•3 days ago

    Here is my personal approach to this.

    • I have set my bash history to a ridiculous 1000000 max length, so that I can use CTRL+R to search for commands that I have ran before

    • I write down a lot of commands in a searchable note text document

    • Ask chatGPT

    • Use the tldr command

    • Added A LOT of verbose custom aliases and scripts. For example instead of

    inotifywait -m -r --exclude "(/tmp.*|/var/cache.*|/dev/pts/|/var/log.*)" -e MOVED_TO -e CREATE -e CLOSE_WRITE -e DELETE -e MODIFY . (nobody can remember that alphabet gibberish)

    I just type watch_for_changes .

    Since it is verbose, straight from my brain, I always remember it and it works with autocomplete. I have like ~30 such commands so far.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 days ago

        That’s an interesting little program. Not sure if it’s for me - I’ll either remember/lookup commands or create bash scripts for more complicated things - but it’s good to know about.

      • @Deckweiss
        2•3 days ago

        Great concept, but I don’t live in the terminal and prefer GUI text editor features (like jumping the cursor with a mouseclick).

        The workflow on the git page looks extremely clunky compared to a good old textfile.