Linux

13226 readers

327 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev

235

I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago by vividspecter@aussie.zone to c/linux@programming.dev

24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 days ago

I'll never understand why people use apt-get for anything other than scripting, or specialized commands when programmers have put in real effort to make apt easy.

The author could have saved 4 keystrokes! Saving keystrokes is the entire point of Linux! Just look at how abbreviated the root folder naming scheme is. It took years of effort to find the perfect abbreviations and directory structure to minimize keystroke. The loss of legibility and discoverability might suck, but it's worth it. And this author is over here wasting keyboard fuel on "-get". smh