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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed a few different distros, landed on Cinnamon Mint. I'm not a tech dummy, but I feel I'm in over my head.

I installed Docker in the terminal (two things I'm not familiar with) but I can't find it anywhere. Googled some stuff, tried to run stuff, and... I dunno.

I'm TRYING to learn docker so I can set up audiobookshelf and Sonarr with Sabnzbd.

Once it's installed in the terminal, how the hell do I find docker so I can start playing with it?

Is there a Linux for people who are deeply entrenched in how Windows works? I'm not above googling command lines that I can copy and paste but I've spent HOURS trying to figure this out and have gotten no where...

Thanks! Sorry if this is the wrong place for this

EDIT : holy moly. I posted this and went to bed. Didn't quite realize the hornets nest I was going to kick. THANK YOU to everyone who has and is about to comment. It tells you how much traction I usually get because I usually answer every response on lemmy and the former. For this one I don't think I'll be able to do it.

I've got a few little ones so time to sit and work on this is tough (thus 5h last night after they were in bed) but I'm going to start picking at all your suggestions (and anyone else who contributes as well)

Thank you so much everyone! I think windows has taught me to be very visually reliant and yelling into the abyss that is the terminal is a whole different beast - but I'm willing to give it a go!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

AI can be of great help when learning docker, as it is genuinely super confusing. You don't "find" docker, it's a terminal program that you interact with... From the terminal.

I'm gonna get A LOT of hate for this, but check out Warp terminal. It has a really nice GUI for configuration and really nice autocomplete for commands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why should you get hate for the warp terminal? I’ve never used it but it looks quite nice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Because it requires you to sign in with the cloud and bloated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Oh, that's a no from me then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@llii @Presi300 It was made for apple users and evidently so (it's basically #alacritty and #tmux but closed source, cloud-based and with some AI bullcrap on top of it)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Ok, this isn't for me than.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you can call literally any more advanced terminal "alacritty with tmux", but I don't think that's fair. And I for one find Warp's AI features fairly useful. It's also as I mentioned above got a really nice autocomplete and configuration UI. (It's autocomplete is an absolute godsent when it comes to dealing with docker...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I would enjoy training a LLM on my aggregated command history and using that for auto completion, or maybe using an open source one trained on a larger set from the community, but I am very uncomfortable sending data about every command (as I'm writing it!) to any company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Because it's closed source and requires a sign in. Imo worth it, as it's a very nice terminal.