Nah I just ask deepseek. It set up a set of dockers for me in 2 minutes and also gave me commands to create my folder structures.
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You probably did this, but for anyone reading, if you copy commands from the internet, look up what all the commands and flags do to be sure you understand it fully, and then type it in yourself in a terminal instead of copy/paste. If you get an instruction to curl | sh, split it into two steps, curl to get the script to a local file you can read, read it, then run if you know what it does. Do these things for anything you don't trust 100%.
I did half of that. I looked at the commands to see what it did, what folders it made. Then I checked that the dockers pulled is the same from the official docker sites. I pasted the codes in rather than manual typing though. Iβve done this from sonarr, radar, audiobookshelf, jellyfin and sabnzbd.
The terminal commands to get dockers working I did copy directly from deepseek after checking itβs the same on dockerβs site. Weird part is I tried to follow dockerβs instructions first but it didnβt work. Then after looking at deepseek, it gave the same instructions from a different page of deepseek. So what I copied into command should have been the same.
Other than that I donβt really install anything as Iβm quite paranoid about these stuff.
Good. To be honest I sometimes copy/paste too, but there is a possible trick to hide characters in the copied text with an automatic return at the end so when you paste you immediately run something you don't intended. If I copy from some random shady blog I'd be more careful than from the official docker documentation I guess.
That makes sense. What about AI answers, it feels unlikely for AI to do that.
And the less you use Windows, the worse you get at using it. Luckily the bar for Windows competency is pretty low, just basic critical thinking skills and Google get you far.
You can make that point for any operating system, basic critical thinking could mean anything
You could but you'd be drawing a false equivalency.
Honestly, potentially the more you use Windows the worse you get at it. You come to accept the garbage, but the more you try to fix it the more it fights you and the less stable it becomes. A user who just doesn't touch anything is probably better off.
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I'm sure this will draw some criticism but I've found duck.ai to be extremely helpful in troubleshooting minor issues with my Linux mint installation and recently with accessing and understanding SMART hard drive diagnostic data. It's very helpful in figuring out which commands could be useful in the terminal and in understanding exactly what each terminal command is doing. Of course finding answers in forums and manuals is still relevant and important but as a beginner, this has been a fast and easy way to get advice.
Just be careful to think twice before doing what it says. (That goes for any advice from the internet too!)
Like all the old stories of people's GPS steering them into a lake. Let the GPS help you, but still, like, actually look at the road!
ETA: It's probably quite reliable at explaining what terminal commands do, since it's drawing from many manuals. But sometimes it might completely make up the answer, in a way that's almost right but terribly wrong. You think the command does one thing, so you use it 'appropriately', but really it does something else so your carefully thought out use goes completely wrong.
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Over the years of using Windows (2010-2023), I don't remember learning anything at all, only using the command line twice, once to check the hard disk and once to clean the registry... I'm in love with Linux terminal.
Did you not learn anything because you simply did not need to, perhaps? Because you can do a lot if you need to.
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Wait, you guys are getting better? /j
im still stuck in vi hell... help... cannot exit program
Have you tried standing up from your computer and going outside? It's the only 100% reliable way I've found to exit vim.
Arson is also good.
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There's no exiting vi, gotta buy a new computer
Dude, just reboot the machine, as long as vi is not autostarting you should be good
I added vi to startup and I can't modify my startup items because I can't figure out how to save in vi
I'm sorry, but i can't save you anymore. I promise to remeber you until my last day on earth
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it's a good os. on the other hand everytime i learned anything in windows it would get invalidated by new ux and new bugs...
Do you guys also keep a notepad file on your desktop with all the usual commands and shortcuts on it? I can't imagine remembering them all otherwise... and I kind of cringe at the non stop DDG ing I have to do to do some basic liux stuff.
Try a different shell, like fish or zsh, maybe. Something with really intense command auto-completion and history.
I personally use fish, it is amazing for this kind of thing.
ETA: also read up on rc files for whatever shell you are using. Creating aliases and functions based on what you do all the time is essential IMO.
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You'll get to the point where you can't use windows anymore XD
I had to troubleshoot some windows problems for family a bit back, and it was the worst x3
I'm about at that point. I had to set up a Windows VM last year to do some testing. It was more of a struggle to install than I expected.
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If you are the βcomputer personβ in your family, you probably have experience screwing with, breaking, and fixing whatever OSes you have used over the years.
The refreshing difference with Linux is that the software and the people who created it are not trying to prevent you from doing what you want with your computer.
That's why sausages are better than Linux: you can start using them on a professional level right from the start. And as a bonus sausages don't use Nvidia!
...and this was before April...
This timeline is so fucked πππ
This is why you have to switch to more and more difficult distros over time, to keep yourself on your toes
It's a bell curve. Eventually you switch back to ez mode for your main machine and have alternative or niche distros on spare kit
Ken Thompson, who invented UNIX first in assembly and then rewrote it in C, is now running a Debian derived OS as his main daily driver.
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Wow, in that way it's almost like Linux is the same as every other thing.
I'm still gonna have to dual boot for the foreseeable future, but I force myself to usually boot mint unless I want to play any vr/multiplayer/racing games (which is often, unfortunately). But I do really enjoy how much you can do in linux and learning it.
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