From Noob To Power User With Linux Mint Cinnamon DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Don
Was lost after the 1st minute. Super this and super that. What is super? Key bindings? And just tons of acronyms and jargon no nooby would understand. You assumed noobys would know lots of Linux commands as you rush through typing at 1000mph and want to just rattle of at least 50 terms every minute that noobys won't understand. Didn't get 90% of the examples you were doing and couldnt even tell what or why you were doing it And you demean widgets? Sorry but I use at least 8 of them a lot in Windows and love them. And I would never use the keyboard unless I absolutely had to. Terminal packages should be almost dead. Frankly if this is nooby information, I doubt I will do much with the Linux Mint I just installed as a dual boot . I want a gui way of doing almost everything I do. I don't want to have to be a programmer just to use an OS. That's the reason Linux distros all went to gui. But ask for help on Linux and you get someone telling you to type dozens of command lines. Tell me how to do the jobs in the GUI. That's what it's there for. Typing is so dead in almost everything but Linux. If I wanted to continue to use an OS that works no easier than DOS did, why bother. If you can't do it with a mouse or window I'll just stick with Windows. It's amazing that Linux distros and the 1st thing any Linux power user says is to not use the GUI. That's what every user should become an expert on. No one wants to type when they can click a couple of times. The only reason to use a keyboard should be to type text data into a program. That's why most Windows users will never switch to Linux. Linux has GUI now which should be 10 times easier to use than paragraph after paragraph of typing. Windows and widgets and gui is the way any OS should be. Would never do anything you showed in this video. Too much typing.
You might be a power user but you are teaching as if you are talking to only other power users . Bad video if you are a nooby as the title implies.
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Was lost after the 1st minute. Super this and super that. What is super? Key bindings? And just tons of acronyms and jargon no nooby would understand. You assumed noobys would know lots of Linux commands as you rush through typing at 1000mph and want to just rattle of at least 50 terms every minute that noobys won't understand. Didn't get 90% of the examples you were doing and couldnt even tell what or why you were doing it And you demean widgets? Sorry but I use at least 8 of them a lot in Windows and love them. And I would never use the keyboard unless I absolutely had to. Terminal packages should be almost dead. Frankly if this is nooby information, I doubt I will do much with the Linux Mint I just installed as a dual boot . I want a gui way of doing almost everything I do. I don't want to have to be a programmer just to use an OS. That's the reason Linux distros all went to gui. But ask for help on Linux and you get someone telling you to type dozens of command lines. Tell me how to do the jobs in the GUI. That's what it's there for. Typing is so dead in almost everything but Linux. If I wanted to continue to use an OS that works no easier than DOS did, why bother. If you can't do it with a mouse or window I'll just stick with Windows. It's amazing that Linux distros and the 1st thing any Linux power user says is to not use the GUI. That's what every user should become an expert on. No one wants to type when they can click a couple of times. The only reason to use a keyboard should be to type text data into a program. That's why most Windows users will never switch to Linux. Linux has GUI now which should be 10 times easier to use than paragraph after paragraph of typing. Windows and widgets and gui is the way any OS should be. Would never do anything you showed in this video. Too much typing.
You might be a power user but you are teaching as if you are talking to only other power users . Bad video if you are a nooby as the title implies.
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Jim
REAL power users ...
1) Make HARD LINKS from the hidden files they want to displayed - to their hidden counterparts. This way you can still hide the stuff you want to be hidden, whilst removing any 'magic' installed by your administrator(s), window manager, and applications.
2) Break up their .bashrc and .profile content into manageable sub-sections that are indepently sourced in from other files, usually in -/etc. Plus they're conditionally sourced in via a short shell function that will silently skip over any components that are missing. The big 3 are sections for environment, shell functions, and aliases - but you can have others for ansi_colors, dircolors, gcc-colors, or any other shell environment component.
3) Because they know how to write their own shell function wrappers around anything, they have written shell functions to both append and PREpend to the original PATH, and then use PREpend to place -/bin before any other directory. They can thus customize/envelop any other command as necessary.
4) They put meaningful information, such as the current hostname, username, groupname, current directory, and time-of-day into their shell prompt. This is a must for people that do a lot of ssh terminal work, or often change groups or IDs via 'su' or 'sg'.
5) Have multiple virtual desktops AND know how to get different screen backgrounds and/or window decorations/behavior on each one, so that when they're running containers/VMs/guest OSs, they always know where they are and get the behavior they expect.
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REAL power users ...
1) Make HARD LINKS from the hidden files they want to displayed - to their hidden counterparts. This way you can still hide the stuff you want to be hidden, whilst removing any 'magic' installed by your administrator(s), window manager, and applications.
2) Break up their .bashrc and .profile content into manageable sub-sections that are indepently sourced in from other files, usually in -/etc. Plus they're conditionally sourced in via a short shell function that will silently skip over any components that are missing. The big 3 are sections for environment, shell functions, and aliases - but you can have others for ansi_colors, dircolors, gcc-colors, or any other shell environment component.
3) Because they know how to write their own shell function wrappers around anything, they have written shell functions to both append and PREpend to the original PATH, and then use PREpend to place -/bin before any other directory. They can thus customize/envelop any other command as necessary.
4) They put meaningful information, such as the current hostname, username, groupname, current directory, and time-of-day into their shell prompt. This is a must for people that do a lot of ssh terminal work, or often change groups or IDs via 'su' or 'sg'.
5) Have multiple virtual desktops AND know how to get different screen backgrounds and/or window decorations/behavior on each one, so that when they're running containers/VMs/guest OSs, they always know where they are and get the behavior they expect.
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Ezykiel
Not just useful for new users! I've been using Linux on and off (mostly on) since 2008 with Ubuntu 8.10, used a variety of distros and DEs/WMs with varying success in that time. I've used GUIs that I've hated and GUIs that I've loved. For the last 2 years I've been using Arch with GNOME3 but was unhappy with some of the changes in the switch over to GNOME40, and I've been looking for something I can make better use of keybinds with without making the full switch to a tiling WM just yet. This is perfect. I've moved both my laptop and my desktop over to this, with a few small tweaks. Thank you DT.
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Not just useful for new users! I've been using Linux on and off (mostly on) since 2008 with Ubuntu 8.10, used a variety of distros and DEs/WMs with varying success in that time. I've used GUIs that I've hated and GUIs that I've loved. For the last 2 years I've been using Arch with GNOME3 but was unhappy with some of the changes in the switch over to GNOME40, and I've been looking for something I can make better use of keybinds with without making the full switch to a tiling WM just yet. This is perfect. I've moved both my laptop and my desktop over to this, with a few small tweaks. Thank you DT.
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Cotoi
I use Ubuntu standard, for 6-7 years now, I only us LTS, with the default interface, and honestly I do not feel the need to try anything else. I istalled a server with samba, I didn't felt the need install any GUI, and for me a GUI is just something that I need for my office work, I always update stuff from terminal, I check my network from terminal, ad new repositories from terminal, so for me linux became just linux. I would not care ... in fact I may actually prefer to have Rasbian on my working machine, because it is small and anything I need I can put there myself.
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I use Ubuntu standard, for 6-7 years now, I only us LTS, with the default interface, and honestly I do not feel the need to try anything else. I istalled a server with samba, I didn't felt the need install any GUI, and for me a GUI is just something that I need for my office work, I always update stuff from terminal, I check my network from terminal, ad new repositories from terminal, so for me linux became just linux. I would not care ... in fact I may actually prefer to have Rasbian on my working machine, because it is small and anything I need I can put there myself.
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Jlandy71
this is a great video. i am thinking about switching to linux.. and i been really leaning towards pop os. will this work in that as well? i do tend to tweak this kind of stuff i must admit. and i know that bassically all ubuntu should be able to make these same changes right? and also i have 3 HDD in my comp. after i install pop os will it see the other HDD and what is on them or will they need to be wiped as well?
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this is a great video. i am thinking about switching to linux.. and i been really leaning towards pop os. will this work in that as well? i do tend to tweak this kind of stuff i must admit. and i know that bassically all ubuntu should be able to make these same changes right? and also i have 3 HDD in my comp. after i install pop os will it see the other HDD and what is on them or will they need to be wiped as well?
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Miguel
mmm do I earn my life developing software, and for the past solid 10 years I have been using ubuntu to do so, I dont have the time to deal with crap besides my own development challenges, ubuntu is ROCK solid and that is all that there is to be there.. and dont get me wrong. i can compile my own kernels and I can write a driver from scratch.. just not willing to add another layer of stuff to have to deal with ..
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mmm do I earn my life developing software, and for the past solid 10 years I have been using ubuntu to do so, I dont have the time to deal with crap besides my own development challenges, ubuntu is ROCK solid and that is all that there is to be there.. and dont get me wrong. i can compile my own kernels and I can write a driver from scratch.. just not willing to add another layer of stuff to have to deal with ..
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RedSnt
He does have a point. I used regular flat mice all my life, and at the age of 36 my right hand started hurting when I used the mouse. I've since changed to a vertical mouse, which has solved the problem, but who knows, if I had been using the keyboard more I might've been problem-free for a couple of more years. Can't run from age, but one can prepare.
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He does have a point. I used regular flat mice all my life, and at the age of 36 my right hand started hurting when I used the mouse. I've since changed to a vertical mouse, which has solved the problem, but who knows, if I had been using the keyboard more I might've been problem-free for a couple of more years. Can't run from age, but one can prepare.
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Takaka
Now, show me the steps on how to undo every change you-ve made. Linux makes it easy to install this/Git/reprogram that- Add a dozen repositories and all sorts of extraneous dust-But it-s a nightmare to revert back to the original state. You can build up CRUFT real quickly there. Then there-s the easy way- -Just reinstall-- Not!
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Now, show me the steps on how to undo every change you-ve made. Linux makes it easy to install this/Git/reprogram that- Add a dozen repositories and all sorts of extraneous dust-But it-s a nightmare to revert back to the original state. You can build up CRUFT real quickly there. Then there-s the easy way- -Just reinstall-- Not!
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Christopher
Would've been helpful to explain what the -super key- is, I've never heard this term in 25 years of Windows and Mac computing.
For those also curious, it's the Windows key on a PC keyboard and the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
Great video! Giving Linux a chance again and have been seriously enjoying your content.
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Would've been helpful to explain what the -super key- is, I've never heard this term in 25 years of Windows and Mac computing.
For those also curious, it's the Windows key on a PC keyboard and the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
Great video! Giving Linux a chance again and have been seriously enjoying your content.
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Bruce
DT how could you!
- don't install sl ( you know what it is xD)
- don't install mc (best terminal copy machine if you have to deal with a ton of files)
- don't install cmatrix
- don't install htop (or better grace)
hey but you did the neofetch bashrc mod, you know it is mandatory for power users :DDDD
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DT how could you!
- don't install sl ( you know what it is xD)
- don't install mc (best terminal copy machine if you have to deal with a ton of files)
- don't install cmatrix
- don't install htop (or better grace)
hey but you did the neofetch bashrc mod, you know it is mandatory for power users :DDDD
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