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I run into the issue that after using Linux for so long, I forget that the basics of using the system aren’t just common knowledge. Telling someone to cat a file sounds like gibberish to most people and that’s easy to forget.
There are also a lot of people out there who want to be hand held through every little thing which is the worst way to learn anything. A calm sea never made a skilled sailor, some stuff you gotta just figure out on your own.
I need Emacs, a terminal emulator and a web browser to be productive, but basically nothing else. (Give me my tiling window manager, with a config I haven’t bothered to update the past few years for an extra 3% bump in efficiency.)
It’s weird, I know how all the components in a modern desktop environment work and fit together but I don’t want to care anymore. I want someone to hold my hand, manage my system and make all the thinking go away, right up until I ssh out from my desktop and out into a fleet of servers and start spewing out esoteric commands and orchestration.
My dream is to have someone manage my desktop for me, so I don’t even have to think about it.
Ngl, I forgtet command options all the time. Its usually just a case of looking at the man to refresh my memory.