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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Retrograde    |
|    Re: terminal only for two weeks    |
|    25 Nov 24 21:52:59    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On 25 Nov 2024 13:34:25 GMT, Retrograde wrote:              > This comes down to not knowing most commands by heart,       > and often not even knowing the options and flags for the most basic of       > commands ...              Don’t need to. Type “man «cmd»” to see all the details of the options       available for any external command. I do this all the time.              > I’m glad any modern Linux distribution – I use Fedora KDE on all my       > computers – offers both paths for almost anything you could do on your       > computer, and unless I specifically opt to do so, I literally –       > literally literally – never have to touch the command line.              Also, running a command line through a GUI terminal emulator lets you take       advantage of cut/copy/paste between windows, which is a feature not       available on a pure-command-line system.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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