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by sudobash1 918 days ago
When I got my first PC (a Linux Eee PC netbook), I remember opening an xterm and typing each letter of the alphabet, one at a time and hitting TAB-TAB to see all the commands that start with that letter. Not an efficient way to learn how to use bash, but it was exciting.

The biggest hurdle for me was figuring out "how do I open a file?" I could cd around and ls, but what if I wanted to open a .doc in openoffice? There was no "double-click" for the command line.
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wsc981 917 days ago
A nice thing about Apple’s Terminal is the open [0] command. I miss that in Windows Powershell and would likely miss it in Linux as well.

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[0]: https://scriptingosx.com/2017/02/the-macos-open-command/

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ivolimmen 917 days ago
Linux and windows also have this command. Under windows it is called start. Under Linux it is called open as well.
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account42 917 days ago
> Under Linux it is called open as well.

You mean xdg-open? I'm not aware of a commonly available "open" tool under Linux.

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sudobash1 917 days ago
I eventually found out about xdg-open, but I'm glad that I didn't know about it from the start. I learned to open things the more "normal" way (eg `soffice document.doc`).
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w-ll 918 days ago
Sidenote, I really loved and miss my Asus Eee PC, and that netbook era of laptops. That and my og Motorola droid with the slide keyboard was all i needed (along with my big chucky remote server).
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