Bring Your Linux Knowledge Up with Required Command Line Settings

There are things in Linux that are clearly more difficult than Windows. In this video I will teach about Linux commands that are trivial to execute in Windows but is more difficult in Linux. These are so common and yet many who use Linux will not know how to do a lot of this. Don't be intimidated though as most of the commands in Linux are a matter of cut and paste.

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List Storage Devices:
lsblk -l -e7

List UUID of Storage Devices
lsblk -f -e7

Fornat exFAT

Fstab Setting to Mount Device
UUID=your_uuid /home/your_username/Documents/sd exfat defaults,rw,auto,user,umask=000 0 0

Edit Fstab
sudo apt -y install util-linux
sudo nano / etc/ fstab
sudo mkdir home/username/Documents/sd

APT Install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install Software_name
sudo snap install Software_name
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:Software_name/ppa

.deb Install

FlatPak Install:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak
sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
example:
flatpak install flathub firefox

Location of Icons
/usr/share/applications

[Desktop Entry]
Name=KeePassXC
GenericName=Password manager
Exec=/home/username/apps/KeePassXC-2.7.9-x86_64.AppImage %f
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Utility;
MimeType=application/x-keepassXC;

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[Legomanfred]

I switched from Windoze to Linux over 15 years ago. I was tired of the problems I experienced with Windoze. I've brought many friends over to the "dark side" as well. Linux is more work and more hands on because it's more secure. Great video. 👍

[shofarhagadol]

This was great. I struggled initially with these over the years. Your video brought great context for me. I would like to see you bring more of these Linux videos. Thank you.

[GustavAgar]

I use LMDE6, Linux Mint based on Debian since 3-4 years ago and i dont regret. Best choice i have made ever

[alphaomega]

I recently switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's been surprisingly easy; no need for command line so far, but I admit I just use Libre Office and the browser for searches and videos

[robertdelgreco]

I have been running Arch for many years. I started on Debian and Ubuntu. This a great info for beginners. Thanks for putting this out.

[BobFromPineCreek]

I almost choked on my lunch when you said squiggly character. That was hilarious.

[thiccelectronicc]

Thank you for the informative video! As shell (terminal) 'sudo' commands can wreak havoc in your file system, it's a good idea in my opinion to first type a hash character, which is the comment character in bash shell, then type the command or paste it from the clipboard (risky!). Examine the command and if everything is fine and you are in the correct directory, press Enter. Nothing happens as the command is just a comment. But it goes to the command history. Then, press the Up arrow to retrieve the sudo command. Remove the hash character but replace it with a space. Then press Enter. Now the command is executed, but it will not go to the command history, where you could accidentally retrieve it when you press Up arrow too many times. The bash history acts as a log of the commands that you have given, but in a safe format as all the logged commands are comments! Back up your command history to later see what you have done and when (add some time stamps as comments, too).

[cordovajose]

this is great, you don't sugar-coat Linux to make it easier than it really is while at the same time not over-complicating stuff like "those folks".

[harrymills]

Moving to Linux as soon as I retire. So much of my work depends on proprietary software in Windoze. Early (1980s) user of UNIX. Been through the Windoze NT phase at work, where they tell you all the things that are impossible, due to security, but knowing more stable UNIX was doing those things for years. What the NT gurus wanted you to believe was UNIX was weak and Windoze was best. I just laughed and used commercial servers for my needs.

[marknakasone]

Temple OS is the ultimate for privacy. Open BSD also a good option

[Scott_in_LA]

This is great Rob, thank you for this! I've been using Ubuntu as well as LMDE for quite a few years, but grew up on Windows, so this was a great refresher.

[DV-mlfm]

Linux user since 2000. You barely scratched the surface of the powerful terminal and the commands. But it's great for new users.

[cx]

Running Linux system from last year. problem found with Linux 'experts' are the Linux 'Experts'.
Too many of them are arrogant & elitist when it comes to Linux. Been talked to as if I'm a sub-human.

[laptopdragon]

Tab is the most important button... it's so important you gotta hit it twice.

[NoEggu]

@3:47 -- Editing a text file.
"nano" is very popular, and is great for beginners, or for folks used to using Windows "notepad".

But if you do a lot of text editing, then familiarize yourself with "vi" (or "vim").
"vi" stands for "visual".
"vim" takes on a clever "improved" meaning, as in vi improved.

When you become proficient with "vi" or "vim", you will blast though your editing sessions. You will not need your mouse.
"vi" has been around since before computers used monitors (everything was outputted to a paper feed). So any Linux or UNIX OS will have "vi". And any somewhat recent Linux or UNIX OS will very likely all have "vim", too.

If you are editing your own files, there is no need to use "sudo".


@7:38 -- exFAT is fine. But you can also use NTFS on nearly any modern Linux distro. That was not the case some years ago. But today, NTFS is supported.
NTFS will be much slower than ext4, on a Linux system, because NTFS will run in the much slower "user" space, whereas ext4 runs in the "kernel" space.

For a few megabytes, you probably will not notice any difference between ext4, exFAT, and NTFS. But for large files, or countless small files, NTFS will be noticeably slower than ext4.

So if your SD card, or USB drive, etc, is already formatted with NTFS, you should be fine.

[SDJ]

On Mint, drives can be accessed via the 'media' folder without doing any mounting. However, it is handy to have them mounted in other locations too.

[sparkspl]

Switched to Linux Mint year ago, I refuse to be Microsoft's puppet.

[СашаПетровић-нх]

Please, dont use "sudo" if you managing your user data. Editing text in user ownership with sudo is overkill.

[kansascityonline]

luv my Kubuntu plasma KDE.. its smokin fast.. been using Linux for 20yrs...

[Sb]

I always read 'etc' as "et cetera", I wonder how many others call it "Etsy"?
Also kinda funny how entrenched the command line still is in linux, imagine if I had to open command prompt to give a file an icon, Lol~!