tl;dr: Gradual exposure over time.

I got used to it through work, as I had to ssh into a server to run simulations. That mainly involved navigating the file system and text editing (which I used vim for) to make some basic Python and bash scripts, including sed and awk. The latter two I never got comfortable using, and haven’t really touched since.

I was using macOS at the time, and after using that for work, the terminal in macOS got at first less scary and then a preferred way of accomplishing certain tasks. On my work Windows computer I started missing having a proper terminal around, and I eventually found Cygwin and later Git Bash to give me that terminal fix in Windows as well. Especially with the latter I noticed few differences and could use it to a large extent as I would have on my then Macbook.

2-3 years ago I was in need of a new computer, and at that point a laptop with Linux on it was not a very scary prospect. That is by no way saying I went into Linux as an expert, far from it, and I am still very much a newbie - but opening the terminal to work with things is not at all a barrier, which helps a lot if you use Linux and want to be able to do some changes from the defaults. If you don’t want that, I think you can go far these days without opening the terminal, but it is certainly a good skill to have.

You also don’t have access to your fire box in that Hanoi alley.

hunter2 can both be stored in a password mananger and be remembered!

That’s simple and smart. I had played around with the thought of storing encrypted versions of my password manager vault freely available, and making the password a Ceasar cipher of the first letters of each chapter of some book I am sure to find freely online. Not so simple and smart, but at least some fun. Except maybe when you actually need to use it.

At least it was a good night.

I’m thankfully currently not in that situation, but while the situation is meant as a joke, the question is serious.

If I stored everything I needed on a Google account that’s not 2FA-enabled and with a password you remember in your head, things are not that bleak in this particular situation, although it is hardly a convenience that makes it worth it to have that kind of setup in my opinion (and I would assume to most people frequenting this community).

On what computer, and where did you get the ISO from?

Hey! It works now :) After opening it up, I ended up cleaning the nozzles by pumping isopropanol through them (filled a syringe with it, removed the dummy cartridges and connected the syringe and nozzles with a PVC-tube). After that I ran the nozzle cleaning program through the epson-printer-utility tool a couple of times (not the power cleaning), and then printed some full color pages of CMYK.

The program, which initially this post was about (hence the Linix community) worked once I realized it didn’t pick it up while I was connected with VPN. Then scanning tool does, not sure how this tool atrempts to find the printer that it is not caught by the default split tunneling set up by Proton VPN.

Finamp you mean?

Therefore, the only thing it is changing based on regional settings is the use of the comma or period to denote a decimal.

Also I don’t see how from this post the decimal point is wrong. Sure it is simplified to one decimal place, but again many calculators do this.

It uses a comma instead of a punctuation mark as the decimal point. Default numbers formatting on my system uses a punctuation mark. In other words, it is ignoring my system settings for what numbers should look like.

I could be wrong considering I had a bit of trouble understanding the post. I just bring this up because in American English there are no delimiters for thousands place or above either.

In that case I would expect it to output the numbers without the delimiter. But I have not set the number formatting to American English.

I have had a Tuxedo InfinityBook 14 Gen7, and I’ve been happy with it. They focus on hardware that has a good compatibility with Linux, so it works well out of the box without any tinkering. You say you don’t have a high budget though, so these might be too expensive (I believe you can get similar specs at a lower price), but I’ve also been very satisfied with the after sales service they have provided - I’ve had some issues with it since I got it, but if it was Tuxedo specific (or appeared to me to be Tuxedo specific), and thus not easy to find general troubleshooting help online, I contacted them and I was helped out promptly, both via e-mail and the phone.

The reason a very small subset of users love it*

All the downloads making it the top app in the app stores are from people using their centralized service. The people behind these downloads have no clue that you can run it locally or can even start to understand what that would even mean. It is this usage the article is addressing.

Like the thread starter, I am also confused to why this in particular draws so much hate.

That sounds awesome

tmux has been on my to-learn list forever now. Seems it should be bumped up in priority.

NetworkManager was not installed on my system, but I will look into this later and check out nmcli and nmtui (as suggested below) to get familiar with these tools.

I don’t think it uses netplan.io - it is a very standard Debian server install - netplan.io being Canonical, I guess that would typically be found on Ubuntu installs?

nmtui sounds nice. I didn’t end up installing NetworkManager now, but it is something I will look more into, so I’ve noted it down. Learning networks is a big goal for this year.

‘ip a’ to show your active addresses

Nice, now only my ethernet interface shows an IP after implementing the changes to etc/network/interfaces as described in an edit in the OP.

rfkill to hard disable wireless devices

rfkill was also not isntalled by default on my server, but I’ve installed it now and see that they (i.e. bluetooth and wifi) are unblocked, so I will now go learn how to block them. :)

nmtui if you want a simple way to change network configuration or disable something

Nice, I will check this out!

Tech Broligarchy*

Thanks! That worked right away :) I have also entered the correct environment variable in Flatseal now, and it opens as expected now from the desktop shortcut.

Just to explain why they’re stored there: you’re trying to change the config of the sandbox itself not the app. Flatpak manages the sandbox and it is flatpak that needs to know what permission an app should have. Any files in “~/.var/app/…” pertain to the app itself inside it’s sandbox.

Thanks for this explanation! I love Linux after having used it for two years now, but the sheer amount of things to know about is quite overwhelming when I don’t always have too much time to spend on learning. It doesn’t always feel like I’m getting any better (although I know that is not true), but comments such as yours is certainly helping people like me become better users :)

Cheers, it looks like I will have to open up this week end then and forget about these cleaning programs.

Thanks for that! I’m not quite sure what the dummy cartridge is, however, and how I would access it. Would you be able to elaborate on that?