Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don't want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it's maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?
Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don’t want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it’s maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?
Yes, that's just you and probably explains why you are on a programming Lemmy instance.
Personally I like to use the terminal myself for reasons including starting some GUI applications but I am sure that most people ("normies") would run away screaming if the first moment they would spot a terminal. See, everyone has their own preferences :)
I have no critique of anyone's preference. I joined the linux board looking for discussions on novel ways to use the system.
Since I haven't found that here, I thought I'd add a comment to see if it's just me. And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.
Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.
Since I haven’t found that here, I thought I’d add a comment to see if it’s just me.
And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.
Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.
Right. It's in my opinion not so easy to find communities or finding people wanting to share the same interests. How about these ?
I know you're joking anyways, but I always cringe when I see that. There's no need to invoke su there. If you want a root shell, use sudo -s or sudo -i depending on what kind of shell you want.
If you want to invent and maintain your wheel then go ahead.. but I think we have better things to do than maintaining half the code of an operating system.
Udisksctl has a variety of relevant features, and it works good, kind of.