I’ve got to confess, I have for years been guilty if not reading the documentation. I simply go with the flow and hope it works…

But not anymore! And why the change you may ask? We’ll, I’m reading the f…ing documentation on Rocky linux and I’m just blown away from the amount of great information!

If you’ve been guilty of not reading the documentation, let me me know what changed it for you

If you’re not reading the documentation, this is your time to confess!

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 day ago

    It’s weird that Linux certification requires rote-memorization of commands. The only people who make any effort to memorize commands are newbies and people studding for exams. You will always have access to bash history, man, and --help, even from an offline machine.

    Every command I’ve memorized is simply the natural process of repetition. Is that your experience?

    • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      People are worried about losing skills to AI while all the skills have already been lost to Google and stack exchange 😅

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Mine too. Been tinkering with Linux since I was a lad, sudo apt get / sudo apt update is ingrained into my brain.

      Now, after running openSUSE Tumbleweed, sudo zypper ref / sudo zypper dup

      Still a Linux noob, but I have never loved an operating system more than I have openSUSE. :)

    • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      23 hours ago

      Yes. But also, despite having done it literally thousands of times, I still can’t tell you which way round to put the target and the link name for a softlink on the first go.

      My first guess is always

      ln -s $NAME $TARGET

      No amount of repetition will fix this.

      • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        What about substitution in your mind.

        My way is probably not going to help but it might.

        I see ln -s in my mind as the word link. And the sentence in my head is ‘link THIS HERE’ where ‘this’ is the source and ‘here’ is the target

      • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
        9·
        21 hours ago

        I used to have that problem with ln until I realized it’s essentially the same ordering as cp: source, then destination. The source being the existing file that you’re linking to, and the destination being the link that you’re creating

      • shrugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        20 hours ago

        My trick to remember:

        You can link to a target without giving a name to the link. ln will use the basename of the target file then. You can’t create a link without a target, so target has to go first since it’s not optional. Did it for me