this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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I use CLI in Windows all day long, but I don't expect normies to have to learn it.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

bind 'set completion-ignore-case on'

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

bInD 'sEt CoMpLeTiOn-IgNoRe-CaSe On'

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Solutions? No thanks, just a circlejerk here

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Case insensitivity goes brrr

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

or just use fish shell

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's Linux. You're supposed to name your user data folders
~/doc
~/dsk
~/dwn
~/mus
~/pic
~/vid

or even better, just use /tmp as your download folder.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I keep half my life in that downloads folder. It is not going anywhere near /tmp.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This is the best and funniest comment I’ve read all week.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also setup custom dirs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

All of mine (except Desktop) point to "$HOME/downloads"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im halfway to grey beard at this point but didn't know this. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's because modern desktops (looking at you, Gnome) have decided that discoverability isn't worth their time. They want empty, pretty interfaces with minimal functionality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I use gnome and love it so not sure how that at all even relates here.

It's completely irrelevant to your de.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You've downloaded half your life from the internet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My whole drive is half downloads folder and half OS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You don't keep stuff in /dev/null?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

dl, sh, src, var, old, pic, app, books

that's mine. No bin yet - it's a new installation with a home_old.tar.zst file for the old.

EDIT: Of course I do have a Downloads directory, I've just forgot to alias it to something more pleasant yet.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~/Documents showing up in my tab completion

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Create a symlink if that behaviour bothers you

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/downloads

Bonus for solving another common point of confusion with ~/Downloads:

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/Download
ln -s ~/Downloads ~/download
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

symlinks are sexy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Won't this be annoying because you'll suddenly have 4 entries for the same thing when you ls?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

It doesn't. I don't use Linux anymore and was far from a 'noob'. I got over the issue after the first time and used a highly personally configured LF, aliases, and ZSH auto-suggest mostly anyway. -Appreciate the tips others might benefit from though. -Thanks!

[–] TxzK 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

I actually have it installed on Windows, but never got around to configuring (outside of Yazi for which I have bookmarks for) or using it. I also hesitated to get into it because I want to know the directory structure well so it's not a handicap. -It is popular AF though. Probably not something for normies though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OP again with the pro move of posting their Linux issues on linuxsucks to bait Lemmy into suggesting fixes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never heard of zsh and oh-my-zsh ? Skill issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

https://ohmyz.sh/ This is the way, the fuzzy corrects alone are worth it. Themes, git metadata, plugins and seamless onboarding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
shopt -s cdspell
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I veto pull requests that have upper case directory or file names.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago