Yeah, good luck with that. There’s the famous case of Munich (I think it was Munich?) moving their governmental workers from Windows to Linux. After a few years they went back. Unfortunately the average working enduser is still not ready to just use Linux. Especially not if its a Word/Excel/PowerPoint type of job.
I’m specifically interested in seeing how the transition from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice goes. My boss has been pondering the possibility of migrating us from Word and Excel to Writer and Calc. My concern, as someone who exclusively uses LibreOffice at home, is those edge-cases where another entity sends us a document that has some weird behavior that might not be properly replicated in LibreOffice. I don’t know much about the German government’s typical document practices, but I think this will be a good case study on the viability of LibreOffice in a more serious production environment.
I love the smiling chameleon (I always thought of it as a female chameleon named “Susie”, this is before I learned the actual pronunciation), I hope they don’t replace it with some lame reblanding.
It would be a signal that MS is throwing in the towel as far as Windows as a separate OS. However, I suspect they already have some kind of Windows compatibility layer of their own that they’ve been working on. It would probably have some sort of limited source availability, as opposed to a full open source FOSS licence. If that is the case, it could actually undermine WINE. If MS could save face somehow and fully embrace Linux, they might do it, but I doubt it will happen. Who knows.
But that’s why I give both the relative and direct link.
Lemmy hasn’t come up with a good implementation for that issue. They should.
There’s a third party thing that works well for Lemmy instances but I haven’t gotten in the habit of using it. There’s no good mobile plug in for it either so I doubt it will catch on.
It really should be implemented in the core of both Lemmy and Kbin to not need to think about direct vs relative links in the vast majority of cases. And it shouldn’t feel like a hassle when you want to. This is both possible and attainable, but neither projects’ devs are interested in implementing it for various reasons.
I’m not going to contribute to either project because I don’t particularly like what Kbin is trying to be (this is just a personal preference and interest thing) and I don’t particularly like how the Lemmy devs are approaching the architecture and development of Lemmy on a technical basis.
There’s going to be a replacement for the core of lemmy that will just function better and make front end UIs way easier to build and maintain. I’m excited to see it take shape.
I don’t do much with bash since I primarily do windows admin, but I run into the same issue with powershell.
I have a document in VSCode that I store frequently used commands and any kind of notation/documentation I need to take advantage of it in the future. It’s a lot of one or two liners for stuff I know I’m going to forget, like the once a month hyperv cluster update command 😂.
Similarly I’ve added functions to the powershell local and global profiles on my computer/group policy. (contextually similar to bashrc, bash_profile, that load when launching interactive or non interactive shells, as well as user context) That way i can easily execute repeptive commands without having to think!
Basically, I think we all have the same problem and we’ve forgotten more than we know lol
I usually lean on fish autocomplete to remember things for me. Should I write stuff down? Yes. But I’m lazy, so this method is okay. Until I’m on a different machine and end up completely lost.
I’m using Fish, rather than Bash, and it has type-ahead suggestions, which help a lot.
So, I’ll type rsync and then it’ll show inline that I typed rsync -ah --info=progress2 a long time ago. And then I’ll be like, oh wow, this past-me-guy was very smart, I’ll be having the same.
Obviously, this is an imperfect system. If you run another rsync command without these flags, it won’t directly show these flags next time, because it’s not the most recent entry in history.
But it’s rare that I know I’ll want to run a command again in a few months, so it’s still really helpful.
And of course, there is nothing stopping me from creating aliases and scripts as well.
I use nushell, same thing with the suggestions. With nushell, you can also press up/down to traverse through the command history for commands starting with what you typed. For example, you could type ls and press up a bunch to go through ls | where size > 2kb, ls | where type == ‘directory’, etc (if you’ve executed those before).
Same with fish. It actually shows anything if you just put in one part of the command, so you don’t need to specify the exact starting command (in case you might not remember).
Example (which I use regularly):
install, then up (and up and up, and so on), and I see everything I’ve ever used that has install somewhere in it.
So I’ll get results ranging from sudo apt install foo to sudo nala install foo to flatpak install foo.
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