Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, I’d love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. 😅 Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!
The amount of tutorials out there is overwhelming. Hopefully 🙏 you guys point me in the right direction.
Edit: That is a lot of great information. I really appreciate you guys taking your time to share your experience/advice.
That comment is awesome! Just want to add some things.
There are some better alternatives for the commands you listed. For example fd for
findand ripgrep forgrep.There’s a command line alternative for QDirStat called
ncdu(https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu), as well as a (in my opinion) better graphical application called Filelight.First, I don’t disagree with that, but I’m always conflicted. Like, eza is better than ls. Atuin is magic history search. btop/fish/helix etc. etc. etc. But for just getting started I almost want to discourage finding alternative tools. But I also don’t lol.
Also, I am 99.9% certain this exchange is how most distros get started. “We can do a more sensible set of defaults!”
There are always exotic alternative commands, but those were the standards.
Always learn the standard commands.
But
findis sloooow.fdis so much faster, because it’s written in Rust and optimized for performance.But you can always count on find being there on any unix system. Fancy exotic commands may have nicer speeds or options, but they’ll only be there on your machine. And one day you’ll be on another, and you’ll be lost.