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Just moved to linux. Went with elementaryOS. Already ran into a little issue with eclipse which is now fixed. For those of you who use linux, what distro do you use, is there any special commands that really come in handy?

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    Ls ... will list the current directory
    Cd change directory
    Sudo... the super power command will give you root (administrator ) privellages
    Good luck with linux...its an interesting world
    I like ubuntu.. mint and debian ..
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    The package manager to install software with console commands is really useful.

    "apt search gimp" to search for software (in this example gimp)

    "sudo apt-get install gimp" to install software
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    A fellow elementary OS user here! Have been using it for about two years now :)
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    oh and yeah sometimes elementarys ram doesn't clean itself so I use a little script for that. I'll try to find it tomorrow! It has saved my ass many times :P
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    @linuxxx Yeah, the issue with linux was actually crashing my laptop and rebooting it. Which I found really weird. I expected this on windows not on linux, but I'm sure I'll eventually get a hand of it.
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    @mirnapls Crashing as in freezing?
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    Comenting because i want that script too @linuxxx
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    Archlinux at home, Fedora at work
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    I use fedora and it has some predefined alias like for ls -a ls -l and I started to create my own like

    rdir -> rm -rf

    The only issues I've had are Wayland's fault, with HDMI output and JetBrains IDEs, and that dotnet core has still no support for libicu57, besides that everything cool
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    Sudo bash ;)
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    I use Fedora on my laptop, Ubuntu server, and an awful lot of Amazon's distro. The best tool I use on a regular basis is the Silver Searcher, available on all distros. Much easier to use than grep.
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    Using KDE neon 5.9.1
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    @DarthDev you can also "sudo apt install #{program}" it has beautiful colouuurs
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    I use linux mint xfce on my laptop. Very light os , i run 3 ide's at a time with no performance issues . Runs smooth as butter.
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    I installed antergos with KDE yesterday and I'm liking it so far.
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    I always find myself using "sudo rm - rf /" whenever I get bored. But you should try it without root access first, the results are very different.
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    @linuxxx commenting for script! even my elementaryos freezes randomly!
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    @randomnumber @DRHAX34 @mirnapls Oo uhm you know fuck it if I get time today I'll put it in a public repo (it's a very simple thingy though)!
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    @randomnumber @DRHAX34 @mirnapls
    Alright fuck that repo, I stripped the (only 4-5 lines but whatever xD) script down a little but here's the full thing:
    free;
    echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------";
    sync; echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    free;

    If you'd want it without all the echo's etc, just run this part (in a cron job maybe?):
    sync; echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
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