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useradd - I just wanted to give a friend my notebook for a python lecture and thought I could just add him as a new user. Apparently not by default.
Seems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root user
You can just manually edit /etc/passwd
Nano (or pico). I had to use vi one time 😭
Which distro doesn't ship nano? I've only ever seen this in embedded or docker contexts.
Condolences for your vile experiences, though.
less, I don't remember what distro it was, but there wasn't less. There was more though.
Sometimes, more is less.
But when will "then" be "now"?
Tuesday.
bash and zsh shell history suggest box aka hstr. A bash history which is sorted by the times you use a command and not in a chronological order. Sooooooo good 😉
The first couple commands I run after install:
$ sudo apt install vim
$ sudo apt autopurge libreoffice*
I actually like Libre office very much, since it's a good open source office software.
tmux, htop, vim
I was surprised that gnome ships with comes with it in default.
Let's try the other way around: what default apps are pre installed that really don't need or should not be?
I get that most distros try to give a good out of the box desktop for the average user, while also saving time for who is (trying to) providing services or building machines to sell but it can get annoying booting into a fresh install, take a look at the defaults and go "nah, that's going away, and that, that and the other".
I'm not advocating for LFS but sometimes I wish we could get an option to install just what is necessary to make the hardware run and a chosen desktop or window manager and from there install whatever we may need.
Sounds like Arch.
KDE shipped with so much useless stuff.
I think most people (including myself) prefer a minimal desktop by default, and then proceed to install only the software they need. Nevertheless, it always surprises me when I log in to a system that doesn't have vim.
For almost all users, especially beginners, nano is just simpler faster and better. A lot of distributions are bundling it, and I am finding indeed systems without vim at all.
netstat curl and git
netstat is mostly deprecated and superseded by the ss command.
Wait? ss? why haven't I heard of this?
Maybe you also haven't heard about the ip command which replaces various commands such as ifconfig (replaced by ip a).