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Tips/tricks for beginners
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This 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!"
sl is the single best utility, hands down
I just think that these new, fancy applications are more user-friendly, because they are often easier to use, are faster and often have things like colored output. Sure, the GNU coreutils are old and reliable, and can be found on almost every system, making them great for scripts, but for normal, interactive CLI usage I prefer the modern alternatives.
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.