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"A newbie will likely need to use all of them within the first week of them ever using Linux." And then some people wonder, why the year of the linux desktop s

"A newbie will likely need to use all of them within the first week of them ever using Linux." And then some people wonder, why the year of the linux desktop still has not arrived. But luckily no, unless things went very wrong, a newbie will not have to invoke those commands - and if he indeed has to, he or she will likely just give up anyway. (Btw. I use linux since years and so far only had to use half of the listed commands.)

krylon 4y ago
I concur. I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop (and server) for 20 years, I don't think I ever used blkid or lsblk. fdisk, on the other hand, was a thing in the DOS/Windows world, too, back in the day, and dealing with partitioning is something you are going to do regardless of the OS you are using.
- mbiondi 4y ago
  lsblk is super helpful and I've used it many, many times since I found it about 5 years ago. inxi is a new one for me. Command usage / knowledge depends on what you need and why.
  - krylon 4y ago
    > inxi is a new one for me. For me, too. I was surprised to find it already installed on my system. :)
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > I concur. I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop (and server) for 20 years, I don't think I ever used blkid or lsblk. How do you write disk images (like, if you're installing a new machine and you need to write the installer to a USB drive)? I always use lsblk to find the right device name, then dd to write it.
  - krylon 4y ago
    I use dd, too. But I usually know what device corresponds to the USB drive. If my laptop only has one HDD/SSD, it's /dev/sda, so a USB drive will show up as /dev/sdb. My desktop has two internal SSDs, sda and sdb, so the USB drive is going to be sdc.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    > (like, if you're installing a new machine and you need to write the installer to a USB drive I just make sure I point at the right device letter. For all it worth in the last 10 years I never need to bother with it, because in the worst case I write the installer in Windows environment and when I install it on the machine (be it a hardware or a virtual machine) it doesn't matter.
- hnlmorg 4y ago
  The DOS fdisk was a very different beast to its Linux/UNIX counterpart.

krylon 4y ago

I concur. I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop (and server) for 20 years, I don't think I ever used blkid or lsblk. fdisk, on the other hand, was a thing in the DOS/Windows world, too, back in the day, and dealing with partitioning is something you are going to do regardless of the OS you are using.

mbiondi 4y ago
lsblk is super helpful and I've used it many, many times since I found it about 5 years ago. inxi is a new one for me. Command usage / knowledge depends on what you need and why.
- krylon 4y ago
  > inxi is a new one for me. For me, too. I was surprised to find it already installed on my system. :)
yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> I concur. I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop (and server) for 20 years, I don't think I ever used blkid or lsblk. How do you write disk images (like, if you're installing a new machine and you need to write the installer to a USB drive)? I always use lsblk to find the right device name, then dd to write it.
- krylon 4y ago
  I use dd, too. But I usually know what device corresponds to the USB drive. If my laptop only has one HDD/SSD, it's /dev/sda, so a USB drive will show up as /dev/sdb. My desktop has two internal SSDs, sda and sdb, so the USB drive is going to be sdc.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > (like, if you're installing a new machine and you need to write the installer to a USB drive I just make sure I point at the right device letter. For all it worth in the last 10 years I never need to bother with it, because in the worst case I write the installer in Windows environment and when I install it on the machine (be it a hardware or a virtual machine) it doesn't matter.
hnlmorg 4y ago
The DOS fdisk was a very different beast to its Linux/UNIX counterpart.