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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you push up, up, Ctrl-A right right right, you don't have to sit there for 5 seconds and wait for the machine to decide it feels like fulfilling your request and showing you where the cursor is now so you can get on with what you were doing.

If you're not on flaky wireless networks a lot it might not be a huge difference, but from my experience today it was a big difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ctrl-a! love learning new things

Thanks for sharing :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Haha no problem. Yeah, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-K, and Ctrl-right/left are godsends for mucking around in the terminal, in case there were others of those you didn't know. Probably there are lots more but those are the ones I use all the time.