Giving up control bit by bit
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i just give up after a couple of minutes if it isn’t somewhere obvious and then search my whole system with grep lmao.
how wonderful to live in a world where compute is so cheap.
Amateur. I read the source on GitHub to see where it's saving that shit.
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I've started saving useful commands in a note on my desktop.
Great idea
hard time tracking down config files
Usually under ~/.config/<app> or ~/.local/share/<app>
Often also in /etc/
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Can't get the save file from some android games anymore.
️One of these days, they'll add a censorship chip into every consumer electronic.
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For real? Never used Android, but isn’t it built on Linux? It doesn’t use the same path /home/username/Downloads?
It doesn’t use the same path /home/username/Downloads?
Same as what? That isn't a default path for anything in Linux either. It's a convention that browser follows though, on Windows and Mac too.
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I really do wish that more packages on Linux had installation paths clearly noted in a readme.
I've been using Linux daily for over a year now and I still have a hard time tracking down config files and install paths. Its just not one of those tasks I do regularly so I always forget best practices when trying to find stuff. The CLI always gives me the best results but getting the commands right can be tedious.
I've started saving useful commands in a note on my desktop.
Suprised nobody said to use whereis xyz
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just be glad you don't have an iphone. at least on android there are easy ways to remedy this.
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dpkg -L package-nameOr the inverse
dpkg -S /usr/bin/somefileFor apt based distros, obviously.
I just tried this with Samba (so
dpkg -L sambaanddpkg -S samba, and I also tried addinggrep "smb.conf"and running it with sudo) and I was unable to find the share config file.It's located under
/etc/samba/smb.confbut that command was returning a path under my local user. This is on Ubuntu -
Do I really need to remind this is free software made by benevolent developers?
I get it it's infuriating but it's still in some way a gift you were given and seem unhappy with.If you give me a 1000 piece puzzle for free, but without the instructions or a box picture to go off of, you've done a nice thing by gifting me something but have also failed miserably as I'll never fuckin solve that puzzle
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I really do wish that more packages on Linux had installation paths clearly noted in a readme.
I've been using Linux daily for over a year now and I still have a hard time tracking down config files and install paths. Its just not one of those tasks I do regularly so I always forget best practices when trying to find stuff. The CLI always gives me the best results but getting the commands right can be tedious.
I've started saving useful commands in a note on my desktop.
Every time I touch a config file/setting I document it in my notes. I would be lost without it.
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I really do wish that more packages on Linux had installation paths clearly noted in a readme.
I've been using Linux daily for over a year now and I still have a hard time tracking down config files and install paths. Its just not one of those tasks I do regularly so I always forget best practices when trying to find stuff. The CLI always gives me the best results but getting the commands right can be tedious.
I've started saving useful commands in a note on my desktop.
As a long time linux user, I think all programs should have a config gui. (Not all, but you get what I mean)
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I just tried this with Samba (so
dpkg -L sambaanddpkg -S samba, and I also tried addinggrep "smb.conf"and running it with sudo) and I was unable to find the share config file.It's located under
/etc/samba/smb.confbut that command was returning a path under my local user. This is on UbuntuYou might want to look into the locate package (it might be called mlocate) if you can't find a file. It can be helpful.
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For real? Never used Android, but isn’t it built on Linux? It doesn’t use the same path /home/username/Downloads?
It's basically a jvm that runs on the Linux kernel.
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I just tried this with Samba (so
dpkg -L sambaanddpkg -S samba, and I also tried addinggrep "smb.conf"and running it with sudo) and I was unable to find the share config file.It's located under
/etc/samba/smb.confbut that command was returning a path under my local user. This is on Ubuntuwrote on last edited by [email protected]dpkg -Srequires a full path like the example I gave.dpkg -L sambashould work fine. What is the error you got? -
If you give me a 1000 piece puzzle for free, but without the instructions or a box picture to go off of, you've done a nice thing by gifting me something but have also failed miserably as I'll never fuckin solve that puzzle
Terrible analogy honestly.
Feel free to not use this software, nobody will ever force you to use it.This is not software to entertain you. It's a tool that you don't understand how to use and choose to blame the people building it for free.
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Funni, cause the comment below from AstralPath and lightnsfw tells a different story
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Windows is more like, oh that file you saved earlier? Yeah we moved that to OneDrive. You want it back? Sorry didn't pay your OneDrive subscription fee, so you don't actually have that file anymore. Hope it wasn't something irreplaceable like your kid's baby photos or anything lol.
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Linux:
ls
cd directory
ls
cd directory2
ls
cd directory3
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Linux:
ls
cd directory
ls
cd directory2
ls
cd directory3
...Oh boy do I have a
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Unfortunately this also applies to Flatpak software in Linux. That's one area where distros really need to focus on improving usability.
