Lol; I’ve done this too. Thankfully not to anything important.

Lxqt, with pcmanfm’s desktop ability turned off. I use the terminal for my file management anyway

I usually have several terminal tabs and web browser tabs open plus a tmux session. Neovim for coding and writing, feh and mpv for viewing media, mpd, supysonic, and minidlna for streaming and playing music.

An immutable distro would be a good choice. They are distros designed to be more resilient against failure. For a gamer, bazzite is a solid choice; otherwise, silverblue.

Check out gold warden – I will install it also. It’s a general improvement on the official bitwarden desktop application.

That’s not true though. A browser running in a Linux desktop shows ads just like any other OS, and ad blocker browser extensions are platform agnostic.

That looks super frustrating.

Very nice; I will use this. Thanks!

Here’s the code:

#!/bin/bash
cmd=$@
if echo $cmd | grep '/$'
then
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} $cmd{}
else
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} $cmd {}
fi

Usage is like:

ls *zip | iter shasum

or

ls *zip | iter shasum ../zipfile_archive/

The second one would get the shasum of zip files that have the same name as ones in the cwd

This assumes, of course, that the input files have sane names, ie, no spaces, etc

Great minds, lol. I have almost the exact same command set up as a little script. Mine has an extra modification for my use case, and I named mine iter, but foreach is a good name for it too.

tmsu is pretty cool - it creates a little db and uses that to track tags on your files without ever touching them. It also has it’s own little tag based filesystem.

Mine ravencoin instead.

Some other commands you might like:

Ctrl+c

Ctrl+z

Bg

Jobs

Ctrl+u

Ctrl+w

Ctrl+l

Thunderbird, and probably betterbird, is too bloated for my taste.

Lubuntu

My first foray into unix-likes was oprnbsd with fluxbox. I eventually moved to openbox. Lubuntu with lxqt gives a nice simple openbox experience with a menu and stuff. I customize it to have openbox present the mouse menu instead of the whole pcmanfm desktop thing.

I’ve been using Linux for a couple decades now – I use Windows at work and came to like bing desktop; it’s unexpectedly nice.

There’s always Ctrl+R

It could be a music server with mpd – then you could configure it to stream over http to other devices. Or you could configure it as a client for a music server you keep somewhere else.

Just ext4 on my Linux things; I got scared away from btrfs because of some file loss horror stories