My impression
tldr/cheat: Explains most popular arguments using as little words as possible
man: Explains the entire command using a more technical tone
info: Explains the entire command in slightly more informal tone. Can feel wordier as a result, but on the flipside it connects alternative/related commands in a logical way

Great question. Had to think about it and I’d say for me personally, poor implementation of color pickers is the biggest frustration.

As a technical user, I have no qualms w/ editing the default selection if it’s hard to read due to colors, but I get frustrated with poor color picker implementation. For example, color swaths that don’t have named descriptions when you hover over them. Even/especially the standard ROYGBIV colors on the first page of a color picker, but also to a lesser degree, descriptive hex codes on more nuanced online color pickers. I can’t tell the difference and don’t feel like hearing someone ask why I made the bold choice of making the sky pink.

Another issue is something like KDE’s Konsole has a color picker that doesn’t have clear names/examples for which aspect of the terminal is being changed, so when I wanted to change the bash custom prompt color to improve readability, I had to edit 5-6 different options, and use trial and error to fix the color.

Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it’s always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don’t make things definitive. It’s still a bunch of random colors that I can’t identify lol

Hmmmm. Maybe this is why Debian pushed a curl update today even though it was also upgraded in 12.2 four days ago

That my solution. I have a ‘Sync’ folder on every device’s Home folder, and then I use some aliases to determine whether to grab the bash_aliases file or replace it:

• alias dba=‘diff -s ~/.bash_aliases ~/Sync/.bash_aliases’ # compare files
• alias s2ba=‘cp ~/Sync/.bash_aliases ~/’ # Push from Sync folder to current bash aliases
• alias ba2s=‘cp ~/.bash_aliases ~/Sync/’ # Push from current bash aliases to Sync folder

By far, the diff alias is the most used. It allows for a quick check on what is different between files w/o having to open them up

My uneducated guess is that Endless OS pays manufacturers to have their OS installed as it has what appears to be privacy-conscious telemetry. It won’t be anywhere close to what Microsoft/Apple, but in the Linux telemetry world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and so it’ll still have valuable data.

Some of the areas that are unlike most other distros I’ve come across:

• Their website for Endless OS does a lot of tracking and has a policy that is more ‘business-orientated’ than many distros
• Privacy policy for the OS is not available online, only when downloading program
• They use dark patterns to have the default for telemetry as ‘opt-in’ which might be the opposite for FOSS IIRC
• Complete list of things tracked here

To me, it’s akin to the free third party apps that come packaged with many Android mobile devices. Less intrusive since it’s anonymized, but also feels more intrusive because it’s the entire OS being monitored. I believe I came across a headline that Fedora is attempting to use the same tracking software in the link above

This review shares a more judgmental view of their practices

This article has a more positive spin

Just updated, thanks for sharing!

I switched to Kate eventually myself. Using the KDE defaults where possible to reduce size encouraged me to do it

Ran nala after seeing this post and got a libc update on Debian myself

Thanks for the heads up

Some random ones I created over the last week or so:

alias clipboard=‘xclip -selection clipboard’ # Allows me to pipe output directly to my keyboard. good for pwd for example.

Function allows me to get tldr and cheat responses to commands quickly
function cht() {
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

Easy calculator so that I can do math w/o launching a specific app
function calc()
echo “scale=3; $@” bc

Gonna steal/repurpose the shutdown one, use the “sudo docker” = “docker” one and also the grub one. Good lord @ all the configs you edit lol.

ahhh a pormanteau lol, I like it

The best alliases are little inside jokes that are easy to remember imo

Another wttr user 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

More info. Got really big during the thick of covid.

I appreciate the focus on verbosity. I should probably set more of my defaults to follow the same thought process 🤔

same

Care to elaborate?

For me, it once caused an issue once when I thought I was deleting files to make space for /boot/efi/ being at capacity (dual booting issues at the time) when in actuality I was just moving files to an impromptu trash can created on /boot/efi (so the lack of space remained the same lol), but on numerous occasions, it has actually saved my ass and allowed me to retrieve documents that I realized I needed to look at again.

The only other quirk is it straight up ignores all options, so I’ve tried to delete interactively (rm -i) and then had to use trash-list to view the deleted files

Good to see someone else using trash & bat. Kudos for the clean alias file w/ commented headers too! I just started doing it recently and it makes edits/additions so much easier