I’m a Windows user of all life. But I love Linux. And these last two years after so many time I started learning it in deep . But one thing is bugging me is that I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words… imagine commands… Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I’m struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are … Different. What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ? My guess is that A LOT of people happens the same. And it’s one of the reasons Linux has such a slow adption . Because is excellent and full of capabilities.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      2·
      3 days ago

      What does Fish that Bash does not, specifically to help the person remembering the program names and options??

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        It automatically suggests commands, you’ve run before, if you start typing the first letters, like so:

        You can also press the Up-Arrow at any point to show other commands from your history which contain the text that you just typed.

        So, it is similar to Ctrl+R in Bash, but easier to use and you don’t have to actively think about it.

        • AdaA
          3·
          3 days ago

          And, if you can’t remember the options for commands, fish will offer you suggestions. So, if you type ls - and press tab, fish will give you a list of all of the valid switches and a brief description.