! A screenshot of a Linux terminal showing some packages being installed. One of the package is named “fribidi”. This name rhymes with something that evokes visceral horrors beyond comprehension.
An image of a Vietnam war soldier having flashbacks is superimposed !<
find
is also just a fucking mess in terms of UX. The fact that the ordering of positional and optional arguments are so strongly tied to each other has always driven me fucking bonkers. Nowadays, I installfd
everywhere I can and tell people to switch to it and never look back.locate
is nice and all, but I always forget to update the db and I don’t want it populating in the background.tar
doesn’t bug me as much, provided you use unix or GNU style options.tar xvf foo.tar
is just icky and less readable thantar -xvf foo.tar
. I will happily concede that it’s not very ergonomic though. I used to rely on things likedtrx
(short for Do The Right eXtraction) because it was such a pain to remember the options fortar
/unrar
/unzip
/7z
.You reminded me of
fd
. Thank you!