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Adventures in Linux
Jun. 16th, 2023 09:37 pmThe conclusion I have come to from my recent adventure in Linux is that I need to spend more time using Terminal for my daily tasks of just navigating the computer (and things I would normally use System Monitor for) to accustom myself to interacting with it.
Because I have never felt moved to work out getting the "turn off the middle mouse button" sequence I stole from the internet to run upon startup, which means I've been retyping it in Terminal every time I restart the computer for the last few years-- ever since the Linux update that gave me the fake middle mouse button in the first place. (It took me a while to figure out that was what happened; all I knew was that suddenly my mouse was behaving very oddly.)
Gradually all that retyping it meant I memorized it, and then started to understand it as I started thinking more about what each bit did. It's a very short sequence-- a total of four commands, some of which aren't actually necessary after the first few times you've run it (were I to set it to run on startup it would be one command)-- which made it easier to start working it out... and also meant that I know it well enough that I could modify it with a kludge when other bits of my mouse stopped working. (I am cautiously optimistic that the latest software update has rendered my kludge unnecessary, which is good, because it's actually quite inconvenient not having a right mouse button.)
From this I have concluded that what I actually need to start getting a handle on the inner workings of my computer is to practice using Terminal for things. Not practice with exercises, but practice with things I am actually trying to do.
Because I have never felt moved to work out getting the "turn off the middle mouse button" sequence I stole from the internet to run upon startup, which means I've been retyping it in Terminal every time I restart the computer for the last few years-- ever since the Linux update that gave me the fake middle mouse button in the first place. (It took me a while to figure out that was what happened; all I knew was that suddenly my mouse was behaving very oddly.)
Gradually all that retyping it meant I memorized it, and then started to understand it as I started thinking more about what each bit did. It's a very short sequence-- a total of four commands, some of which aren't actually necessary after the first few times you've run it (were I to set it to run on startup it would be one command)-- which made it easier to start working it out... and also meant that I know it well enough that I could modify it with a kludge when other bits of my mouse stopped working. (I am cautiously optimistic that the latest software update has rendered my kludge unnecessary, which is good, because it's actually quite inconvenient not having a right mouse button.)
From this I have concluded that what I actually need to start getting a handle on the inner workings of my computer is to practice using Terminal for things. Not practice with exercises, but practice with things I am actually trying to do.
