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title: "Knowledge Base"
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# Linux Knowledgebase
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This is a list of quickstart guides for Linux programs, designed to get the user up and running as fast as possible.
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# Style
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1. Minimal theory, maximum practical.
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2. The statements should go in order of how likely they are to be used: if `git add` has to be used by everyone, then it should go first.
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3. Documents should be similar to well-documented scripts.
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4. No explanations for the program. This isn't an introduction or advert, it's a guide for someone who already wants to use a program but doesn't know how.
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5. It's better explain how to set something up three times than to link or reference a setup.
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6. If general knowledge must be presumed, it should be placed into a file named 'basics'.
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### Example
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```
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How to see which websites you're actively accessing:
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> ss -tr dst :443
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```
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# What's wrong with everything else?
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## Man pages
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- Orders items by the alphabet rather than by relevance.
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- Often presumes you know everything except that one program.
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- Often written in the 80's, and it shows.
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- Zero respect for your time.
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## curl cheat.sh/
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- Doesn't have the programs I like.
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- Too short to get you started on many programs.
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- Poor understanding of priority (`git stash` is covered before `git commit`).
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# Current State
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This started as a few personal notes, and will probably continue to look like that for some time.
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It's a bit of a mess.
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Systemd is taken as a default.
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Non-systemd commands we relegate to their respective distros, e.g. runit for Void Linux.
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