Well… i mean you could just run as root just like you would as as an admin user on windows. But that violates basic security principles.

Also, you gave up because you couldnt figure how to display hidden files?.. its litterally a setting in the file explorer program just like windows. Ctrl±H is a common shortcut to toggle it. Or in the terminal, the command is ‘ls -a’

Depending what your doing with the system, you shouldnt ever need to touch the terminal.

But without the terminal, you will struggle to have total control of the system and will be as limited as windows.

How do you expect to do anything in the terminal if you’re not typing the right commands? Things tend to not work when you do them wrong…

I struggled with terminal blocking me from doing anything unless I run right commands

Lmao are you serious? Did you struggle with it not opening the right applications unless you click the right icons as well?

Yeah Lemmy is very Linux oriented :). Though I do agree Linux is harder to get into but that’s not because GNU/Linux is difficult, it’s because we were so much accustomed to how Windows work !

I don’t really remember because it has been ages, but I’m sure my first steps with Windows 98 where awful and not easy and intuitive at all !

Linux has a lot of issues so does Windows (and MacOS) and learning a whole new paradigm of a working system takes time and some investement, but after you get the basic gists, Linux gives you total control of everything ! (Like to see hidden directories is like Windows, just a check box to show hidden files :) don’t need a CLI for that)

You rarely need the use of the Terminal when on easier distributions like PopOS or Ubuntu (while I wouldn’t suggest the later), However if you tried more difficult distribution first (like arch and derivatives), CLI is mandatory !

Not saying YOU should switch, do whatever makes you happy, more productive and vibes with your current needs/feeling…

However, If you feel the need to switch the Linux community will always welcome you :) Keep in mind, there are good people and a**holes everywhere !

Glad you solved your issue with massgrave, which is a great tool :) ! Have fun with your system !

Edit: Sorry for the off topic XD discussion got a bit heated up haha ! I’m kinda surprised it didn’t got deleted !

ls to list files
ls -a to list all files (including hidden)
ls -l to list files with their attributes
ls -la to list all files with their attributes

You can add a path after the command and parameters if you want to look in a folder you’re not in.

Don’t hate the OS for a skill issue, learn the basics, it’s way more efficient and you can even bring some of it back to Windows in PowerShell.

Linux is way easier to use once you break up with Windows. Hell, you can pretty much bump around in just the desktop environment if you really wanted - especially in something like Ubuntu where there are GUI applications for like everything.

They say you have total control over it

You do.

yet I struggled with terminal blocking me from doing anything unless I run right commands

I mean, would you prefer the terminal simply guess at what you’re trying to do and execute random commands?

Looking for hidden files and all.

[xanza@dev ~]$ ll
total 76
drwxr-sr-x   11 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 15 02:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          4096 Mar 10 22:16 ../
-rw-------    1 xanza    xanza         8677 Mar 15 02:05 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--    1 xanza    xanza          887 Mar 13 19:26 .bashrc
drwxr-sr-x    5 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 12 22:37 .cache/
-rw-r--r--    1 xanza    xanza          484 Mar 15 01:38 .caddy
drwxr-sr-x    9 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 12 22:32 .config/
drwx--S---    3 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 11 21:23 .docker/
-rw-r--r--    1 xanza    xanza           52 Mar 10 23:13 .gitconfig
drwxr-sr-x    3 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 10 23:05 .go/
drwxr-sr-x    6 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 12 18:47 .local/
-rw-r--r--    1 xanza    xanza           49 Mar 10 23:41 .profile
drwxr-sr-x    2 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 10 22:38 .sockets/
drwxr-sr-x    2 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 10 22:27 .ssh/
drwxr-sr-x    3 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 15 01:20 .vim/
drwxr-sr-x    4 xanza    xanza         4096 Mar 10 23:08 go/
-rw-r--r--    1 xanza    xanza          267 Mar 12 18:31 justfile

Hidden files in *nix are dotfiles; files which are literally hidden from view because they’re appended with a ..