Sorry if this is not the right community to ask this, but I just wondered this today.
Users often think of Linux as being more complicated to use than something like Windows or macOS, but I’m sure there are plenty of things made easier in Linux than the other two more common consumer OSes.
What are some that come to mind for you?
The big one for me is
grep/ripgrep. I’m a dev, so there are often times I need to search the contents of files to figure out where something obscure is mentioned. This is also possible on Windows, but as with most things on Windows, it’s slow.The second mention-worthy thing is, oftentimes in conjunction with
grep, is piping! It’s so enjoyable for me to find the files/content, pipe it to anything (sometimes throughxargsand/ortee), so that I can replace the text en-masse withsed, remove all junk files that match a certain parameter withrm, and generally automatically act upon something that I don’t have to manually look for.Although I’m a dev mainly on Windows, I’ve installed WSL as a compromise, and quite often find myself using its bash to perform tasks like the ones mentioned above.