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> Maybe your job this weekend should be to get a little exercise before writing on the internet?

Maybe you should learn some manners and stop posting wild assumptions about physique of your peers.

> It's a nice little summary of cool tools. "Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure".

It's barely a summary. A summary requires some details about the points being raised; albeit a briefly phrased. That site was more akin to a bullet-pointed list.

The descriptions are lacklustre, the screenshots are useless for all bar the ncurses programs, and including "just too useful to miss" programs like vi and curl but with zero detail nor examples about how to use them is absolutely worthless. Anyone who's every used a Linux / UNIX command line -even briefly- would already know that vi and curl exists - what they might not know is how to use it. And that's where articles like this should focus if they're wanting to incorporate commonly known commands along with obscure ones. Otherwise you're trying to appeal to everyone yet failing to please anyone.




Hey man, the guy put together a nice little list of tools, nothing more nothing less.


> little list of tools, nothing more nothing less.

Which was my point. :P




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