Greetings

Welcome!

My goal here is to present stuff that has enabled me to enjoy the computer experience far more than just using the computer as a tool.

But first...

My wife and I serve this little cutie:

Open new windows from the Applications menu, including this one.

If the new window does not show, check behind another window.

Click and drag windows with the titlebars.

Top right corner to close.

Bottom right corner to resize.

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List of subjects

01 Introduction
02 BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER
03 BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER
04 BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER
05 BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER
06 BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER

01 Introduction

I use Linux based distros only, setup as read-only and loaded into ram.

My daily driver is PorteuX, a Porteus fork on it's own partition. The startup only loads minimum software modules to achieve basic
functionality. All other modules can be loaded on demand. I also utilise Appimages and other "portable standalone" software.

On their own partitions are MX, Puppy Slacko and TinyCore. PorteuX, Puppy Slacko and TinyCore are modular systems while MX relies on one file.

Grub handles all OS booting. It came with MX. Once I got a handle on it, changing the grub.cfg file became the easiest way for me to control the boot process. There are also Plop and Grub File Manager on the 1 GiB boot partition. Coupled with the UEFI menu, enabling multi-boot from a variety of sources is easy.

02 - BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER

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Bash, ash or sh is included in every OS I use. Scripts enable tremendous functionality.

Shortcut and context menu actions make it easy.

After seeing the coolness factor of text art on the internet, I made a launcher for any action I needed.

Programs, scripts, aliases and shortcuts to the file system
are shown as text art at the prompt, enabling a double click to copy
then paste.

Entering 000 at the promp gives this layout:

I have over 800 entries accessible from this layout. Every 3
digit number and nearly every contiguous linear word is an alias. Just
enter directly or copy-paste.

I used a basic text editor and Asciiflow @ "https://asciiflow.com/#/".
Asciflow is very cool and also works great when saved locally as a 
complete web page. I also use it for electrical schematics and 
mechanical diagrams.

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Enter 011 from the top left brings up the GENERAL category, like this:

Category headers at top, multiple sub-headings in each
category and the contiguous linear word as an alias, to enable double
click copy.

On the left indent is the next level up, like a back button.

The slashes, dashes and carets are my way to separate items. There is likely a better way.

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The next concept after categories is boxes. It is more freeform with less structure.

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This is just an old school outline of the root file system.

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Here is an easier to follow outline.

Notice that I had to change the spelling of names so the aliases would not conflict.

That about does it for my super duper BASH ALIAS MEGA LAUNCHER. I probably made some mistakes. Hope you can do it better.

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