Ubuntu Linux -how do I check drives ?

debitcardmayhem

sudo fdisk -l , or use gparted if gui is your thing

System

esuhl wrote: »

Rubbish -- there are so many things that are easier to do in a command prompt. A lot of GNU/Linux apps don't even have a GUI.

What the OP wanted to do isn't quicker in CLI. It is three mouse clicks in most distros and you get a nice graphical display to look at instead of information that doesn't even align with the column headers. Create a shortcut to the disks application on the taskbar and it is a single click. Whilst you're still typing in a command and trying to remember what the arguments you need to use with it are I'm already looking at the information I want.

My last job was at a company that wrote bespoke software and for Linux. I spent a year in an environment when I sat there waiting for someone far more au fait with Linux take far longer to do something than I did using GUI tools on the same distro.

I actually watched with some amusement one of the guys trying to set up internet connection sharing via CLI, something which is three, maybe four mouse clicks in Network Manager. He gave up. I watched another guy edit a SQL database in CLI and it was just like watching someone pull teeth. The number of times I witnessed people having to re-enter commands because they'd forget that there was a capital letter involved or they'd make a spelling mistake etc.

esuhl

Tarambor wrote: »

What the OP wanted to do isn't quicker in CLI.

What's that got to do with anything? You said that, "Pretty much everything is easier and quicker to do in a GUI".

That's simply wrong.

DCFC79

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Perhaps mint or zorin, but to be honest learning some command line stuff and be prepared for a learning curve. However I wouldn't suggest Windows for a novice either even tablets/phones have a getting used to them period. Perhaps I was hasty in saying fedora not for the novice , any "new to you" tech has to be learnt.

Thanks, have used Linux for a few hours just to see what it was like, have a copy of Fedora and Mint somewhere just haven't tried them again due to time.

System

DCFC79 wrote: »

Thanks, have used Linux for a few hours just to see what it was like, have a copy of Fedora and Mint somewhere just haven't tried them again due to time.

When trying it out try to avoid the biggest obstacle which makes things harder for a lot of people which is to stop thinking about how you'd do something in Windows. Whilst it may look similar in many respects it isn't and does things quite differently. When I first started many years ago I got on a whole lot faster when I stopped doing that.

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esuhl wrote: »

What's that got to do with anything? You said that, "Pretty much everything is easier and quicker to do in a GUI".

That's simply wrong.

Well there's one thing that is quicker to do in CLI and that is put people off Linux by making them think that everything is better done in CLI like a third of a century of progress in personal desktop computing hasn't happened.

debitcardmayhem

Tarambor wrote: »

Well there's one thing that is quicker to do in CLI and that is put people off Linux by making them think that everything is better done in CLI like a third of a century of progress in personal desktop computing hasn't happened.

That maybe, but not venturing outside of the hand holding GUI, doesn't teach much either. I suppose it's horses for courses.

esuhl

Tarambor wrote: »

Well there's one thing that is quicker to do in CLI and that is put people off Linux by making them think that everything is better done in CLI like a third of a century of progress in personal desktop computing hasn't happened.

The quickest thing to put someone off Linux is by giving silly advice suggesting that they should avoid using the CLI! Why make life hard for yourself by refusing to type a simple command?

It's like saying that books are obsolete, what with several decades of progress with "moving pictures".

And why keep changing your argument just so you can find some way to criticise Linux? It's completely irrelevant to the OP's question. If you can't learn how to use Linux, stick with Windows.