The flexibility of having a Linux system in your pocket is pretty darn remarkable, even though the most common thing I actually do with it is just leave ping running in the background to catch network problems.
This. It’s just powerful too. My biggest use case was to ssh into my servers as I needed. Not needed often times, but in a bind when I needed to do something, and I’m not by a proper computer it’s become so handy. I’ve since switched to Termius however for this use case though, but the concept is the same.
But also, having access to a Linux terminal opens the door to so much! Need a quicker way to transfer multiple files onto a flash drive? Just load up terminal and run an rsync or cp operation. Need to make a quick code change to a git repo? VIM (with mouse mode for those fake vim users like myself) works very nicely. You can actually run a full blown VSCode server via the terminal and load it up on localhost, and it works just as you’d expect it to work on a normal Linux machine. And that’s the best part of it, the code execution.
The link preview is totally broken for me. So I wanted to shout WHAT DID YOU SWITCH TO, DENVERCODER9??? But in the reply UI I see now the link text, and it’s Termius.
To add to your list, I used to ssh into my Linux box and use screen to play a bit of dwarf fortress remotely. It was great for setting up work orders and other things.
Termux.
The flexibility of having a Linux system in your pocket is pretty darn remarkable, even though the most common thing I actually do with it is just leave
pingrunning in the background to catch network problems.This. It’s just powerful too. My biggest use case was to ssh into my servers as I needed. Not needed often times, but in a bind when I needed to do something, and I’m not by a proper computer it’s become so handy. I’ve since switched to Termius however for this use case though, but the concept is the same.
But also, having access to a Linux terminal opens the door to so much! Need a quicker way to transfer multiple files onto a flash drive? Just load up terminal and run an rsync or cp operation. Need to make a quick code change to a git repo? VIM (with mouse mode for those fake vim users like myself) works very nicely. You can actually run a full blown VSCode server via the terminal and load it up on localhost, and it works just as you’d expect it to work on a normal Linux machine. And that’s the best part of it, the code execution.
The link preview is totally broken for me. So I wanted to shout WHAT DID YOU SWITCH TO, DENVERCODER9??? But in the reply UI I see now the link text, and it’s Termius.
I switched from termux to ConnectBot, fwiw.
Oh oops, added a bad character in front of the link, fixed
To add to your list, I used to ssh into my Linux box and use screen to play a bit of dwarf fortress remotely. It was great for setting up work orders and other things.
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