Re:Typing Speed Test, but for Developers
by LtWorf on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:26PM
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apt-get is kinda old, "apt" is the new thing. It unifies some commands like apt-get, apt-cache, and probably something else but those are the only 2 I use :D
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Re:Typing Speed Test, but for Developers
by hronecviktor on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:20PM
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apt-get / apt-cache is one of those things that I simply cannot get out of my muscle memory. It's probably an alias under the hood by now, but I hope they never get rid of it.
Ofc stuff that is actually deprecated is a different story.
When I see some kind of tutorial or whatever from 2025 by a young dev and he is using ifconfig instead of ip or similar stuff... I am having a hard time holding myself back not telling them ifconfig was deprecated before they were even born :)
On the other hand sometimes when my brain goes full autopilot it still defaults to writing
/etc/init.d/someservice restart
Like sysV wasnt out for a decade by now
ifconfig is still the standard on *BSD, MacOS and other Unixen. Plus its output is more readable on Linux than ip IMO, because it adds a blank line between interfaces.