Does linux have something similar to a recycle bin that is easy to use to find deleted files? I am not talking about the ones that are deleted twice over like when ypu empty the recycle bin
@BronzeAgeHogCranker @shortstories
Yup.
Linux trusts you to be a big boy and so doesn't play childish games like "Weellll, I know you asked me to delete the files but you're also dumb, so tada!! Here they really are!!"
Nope, you're fucked unless you know data forensics.
Mitigations? Backups or time-machine-like programs where you can roll back.
Or try your hand at using ZFS or BTRFS to live-snapshot data.
My biggest complaint is the guys that tell people how to do stuff in Linux the hard way ("use vim bro!") when they themselves aren't particularly hardcore users. They're just apeing what they see da kool hackerz doing. Someone who is trying out Linux and just wants their sound card to work is not going to be impressed when you send them down a fucking maze of text editor minutiae to edit one line of a config file. They're just going to say "fuck this" and buy Windows
@BronzeAgeHogCranker @shortstories
True enough. There are flavors of nix that can be used at all levels, and within most you can be entirely GUI-driven if you want.
My kids began learning on raspberry pi from the get-go at a young age and never needed to drop into the terminal, at least initially.
Literally anyone can use linux and I agree, it's super cringe when wannabes with pretend emacs.d profiles go give cringe "l33t" advice. Fuck those guys.
if you used a file manager on the desktop then it largely depends how that file manager handles trash/deletion etc. but generally they all have a trash/recycle bin somewhere in the quick links when you open a file explorer window
if you did a rm -f then it's fucked unless you want to get in to data recovery territory. don't know much about that