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Neat, but I was immediately disappointed when I typed "ls" and "df" and got "unknown command" for both. If it's going to look like a *nix shell, it ought to recognize the most common commands and give some interesting/clever output. There's a huge opportunity for creativity being missed.


Funny, for a "most common command", I had to `man df` even though I've used Linux for ages :) Turns out I only checked my diskspace in the GUI File Explorer, never in the terminal. And at uni, the command was `quota` (but that might be a diy script they used there, as `man` doesn't recognize the command).


If you Google "common linux commands" and check the top few lists you'll find that "df" is on all of them, so it really is considered common by people other than me. In the age of the GUI, though, I can see how people might never need to learn it.




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