Debian hints and tips?

[Feek]

As per the thread a couple below this, I've just installed Debian 12 on a little mini PC and a couple of things have already caught me out.

I had to install sudo and add my account to sudoers.

It took an age to find the reboot and shutdown commands: sudo systemctl reboot and sudo systemctl poweroff which I've set up aliases in .bash_aliases for ('reboot' and 'shutdown' respectively).

I need to learn to use and love ip instead of ifconfig.

What else is going to confuse me? The only *nix I've really used for years is Raspbian and occasionally some Ubuntu.

 

[Feek]

Ahh yes, thanks. I'd only tried the shutdown and reboot commands prior to adding my account to sudo, just removed the aliases, logged out and back in and the commands now work as expected. That's better.

 

[Feek]

What GUI did you choose?

It's headless, no GUI.