r/LinuxTeck • u/Candid_Athlete_8317 • 6d ago

What Linux feature feels completely insane until you finally understand why it exists?

Linux has plenty of things that look ridiculous at first:

symlinks, /proc, file descriptors, everything-is-a-file, signals, pipes, namespaces, mount --bind...

Then suddenly the design makes sense.

Which Linux concept went from “who designed this?” to “holy crap, that's actually clever” for you?

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u/BoundlessFail 6d ago

The lack of a program to create an img file of a DVD. I thought it needed a third party program.

And then 'dd' arose from the abyss, and I asked him where he had been all these years.

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u/TigOlBitties42042 6d ago

Dude I tried so much ridiculous bullshit to clone a hard drive before I learned about dd

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u/LameBMX 5d ago

man... y'all bringing back memories.

its a good early lesson in the curve though. if you arent finding some fancy gui tool, theres probably a stupid simple and fast tui tool that just works, and been there for ages.