Debian

Productivity

• Ulauncher
• Notion (web)
• Microsoft To Do (web)
• Obsidian
• Joplin
• Google Keep (web)

Coding

• Visual Studio Code
• FileZilla

Video and graphics

• VLC
• Shotcut
• Canva (web)

System and file repair

• sudo fsck -f /dev/sdXN
• sudo apt --fix-broken install
• sudo dpkg --configure -a
• sudo kill -9 $(pgrep program)

fsck must run on an unmounted partition, never on the active root filesystem while the system is running.

Network and connectivity

• sudo resolvectl flush-caches
• sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
• ping google.com

System information

• hostnamectl
• sudo dmidecode -s system-serial-number

Advanced tools

• sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt clean
• sudo reboot

Application administration

Clear terminal history

• cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit

Clear APT and Flatpak caches

• flatpak uninstall --unused
• flatpak repair
• flatpak update --appstream
• flatpak pin --remove <runtime-id>
• flatpak pin
• sudo apt clean
• sudo rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/*
• sudo apt update
• sudo apt upgrade
• sudo apt full-upgrade
• flatpak update -y

Firewall

Debian uses ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) as a simple front end for iptables.

• sudo ufw status
• sudo ufw enable
• sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
• sudo ufw reload

Copying files via terminal

• cp file.txt ~/Backup/
• rsync -av Source/ Destination/
• scp file.txt user@host:/path/

Disk usage and storage

• df -h for total and free space per filesystem
• du -sh * to see folder sizes in the current directory

Scheduled tasks

• crontab -e for traditional cron-style scheduling
• systemctl list-timers to view active systemd timers

Compression and archiving

• zip -r archive.zip folder/ and unzip archive.zip
• tar -czvf archive.tar.gz folder/ and tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz

History