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I've been using around 5 years now and this shit is actually getting into my head. I wanted to add some stuff to gimp including scripts. Well I found an old repository for gimp that had been cloned and the scripts were just text. I remember the site from when I was a new user with a year or so under my belt and thought this was useless, how wrong I was then. Well the text was there and I just made a new text file on the desktop and copied all the txt script from the site and pasted it into the file and named it the title of the script at the top with a .scm extension and they worked. I didn't try to look how to do this, it just felt that it was the right way. Like when in appearance it says to do a command in the terminal for each icon theme to make a cache and I made an empty file on the desktop and named it icon-theme.cache and just copied and paste paste paste into every folder that the appearance said did not have a theme. I finally realized that a lot of Linux is not programs but basic txt files. It only took around 5 years for that to sink in. Hell I even knew to look in .config/gimp to find where to put the scm and the abr files for gimp. I guess I'm slowly getting there.

Today for the first time I used the chown command when some of my hard drives were owned by root and not me so I fixed that really quick but then I realized the folders and files were still root so I then redid it with the -hR option for making the chown command recursive.

I've been using around 5 years now and this shit is actually getting into my head. I wanted to add some stuff to gimp including scripts. Well I found an old repository for gimp that had been cloned and the scripts were just text. I remember the site from when I was a new user with a year or so under my belt and thought this was useless, how wrong I was then. Well the text was there and I just made a new text file on the desktop and copied all the txt script from the site and pasted it into the file and named it the title of the script at the top with a .scm extension and they worked. I didn't try to look how to do this, it just felt that it was the right way. Like when in appearance it says to do a command in the terminal for each icon theme to make a cache and I made an empty file on the desktop and named it icon-theme.cache and just copied and paste paste paste into every folder that the appearance said did not have a theme. I finally realized that a lot of Linux is not programs but basic txt files. It only took around 5 years for that to sink in. Hell I even knew to look in .config/gimp to find where to put the scm and the abr files for gimp. I guess I'm slowly getting there. Today for the first time I used the chown command when some of my hard drives were owned by root and not me so I fixed that really quick but then I realized the folders and files were still root so I then redid it with the -hR option for making the chown command recursive.

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Did you try adding yourself to the root group? That could be a quicker / easier way to deal with ownership problems.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

already did that. I found the problem I had to use the chmod command to give me write priveleges. I also had to use the sudo -i to do this right. It was giving me so much shit but the folder was one I had from 2010 on a CD and the files didn't change from read only. I got it all fixed now and learned a new command but will have to use it more to remember it properly.