I have over seven years of experience covering Microsoft, Surface, Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS news and rumors for sites like Digital Trends and OnMSFT. I also write laptop reviews and how-to guides.

Files, permissions, processes, networking, packages and disks: the Linux commands you actually use, with syntax and examples, and the ip and ss tools that replaced ifconfig and netstat.

I’m someone who prefers living in the terminal as much as possible. I’ve even moved a surprising number of my everyday apps there. Like most Linux users, I’ve also gone through a serious ...