there are lots of cheatsheets out there but the best way to learn commands is practice. different people will use different commands, so you may not need to spend time learning ffmpeg syntax whereas others find it invaluable. Google is your friend while learning. if you have a Linux question, chances are someone else has had the same question and posted about it online. as far as basics go, spend some time learning about grep and find, they are probably the two most valuable basic commands imo outside of the common ls/mkdir/etc.

as for sudo, it’s just “superuser do” so it’s essentially the same as hitting run as admin in windows. lots of times if you try to run a command without sudo that needs it, you’ll get a permission error which reminds you to run as superuser. it eventually becomes second nature to say “ah, this command needs direct access to a hardware device or system files” which means it’ll need to be run with sudo.

you’re a lifesaver!! I swear I looked pretty hard on the internet for this exact solution without success. my apologies!!

thanks for the info!!!

my thing is that it becomes hard to automate things. you install a package in a toolbox, then if you want to use that package in a script you must first enter the toolbox manually. I wish there was a way to enter the toolboxes programmatically for scripting.

edit: I was incorrect, see below comment

I ran alpine on bare metal for multiple years. ran jellyfin with no issues. only switched away from it due to very limited GPU driver support.