Are you opposed to using awk?

Not at all, I’m just not familiar with it so I find it confusing.

Although, looking at your command, i think I understand what it means

I see. I guess what confused me was that i didn’t understand what addresses were.

Thank you for your explanations :)

I meant to ask what is the difference between, i.e., sed '/myregex/ s/from/to/ p' and sed '/myregex/ s/from/to/ ; p', but while testing to explain what i meant I answered myself, and in the process I also understood what addresses are ehe

Right, awk is a proper programming language, right? that’ll be for another day…

!/dev/dm-2!!p

This weired me out until I read the explanation. I’m so used to the slashes lol

In the end I’ve used the first command you wrote, because KISS, but I appreciate your explanation

Check the sed man page for more details

Yes that’s been my only source so far, but to be honest it’s really cryptic. it might just be that I’m used to syscalls man pages (also sed is kinda complex it can’t be easy to write a single man page for it)

The -n suppresses auto-printing

That’s something I was missing! It makes the command look definitely less complicated.

Also, what is the difference between separating expressions with a space vs with a semicolon?

Easier IMHO is awk

Eh, that’s another beast. For some reason tho I find sed more appealing.

No viruses is when the gui sucks

Yup, no doubts there.

Anyway, OP, if I were you I’d buy that laptop (not for gaming tho, or at least not if you’re looking for something more than “good enough”)

I’m not really sure, but wasn’t userbenchmark biased in favor of nvidia gpu?

In any case, I agree that an rx5500 is on the weaker side, so don’t expect much, but it shouldn’t be a lot worse than an rtx3050 (i’m not an expert tho)

Ads try to sell you something, there is no “call to action”. Here, there is nothing to sell, so by definition it’s not an ad.

They are just asking you if you’d like to help them in providing you the product you’re already using.

Not an ad. No one is trying to sell you anything.

(If you get the notification) you’re already using their product.

I don’t remember where, but i read that this method only works because linux distributors “abuse” the ISO format to allow this. If I remember right, it’s not possible to use this ISOs on regular disks

Of course the command you provided is right and it’s what I use, it’s just a fun fact