I’ve been doing the OverTheWire Bandit over the past couple of days and have become stuck on the earlier levels. I deem this very embarrassing as this is supposed to be an “easy” and “recommended for beginners” type of puzzle that requires hands on understanding of the Linux terminal. But I have been using Linux for 9 months now, I wouldn’t do the most complicated things (other than break my whole os) only the things required to make my overall user experience somewhat enjoyable. Now this makes me very sad to come to the conclusions that I may be below the average Linux beginner which I didn’t know was possible according to my knowledge. I am only asking of tips and tricks to these puzzles and maybe to positive reinforcement to make feel better about myself. Now I will not tolerate spoilers as in the official rules of OverTheWire clearly states, and I hope you will follow this rule for the better sake of my learning and understanding of the Linux terminal ( and for the sake of the game itself)
Are people just not exploring websites anymore? Surely my household can’t be the only one where if you don’t know how to use a website or find something on it, we actively explore it. (Dodgy sites notwithstanding, I mean safe and legit sites). Am I strange that if I can’t work out how to use something, I look for a manual. And barring that, I try different things, trouble shoot using logic, etc. to work it out for myself… I’m not a programmer but I can’t say as I had a great deal of difficulty working out how to use Github (as a consumer) for myself…
I’m good at figuring things out. I don’t know how to get code on GitHub even though I’ve lazily tried multiple times.
I get frustrated because I’m looking for something that I feel should be easily found (code on GitHub). Instead I’m given a puzzle I have to navigate through. I thought getting the code off GitHub was going to be the easiest part of my project. Nope.
Everyone wants your data so apps and websites are intentionally designed to keep people moving through them. I’m not saying that is what GitHub is doing here but it’s the reason I have little curiosity to explore apps and websites anymore. It’s flawed by design. Not because the opportunity to improve the end user experience hasn’t occurred yet.
You haven’t said if you want to work on the code or only want to run the software, but if it’s the latter you don’t actually need the code usually. There’s usually a Releases page (I believe it can be found on the right side bar) that will have the software built and packaged for different systems. So unless it’s not available for your OS and you need to build it yourself (which can be a bit of a pain to figure out) you don’t need the code.
Install git. Then type
git clone <url>For example to download miniaudio you would type
git clone https://github.com/mackron/miniaudio.gitAnd it downloads all the code for you. There’s a button on github that says “code” if you click it you can copy the URL for cloning.
Thank you. I figured it must be fairly simply to get but kept putting it off.