the hardware / games compat problems were definitely real, at least for me. the number of times I’ve had to dive into config files to fix a hardware problem has dropped way off since I first started using linux. It’s very much better now.

I like this; I have a lot of commands that I don’t use often enough to justify an alias, but still need to rerun all the time. thanks!

For me ctrl-r is faster most of the time, history | grep [command] is better if I can’t easily pattern match (don’t remember it exactly, using several flag variations, etc.). they’re both good tools.