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To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Nonononoki@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

To this day, I still don't know how to set a path variable permanently in any Linux distro

[-] excitingburp@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

export PATH=$PATH:/mypath1:/mypath2 in ~/.profile. Means "add :/mypath1:/mypath2 to what is already in $PATH." If you need the entire system to be aware, set or update it in /etc/environment with PATH=...

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I do feel like setting environment variable on linux is not as intuitive as on windows, but after I setup my workflow, I realized I never have the need to manually set any environmental variable besides in flatseal.

Maybe you have a specific use case for it?

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