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[โ€“] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't want to be one of the people you think is angry at you, but I do want to proselytize a bit.

have you ever used a dedicated download manager? think of the terminal, first, as a dedicated download manager. All you do is type wget and then paste in the URL.

eventually, you may want to specify where the file goes, or what it's named when you finally download it, or something else. then, you can look up which flags to add with wget -h

I suggest you try Linux, any flavor, but especially Debian or Debian variants. instead of thinking you need to learn to use terminal, just remember that you have a dedicated download manager called terminal.

The thing is you will eventually learn that the terminal does a lot more than called wget. and you already know how to get help, and add flags.