This is a good article, especially if you're the lucky 10,000.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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I was one of the 10 000. Again!
Please make the site respect my color setting by default.
It's a sunny spring day.
~~I was expecting some cool Mario strats~~
I'm always using "clear" to just get rid of my console's output. I think it has something to do with me remembering I used that on my old 80's computer, trying it out on a bash long after that and "oh, that works here too, that's convenient".
Reset looks like it does more stuff, but I don't know if that's useful for this use case.
I asked this myself, too. AI response:
clear: clears the visible screen (sends the terminal’s “clear” sequence); usually fast and does not change terminal settings or fully reinitialize scrollback.
reset: fully reinitializes the terminal (sends init strings, resets modes/attributes, may reconfigure terminfo/baud, and clears); slower and used to recover from garbled output or broken state.
Nothing gets my nerdrage on more than using CTRL+w in a browser-based shell and closing the tab.
Yeah, annoying that it has different meanings.