I've been using Linux on my computers now for probably a decade, and it never cease to amaze me how easy it is to do some things …

For example a few minutes ago I had a need to convert a single page pdf file into a jpg file.

My first thought was open it in GIMP and then save it as a jpg because I know that GIMP handles pdf files quite well.

Then I remembered that there is a nifty terminal utility called convert. So in less time than it took to even get GIMP started I had the terminal window opened and typed in "convert file.pdf file.jpg"… and it was done.

Nice!