Anybody know how to fix without having to add in that unix socket?

Well, i use xampp and it's similar i guess. in my case the file my.cnf was the correct socket

 [mysqld]
socket		= /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock

and here is my database.php database.php

        'mysql' => [
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'unix_socket' => '/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock',
            'host'      => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
            'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
            'strict'    => false,
        ],