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    [–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Always remove the French language pack from the root dir

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If its freshly installed, you still remember how to do it again... 15 minutes and its installed again.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Worse is managing to type your password and confirm password identically incorrectly. It takes the same 15 minutes, but also 15 minutes of not being able to believe it.

    Based on a true story.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    True. After 10 I decided I had enough and rebooted.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

    Gotta delete the French language pack

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process 😅🤣. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you're not careful enough. Fun times.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's things like this that prevent me from using Linux more.

    I force myself to use it for projects where it's an option because I feel I need to learn it better but I kind of dread it every time.

    Inevitably I'm stuck frustrated reading conflicting guides from years ago and wondering just how badly I'm going to fuck things up this time.

    Sometimes it all feels so esoteric.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've always loved Linux, even when it was kicking my ass. I can't imagine approaching it with the attitude "Ugh, I have to force myself to use this thing, and I know that it's going to frustrate me".

    That sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because everybody has cognitive biases. Since you expect it to be frustrating, you're going to remember all the times that it is and forget the times when it isn't.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    It's a chicken and egg situation.

    It's frustrating because I don't know it, and I don't learn it because it's frustrating.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Get on it. If you can manage to daily drive it for a few months I think you'll learn a lot. When I jumped ship I only knew basic commands like cd and ls.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Can't, really. Have several critical Windows only apps.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What kind of things do you need to do? For software development my experience is that it's just install and you can start working. Maybe one tutorial to get kubernetes running locally.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Generally deploying some kind of service.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Excuse me, but that type of foolishness requires -- no-preserve-root nowadays

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Not in this case. It's */ here so it expands to directories at current location. I'm sure that's a typo though

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm not brave enough to test it on my distro, so I'll take your word on that lol

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You can do echo */ and echo /* to see how they expand. Also rm -rf / already is enough without the * as it already is recursive

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    * is there to bypass the need for --no-preserve-root

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    rm -rf / needs --no-preserve-root on GNU coreutils, I think.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    why do they even have that lever

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Originally, rm would merrily nuke your whole filesystem if you told it to. At some point, someone thought that was a pretty stupid default behaviour, so they added that flag to change the default to not nuke your entire filesystem. However, they made the change backwards compatible in case someone still needed the old behaviour. I can imagine in a container or throwaway environment, it might be vaguely reasonable to expect to be able the blat /.

    See also:

    Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

    -- Eric Allman

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I'm aware of how recursive force remove works. I'm just kidding around.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Anybody brave enough to tell the MS rep this on patch night??

    (You have backups, right?)

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    You emptied your home directory?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The one time when misstyping your password was a good thing

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    Depending on where that terminal is open, you probably haven't really done much damage

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I enjoy hearing the word foolish after such a long time!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Do people actually do this?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    im gonna have to obtain an testing laptop for this

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    make a snapshot of it and then just run the command to your heart's content

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Wouldn't rm -rf / eat /home, too? That doesn't get backed up in a snapshot...