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Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 62 points 3 months ago

Maybe Linux is 10 years ahead. Let's give our windows users some insight about their future:

Don't remove the French language pack with sudo!

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

If you have a 64 bit computer, you gotta delete system32.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This took me a minute to figure out 😝

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] JTheFox@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

sudo rm -fr /

Add —no-preserve-root if you really want to make sure it’s gone! /j

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

--no-preserve-root is only required if you try to remove /. For /* I don't think it's needed.

[-] JTheFox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ah oops, I didn’t even catch that. Forgot that /* only matches to glob and thus wouldn’t try to remove /

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I know just enough about Linux to know that's problematic. I don't know anything about language packs to know why someone try to remove one this way though. Just seems wrong from the get go.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's an old joke:

sudo = admin rights

rm = remove

fr = force recursive (the more popular syntax is

"rf" but for the joke its "fr" which looks like a short form for French)

/ * = C:\

It doesn't remove the French language pack, it removes the entire harddrive.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tbf it does remove the french language pack.
And then some more.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I understood the joke after seeing the command. It was getting the command from the joke that lost me. Cause I'd never have tried removing a language pack like that to begin with.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

But what if I hate the fr*nch?

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