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What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by danielquinn@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.

I've got the usual forgetting the . in lines like this:

$ rm -rf ./bin

As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.

You know, the war stories.

Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.

Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects folder has been deleted like... just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Install Red Hat.

Kidding? Maybe.

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[-] Drito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I did so many shit on my PC, I don't remember an interesting one. Generally that was during a distro install.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I deleted some python folder and my systems have been having troubles saying the file isn't there

[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I once deleted /usr/bin while trying to delete /bin (symbolic link) because I accidentally misformed it . don't remember why I had to recreate /bin in the first place but it had something to do with installing java

[-] justin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago

Use dd

[-] afox@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

sudo apt-get purge java* good lord what a simple thing to avoid. I was pretty green at work during the time :(

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