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3 years ago by spigeon to c/linuxmemes

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walter_wiggles 61 points 3 years ago

Always remove the French language pack from the root dir

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SexualPolytope 17 points 3 years ago

fr

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centopus 42 points 3 years ago

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

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Bipta 37 points 3 years ago

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.

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Flumsy 7 points 3 years ago

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

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sharkfucker420 31 points 3 years ago

Gotta delete the French language pack

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bazzett 21 points 3 years ago

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.

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Kepabar 8 points 3 years ago

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.

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seitanic 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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Kepabar 1 point 3 years 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.

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spez 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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Kepabar 1 point 3 years ago

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

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camelbeard 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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Kepabar 3 points 3 years ago

Generally deploying some kind of service.

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rockSlayer 16 points 3 years ago

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

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narshee 21 points 3 years ago

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

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rockSlayer 5 points 3 years ago

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

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narshee 12 points 3 years ago

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

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fl42v 16 points 3 years ago

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

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second 6 points 3 years ago

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

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rockSlayer 3 points 3 years ago

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

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FuglyDuck 2 points 3 years ago

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

(You have backups, right?)

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Jumuta 9 points 3 years ago

it's/*

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Dagrothus 8 points 3 years ago

You emptied your home directory?

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xkforce 8 points 3 years ago

The one time when misstyping your password was a good thing

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trk 6 points 3 years ago

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

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maeries 2 points 3 years ago

Do people actually do this?

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Damaskox 2 points 3 years ago

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

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 1 point 3 years ago

im gonna have to obtain an testing laptop for this

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cupcakezealot -3 points 3 years ago

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

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seitanic 2 points 3 years ago

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

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