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

  • @[email protected]
    61•4 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!

        • JayEnglish
          6•4 months ago

          sudo rm -fr /

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

          • @[email protected]
            4•4 months ago

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

            • JayEnglish
              1•4 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
            2•4 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.

            • @[email protected]
              9•4 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.

              • @[email protected]
                2•4 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.