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

    • 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.