Obligatory reminder to remove the French language pack:
sudo rm -fr /*make sure to add
--no-preserved-rootto make sure to update all the English libraries too so you can make sure only freedom fries are respected.Not necessary with
/*Only needed if you dorm -rf /No preserved root because candied ginger is gross
My brother did this accidentally… twice… Don’t ask me how you manage to do this twice…
I add a -v because I like to watch.
You sick Bastard.
alias trash-put from trash-cli in both sudo and user.
myrm() { trash-put "$@" } alias rm="myrm"This has saved my ass so many times. Especially when typing “rm * .png” instead of “rm *.png”
Can restore the files using the cli or from system recycling bin.
The alias to rm is probably not best. So getting use to using another name is probably best. But I’m never had a problem with it.
Or just use snapshots. If you are into aliases make an alias for rm to make a snapshot before deleting something.
I’ve never ran into any issues from using rm but I like this idea and will be using it as I only see positives
Downsides can be inconsistent behavior. As with any alias it’s not meant to be anything but a replacement in your shell. Scripts/SSH etc.
Also, you gotta remember to empty your trash. :)
That feeling where rm is taking a while to return to the prompt
Exactly. Ctrl+C and hope ls isn’t completely empty.
I mean… You’re not wrong. If there’s a French language pack on the system, it will remove it.
Tap for spoiler
Along with everything else.
help
Did you actually run it?
In this case, I hope you had a backup. Boot a live system to see if there’s anything left. Back that up, then reinstall.
I once tried to delete something I was not supposed to and the system was quite adamant on advising against it. The system was to be reinstalled so I was just trying things.
It’s been a while but I recall the system giving me a first warning that my command woud delete X, Y and Z, which could render the system inoperable.
Then it questioned me if I was sure I wanted to proceed with the operation.
The final warning was a sum of the potential damage I would do to the system and that it would be irreversible, without a full system install.
So, three strikes.
That’s not true. Most distros now ask you to add —no-preserve-root
Have you tried to add
*to the path? No more nagging about that pesky missing safety parameter…rm -fr /*Bonus points of you do:
rm -fr $ACCIDENTIALLY_UNDEFINED_VAR/*Well, technically those aren’t the same command (but works well enough if you’re trying to render a system unusable).
rm -rf /* would not remove /.secret. It rm -rf / would
Reminds me of when a script released by Valve did just this back in the day.
yes, do as I say!
While great, we should also have some safe guards so normies can use linux without destroying their entire system
I just uninstalled edge on my laptop (still windows for work/study compatability)
EU laws!
It will be back on next update😭
And in larger numbers.
Even with the “proper” uninstall I can do now? noooo, I thought that was only for deleting the files!
Edge is the El Cucaracha of browsers, u can never truly kill it
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This is a classic case of a Linux user speaking out of their ass about windows. If you’re in the EU it should not come back.
Oh, so like the post itself.
Android: screenshot dir? Use DIRECTORY_PICTURES env variable. Changing either? Lol, eat dirt pleb.
I remember when windows would let you delete system32 but not Internet Explorer.
Linux is not free like in “freeware” but in “free to fuck yourself if you want”
It’s both. Free as in free beer (gratis) and free as in freedom (libre).
Free as in climbing
Free as in fallin’?
As a user, I hate when an OS gets in my way. Or insists that there is one right way to do something.
As the tech support guy in my family, I’m grateful that windows denies permission, has big guard rails, and forces you to do updates.
I suppose immutable systems are ment to stop the end user from bugging out the system but even regular Linux distrios need to assume that there users are incompetent cus I am.
I managed to destroy my immutable linux install by resizing the OS partition while it was running.
I would argue that that mistake is indeed on you and the possibility of failure likely predictable. (At least if you were shrinking it)
I was actually trying to increase it, by shrinking the windows partition. It feels like Universal Blue is a little weird in its handling of grub, and from what I understand, I wasn’t supposed to be dual-booting it on the same disk to begin with.
Edit: But yes, I take full responsibility for that blunder.
Bruh. For how many years did Windows make every luddite, child, and grandparent default Administrator with full, unprompted access to install viruses, run scripts, and delete system files?
Isn’t that still the case with Linux now?
Just add sudo to your commands
Nah. Fuck forced updates. Only time I’m forced to use windows is for work.
I have to play the “low battery” game when it starts notifying me during work. Unplugging and repowering the laptop right below 10% so it won’t restart and disconnect my VM and SSH sessions I’m using for work.
I don’t care what anyone says. Updates that can’t have a forever “give me 1 more hour” indefinitely are just going to destroy work.
Suddenly restarting in the middle of someone working is just awful design. I don’t care how many “warnings” there are.
I’m connected to a remote session and doing work. If you restart my computer I could lose my work. The OS is not some self contained thing you can always save the state in.
Unplugging and repowering the laptop right below 10% so it won’t restart and disconnect my VM and SSH sessions I’m using for work.
For SSH, assuming that the remote system is Linux, run
tmuxon the remote system and do your work in that. If your SSH connection gets killed off, you just ssh back in andtmux attachto your old tmux session.
I did this once by accident, I deleted every file that had KDE as a dependency recursively. As well as every file that KDE listed as a dependency, recursively.
Lesson learnt
You can’t kill windows with windows but you can kill Linux with Linux. Remember that.
You can definitely kill window with windows,it’s just done through the GUI and it’s a messy operation, like killing a whale with a chainsaw.
Or it decides to do it all by itself, no user interaction required.
You can cripple it pretty easily if you know what you’re doing, but killing does take some effort
sudo apt remove grubE: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.You can still do it if you really want, but even Linux rightly has some protections against breaking your system.
I do want to clarify: it’s not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch’s pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰
True, Linux applications (e.g. apt, dnf, pip, but also rm, sudo, and many more) would be more precise.
For Arch, it’s probably not so easy to define “essential” packages, as it, for example, supports many different bootloaders. It is of course also a question of distro philosophy and target audience. Personally, I’ve noticed that “rm -r” as root prompts for every file on RHEL but does not on Arch…
Yeah, swapped out
grubforsystemd-initon a running Arch system not too long ago. Arch is cool with it. Be sure not to make any really bad typos while you’ve not got a boot manager, of course.
I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn’t do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?
Try it and report back
I’m tempted, though I use rEFInd not grub, but fixing any damage should be easy with a live image handy…
You’re very brave! I meant on like a virtual machine
Eh, I’ve previously fucked up my bootloader, all you need to do to fix it is boot up a live image, mount your root partition, arch-chroot into it, then follow normal steps to set the bootloader back up - it’s not scary if you know what you’re doing, just time-consuming
Single use linux.
Narrator: “Turned out Windows never needed Edge to work”
It doesn’t even need it to show you ads on your purchased OS, they just do it to be dicks.
I once forgot to install the Linux package when I was installing Arch on a system. Linux even let’s you not use Linux, if you like.
It didn’t boot.
accidentally deleted every dependency VLC requires instead of deleting VLC. Absolutely recked EVERYTHING on my PC.
I deserve it for trying to remove the best video player 😔
@TriflingToad @azha apt moment…
Remove and reinstall VLC should install all the dependencies, yeah?
I managed to remove all the kernels instead of all the old kernels. It was a good learning experience fixing it later, and now I pay much more attention when
aptwarns about “potentially dangerous operations”.
