Something something rm -fr / to remove the french language pack
and
rm -rfremoves only the République française language packrm -fr /*newer versions of coreutils require --no-preserve-root on /* too
Also you don’t want to preserve the word roots of it so you have to add --no-preserve-root
the people who troll or make fun of linux beginners are the same people who wonder every year why desktop linux isn’t more mainstream
And 80% of these are on Lemmy, I mean put up a question or comment that how Linux is not helpful is simple tasks such as giving permissions to program without using command prompt , will get you downvotes/ you are idiot comments heavily.
never had anything quite as bad, there are a lot of people commenting “JuSt SwiTcH tO LiNuX” and never answer when you explain how you’ve tried to switch but sim racing, CAD and many other things are way too complicated to get running reliably.
Yeah it’s pretty bad
Yeah this is the is the biggest reason I dislike Linux forums in a broad sense. Snobby elitist pricks.
Don’t even get me started on arch Linux forums… my favorite is when someone says is something like “this is super fucking simple you just follow this guide: [insert wiki link that is basically a scientific dissertation on the history of arch]
I think the most annoying people in Forums:
“Well I use Debian, and I use only native packages! I update manually because I need to resolve those dependency problems! Go to hell with your Flatpaks and telemitry, I want freedom! Also I will never use Wayland because Mate doesn’t support it”
People thinking they can give advice, while they are clearly using outdated software, not scaleable maintenance effords, etc.
I had this in the KDE forum. Literally 2 dudes telling me no system could auto update, while my system does, today.
people hating on flatpak is a clear indicator of people who don’t prioritize an easily useful system.
I also feel like a lot of those people are there just to be pricks. I don’t think they really know much at all so their input was unwarranted in the first place.
The arch wiki is a very good resource and I use it for all Linux distros. But like most repositories of its kind, it gives you the how and not the why.
That’s what most people want from another person, they ask “how” but I think they mean “why”.
Interestingly enough the Arch Linux subreddit is or was way more tame in comparison to its forum
at least I always quoted the relevant paragraph in the wiki alongside a link since I believe it did a better job at explaining it than I could
and if it wasn’t in the wiki I added it into it beforehandIt’s the same on Lemmy. Linux people live in a fantasy world…it’s like ya I’ve done some things on Linux but is it the best OS for most people? Nah. Not even close.
:(){:|:&};:shoutout to @jaromil@fed.dyne.org who (i believe?) created this fork bomb :)
there is a great in-depth writeup about fork bombs in general, and this one specifically, here.
cheers mate. it’s a virus because its copied all over ✌🏽 part of the artwork concept
Now that’s a weird way you like oral sex…
Do you not use the “ampersand” when “dining at the Y”? Prude. It’s perfectly safe with the proper preparation. Don’t believe the rumors, they’ve got all the signs of a moral panic.
The forbidden emoji
:()
Classic fork bomb
Tech forums in any sense.
If you’re tired of seeing the same questions, why are you here? You can just ignore them. But treating a newbie like an idiot for not knowing better just discourages people from getting into your thing and keeps you from meeting cool new people.
ESPECIALLY because a lot of these questions come from kids that literally haven’t had the chance to learn better yet. Just kindly point them where they need to go. It takes just as much time as telling them off.
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Linux Support Communities are a trillion times more welcoming, kind and understanding of new people today than they were 10 and 20 years ago.
I still am scared to ask questions, but at least when I finally have no choice and resign myself to asking a question… its generally answered kindly, and if its not answered directly I’m at least put in the right direction. And that helps me build my own knowledge base, and helps me solve future problems on my own.
Unlike when I did my first dip into linux a couple decades ago where you’d be called some creative combination of Windows/Microsoft and a sexual slur and told to go the fuck back to windows if you are too stupid to have been born without the complete comprehensive understanding of the terminal.
I hope the community continues to improve, and welcome newbies and their problems like it currently does, so we can all grow and thrive together.
I trolled myself by “learning” that I could delete all files in a directory, including hidden files, with
rm -rf ./*. The mistake being that I (more than once…) accidentally put a space between the.and/.And that’s why every rm command should start life as an ls command and then change the command and options while not touching the target directory. Takes a little longer, but saves so much hassle when you do fuck up.
This is the best advice in the whole thread.
Check what you’re doing before you do it.
Rm was updated to actually log a warning in the
-rf /cases, so that’s less likely to happen anymore. Still not a bad habit to use ls though/* still works I think
not if you use
/*. gp was totally screwed with their typo.
I forced myself to use trash (from trash-cli) when I lost my first server install from this.
Nowadays, I’ve removed the alias from rm that asked me to use trash, and am still using trash if there’s a chance I might want to keep something.
I just alias rm to trash and if I really want to remove something I just escape the alias:
\rmCould do that, but they have different flu args.i respect the power of rm now.
This is why I like my Manjaro friends and neighbours.
The fact that you need a qualifier speaks volumes.
I just got a new laptop, I want to change it to Linux, it is going to be a really fun experience
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Thanks.
I asked for help on the Discord server of LinuxServer.io and they were literally talking shit about me to each other while I was in the chat because I didn’t understand their utter garbage documentation for a Docker I was having trouble with, even with a CS degree.
discord 🗿
The best part of LSCR containers is that their Docker config is rather standardized.
The worst part is they haven’t figured out logging for like 75% of them.
This moment when another meme stolen from Deltachat completely explodes
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I realised, that sometimes it is more like a different experience level. And some people forget it could be possible the asking person is an absolute newbie.
And most people in forums are there because they want to help, but they want to help on this one asked case and won’t teach the whole Linux universe, most people need years of experience for.
The good thing is, we can use AI for this nowadays, it won’t go mad if you are missing an elemental “you really should know, how this works” kind of error.
Yeah people need to find the startingpoint often.
But it is annoying if people ask stuff that is like a single web search, or throw out nonsensical myths that make no sense.
Especially on the GrapheneOS discuss really technical people like always help them, and I think this has to be very tiring
