Obligatory reminder to remove the French language pack:
sudo rm -fr /*
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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I mean... You're not wrong. If there's a French language pack on the system, it will remove it.
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Along with everything else.
I add a -v because I like to watch.
You sick Bastard.
My brother did this accidentally... twice... Don't ask me how you manage to do this twice...
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.
That feeling where rm is taking a while to return to the prompt
Exactly. Ctrl+C and hope ls isn't completely empty.
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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.
make sure to add --no-preserved-root to 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 do rm -rf /
No preserved root because candied ginger is gross
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'?
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 π
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 apt warns about "potentially dangerous operations".
Remove and reinstall VLC should install all the dependencies, yeah?
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.
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.
While great, we should also have some safe guards so normies can use linux without destroying their entire system
I remember when windows would let you delete system32 but not Internet Explorer.
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.
Android: screenshot dir? Use DIRECTORY_PICTURES env variable. Changing either? Lol, eat dirt pleb.
yes, do as I say!
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.
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