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Comment on a YT video about Windows on ARM (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by mrvictory1@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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!

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

If you have a 64 bit computer, you gotta delete system32.

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[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This took me a minute to figure out 😝

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don't get it.

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[–] JTheFox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

sudo rm -fr /

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

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[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] JTheFox@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

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

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

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.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago*

Tbf it does remove the french language pack.
And then some more.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

But what if I hate the fr*nch?

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