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    Comment on a YT video about Windows on ARM (lemmy.world)
    submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    sudo rm -fr /

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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 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 points 4 months ago (1 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.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 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.