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[–] 192 points 3 years ago (13 children)

People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux's fault, and that the OS doesn't work.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago*

    Message two can also be caused by packages (or rather, package creators) with delusions of grandeur that only think that the system will stop working without them, so they rig things to threaten to uninstall the system.

    Or else someone has created too heavy a dependency on something that ought to be removable, but isn't thanks to malice or incompetence (or both).

    We still mock Microsoft for putting too heavy a dependency (or at least removal FUD) on whatever web browser they bundle with their OSes (first IE, now Edge), and here we might have a package creator trying the same damn thing.

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    [–] 186 points 3 years ago (4 children)
    • Login as a user.
    • Delete the user while still logged in
    • Run command

    You should get a message "you don't exist, go away"

    Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with "deluser $USER" and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that

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    • [–] 140 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    the famous "This incident will be reported" error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.

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    [–] 100 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!

    I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn't actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job

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    [–] 99 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's also the naughty programmer getting spanked by EFL

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    [–] 93 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The third one is new to me. "Congratulations" - that's fucking hilarious.

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    [–] 87 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Reminds me of the Chocolatey Uninstall script warning

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    What the heck tho, how could a simple script destroy a whole machine?

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    • [–] 72 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    score 10 or sacrifice child is actually just a MtG card, how did that get in there

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    [–] 71 points 3 years ago* (19 children)

    Yes, do as I say!

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  • [–] 54 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    "It's possible I did something wrong." 🤣
    Like not read the warning that said that he was about to uninstall the desktop? Or to continue only if he knew what he was doing? He also earlier liked to talk about "red flags", but somehow needing to type in "Yes, do as I say!" wasn't one to him. I'm supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?

    No. You're supposed to see what kind of experience someone who didn't use Linux before would have.

    How could someone who has never used Linux know that he was about to nuke his system, after typing in the command that the internet told him to type in to install Steam?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    What makes you think your average Windows user that is trying out Linux for the first time wouldn't have faced the same problem? I never understood why people criticized Linus for this video. After all, the video was supposed to see whether Linux is a viable alternative for Windows users (specifically gamers).

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Yes. People have been trained to ignore warnings like this.

    Android makes you jump through a hoop and tries to scare you when you want to install apps from outside the playstore.

    Windows has some similarly serious-sounding warning messages.

    People have got used to rolling their eyes at warnings when installing software. Like it or not, that's the way that it is. Users are used to seeing a scary warning when installing, and they're used to just powering through it without much thought.

    Linus was following a tutorial on the PopOS website, followed the instructions, and borked his install.

    I have problems with LTT in general, but the PopOS thing was entirely understandable, and people pretending that wasn't a usability problem in PopOS are delusional.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago*

    I agree with that other reply.

    Linus knew just enough to be dangerous.

    My experience with most Windows users and their first encounter with using a Linux terminal is every single warning/error they see no matter how mundane is a big deal.

    Things like the boot text or a random apt install on Linux will often display various warnings or even "errors" that are really of no concern but ime tend to freak out new users.

    Linus is in that narrow band where he doesn't really know shit but knows just enough to be falsely confident and ignore all the warnings/errors instead of just the irrelevant ones

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    • [–] 55 points 3 years ago

    Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

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    [–] 50 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Top one has to be my favorite. I've gotten it once. I did manage to get it to boot and fixed it but at the time I was just like: "oh....well shit"

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    [–] 38 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Your system ate a SPARC! Gah

    What does this mean? Does it has something to do with... I don't know, the Sun SPARC CPUs?

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    • [–] 30 points 3 years ago

    BEST os ever, proof is right here.

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    [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's some bare metal system breakage I can get behind

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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago

    Where lp0 on fire?

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    I've been messing around with Linux VMs and have gotten kernel panic a lot lately. Always gives me a chuckle

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