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

      • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        sudo rm -fr /

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

        • vaionko
          4·
          4 months ago

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

          • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

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

        • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          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.

          • Samsy@lemmy.ml
            9·
            4 months ago

            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.

            • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
              2·
              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.