accidentally deleted every dependency VLC requires instead of deleting VLC. Absolutely recked EVERYTHING on my PC.
I deserve it for trying to remove the best video player 😔
Obligatory reminder to remove the French language pack:
sudo rm -fr /*help
yes, do as I say!
I once tried to delete something I was not supposed to and the system was quite adamant on advising against it. The system was to be reinstalled so I was just trying things.
It’s been a while but I recall the system giving me a first warning that my command woud delete X, Y and Z, which could render the system inoperable.
Then it questioned me if I was sure I wanted to proceed with the operation.
The final warning was a sum of the potential damage I would do to the system and that it would be irreversible, without a full system install.
So, three strikes.
I remember when windows would let you delete system32 but not Internet Explorer.
Narrator: “Turned out Windows never needed Edge to work”
I think you mean:
sudo I want to delete everything to corrupt my system
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=$(df | grep '\s/$' | cut -d' ' -f1)(Omit the
if you are using the fish terminal)
Yup. And I’ve seen countless “articles” by trust-me-i-am-it-guru’s whining that this is allowed
I just uninstalled edge on my laptop (still windows for work/study compatability)
EU laws!
It will be back on next update😭
And in larger numbers.
Even with the “proper” uninstall I can do now? noooo, I thought that was only for deleting the files!
Edge is the El Cucaracha of browsers, u can never truly kill it
Just gotta say sudo
And everything and your entire PC is under your control
As a user, I hate when an OS gets in my way. Or insists that there is one right way to do something.
As the tech support guy in my family, I’m grateful that windows denies permission, has big guard rails, and forces you to do updates.
Bruh. For how many years did Windows make every luddite, child, and grandparent default Administrator with full, unprompted access to install viruses, run scripts, and delete system files?
I suppose immutable systems are ment to stop the end user from bugging out the system but even regular Linux distrios need to assume that there users are incompetent cus I am.
I did this once by accident, I deleted every file that had KDE as a dependency recursively. As well as every file that KDE listed as a dependency, recursively.
Lesson learnt
You can’t kill windows with windows but you can kill Linux with Linux. Remember that.
sudo apt remove grubSingle use linux.
E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.You can still do it if you really want, but even Linux rightly has some protections against breaking your system.
I do want to clarify: it’s not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch’s pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰
Yeah, swapped out
grubforsystemd-initon a running Arch system not too long ago. Arch is cool with it. Be sure not to make any really bad typos while you’ve not got a boot manager, of course.
I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn’t do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?
Yes, do as I say!
That’s not true. Most distros now ask you to add —no-preserve-root
Have you tried to add
*to the path? No more nagging about that pesky missing safety parameter…rm -fr /*Bonus points of you do:
rm -fr $ACCIDENTIALLY_UNDEFINED_VAR/*
