Comment on Linux Best Practices

Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s the new “delete system32 to get better performance”

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  • Album@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol rm -rf as a joke isn’t new anyway

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  • decodehug647@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    except you probably delete more than system files which could be easily restored from an install disk

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• newline@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I totally agree. We should be more open and welcoming to new users. Imagine some new people on the steam deck being curious and diving into Linux and running into this. Undoubtedly, we’d lose at least a few users that brick their machines.

  I get that this humor fits and entertains the technically inclined of us, but if we truly want more widespread use of Linux, shouldn’t we open our arms to less technical users as well? Besides, even for the more technical of us, this joke is so old and run down 🙃

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  • dot20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There’s those jokes on the Windows side too (like the ‘delete system32’ one).

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    • ibk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except that you cannot actually delete System32 on Windows like you can delete your whole drive on Linux.

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      • _thebrain_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can’t do this on Linux anymore either. Unless you are on a way out of date system, you need to add the --no-preserce-root flag as well. And I think it still prompts you to make sure it is really want you want to do.

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      • TotalFat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In NT4, you could delete ntldr. Next time you reboot, you have a dead system that was a relative PITA to recover. Generally just wipe and reload.

        So many users trying to gain more disk space on those 210 MB hard drives…

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• Phoenix@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, but also I would have that if you have the autonomy to install linux you also have the autonomy to look up an unknown command before running it.

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  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s making an assumption that a brand new Linux user knows they are running the command with superuser privileges.

    Half the time you websearch a problem you are having in Linux you will find someone telling you to fix it by running a command that starts with sudo without explaining what any part of the command does. New people probably regularly run those commands without finding out what it does and it probably works (or at least does no harm) a good portion of the time because most people aren’t dicks. So then you’ve got new people trusting that form of advice.

    It’s hard to blame them, they are new to the system and very few experienced users are going out of their way to explain the basics to new users.

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  • Gremour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m around 20 years Linux user and I’m still installing various soft by curl bashing a script from their site.

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    • gendulf@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

      Why is it the canon way to install rust by piping curl output to sh???

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      • Gremour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        At least it doesn’t start with sudo, lol.

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• Reliant1087@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a word play that many people find funny. It’s also a call back to something you might have done as a newbie when messing around that people find funny, like talking about that time you thought tried to wash okra after chopping or mixed coloured and white clothes in the laundry. A horrifying experience when it happens but something that you usually find funny later on in retrospect.

  Apart from that sudo in Linux comes with enough warning labels to say that it should only be used when you know what you’re doing. Running unknown commands on terminal is dangerous, like trying to play with the stuff under the hood in a car. Both of these facts are abundantly made clear with big red warning signs in every single reputable source you look up for any popular distro.

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• iegod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was funny when I was a sixth grade punk. Now it’s just cringe worthy.

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  • ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “It was funny when I used to do it but now I don’t like them anymore so everyone else should stop.”

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    • Thepolack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s okay, nay, good to realise that something you do or did was harmful and change your opinion of said thing. It’s how you grow as a person.

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      • ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They haven’t actually acknowledged it being harmful, they just said it was cringe worthy. You don’t have to like everything but it’s hypocritical to complain about others’ sense of humour, for something you yourself once enjoyed.

        No evidence of character growth here…

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• alphacyberranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’ll be a good learning experience for anyone who runs commands seen on this community.

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  • IzzyJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t need learning experiences with Windows. Lot of folks dont want to learn, they wanna do things

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• Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, I’m pretty tech savvy, but I fell for a troll when setting up a CUDA cluster once. Typed some command I thought would remove an old driver, wiped the system and I started from scratch.

  I learned to understand every command before blindly typing it in.

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  • QWho@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Die you remember what was the trolls command was?

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sure it was some form of rf *, but I don’t remember the entire command.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a meme page… I would get this comment if it was in a linux community

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• NECOdes@burggit.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they’ll learn to not run any command they see from the internet, the hard way 😔

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