Comment on Linux Best Practices

• 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 Unless you are on a way out of date system, you need to add the --no-preserce-root flag as well.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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    • Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      God you just gave me flashbacks of trying to delete files that I was only 60% sure of what they did. Just so I could have room to install some custome rad new mouse cursor icons.

      With only a little bit of malware on the side

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