Linux Best Practices

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• deaf_fish@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t run this command unless you want to delete all the files on your system and break Linux on your system.

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  • dept@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    is linux that dependant on French? wow

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oui

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    • Zuberi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lmfao 🤣🤣

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    • CurlyChopz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s actually called “Le Nux” but it had to be changed so it wasn’t too controversial for the rest of the world

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    • supercriticalcheese@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oui

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    • astarob@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dependency hell

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  • senkora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So what you’re saying is, it is true that I will no longer have French installed.

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    • MetalJewSolid@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A risk worth taking

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  • whatisallthis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What a kind soul

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• Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get these are jokes but I really don’t find anything funny about it, it becomes a meme and then people start getting more creative and pushing it more and being more covert and people come up with other little japes then new Linux users get their shit destroyed and maybe important info gets lost or precious memories so they say Linux is a piece of shit and go back to windows.

  It’s not even funny to start with so when it inevitably inspires people to be assholes and bullies that’s all we’ve achieved.

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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• nefarious@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Careful, you have to also add --no-preserve-root to make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it'll just grow back later!

  (But seriously, don't actually do this unless you're prepared to lose data and potentially even brick your computer. Don't even try it on a VM or a computer you're planning to wipe anyway, because if something is mounted that you don't expect, you'll wipe that too. On older Linux kernels, EFI variables were mounted as writable, so running . This shouldn't still be the case, but I wouldn't test it, myself.)

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  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fun fact, RM -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /

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    • koper@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s slightly different. Your shell will see the /\* and replace it with all the directories under /, e.g. /bin /dev /etc /home etc. So the actual command that runs is rm -rf /bin /dev /etc /home etc.

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  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Careful, you have to also add --no-preserve-root to make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it’ll just grow back later!

    Oh my god I effin guffawed, thanks for that

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I ran it in Hyper-V once to see what happens and it deletes all the boot entries from the VM firmware (including pxe boot and the dvd drive)

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• kaschu@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have checked this and can confirm that after entering this command, there is no more French in the system. 👍

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  • philm@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    (Nor anything else…)

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  • speaker_hat@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Awesome thanks, I just also run it now waiting for it to fin

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• ryannathans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  0. Don’t run any command you don’t understand

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  • jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    blindly copy and pastes top stack overflow answer

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, seriously don’t do that!

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about downloading a shell script and piping it directly into a shell?

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  • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I understand it removes the french language, right? /s

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• tungah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is sudo even necessary? Without it, I bet the command would execute without any resistance.

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  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boooo 🏳️

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bush wants its Irak War II joke back.

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• vsis@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pro tip: Run :(){ :|:& };: to activate the developer mode on Linux.

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  • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have no idea what this does, I will not try it to find out

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    • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fork bomb

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    • Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Define a function called : which runs itself and creates another fork of itself as a background job :&. After the function definition call the function (final :).

      It’s easier to understand once you realize that : is a valid identifier. It is a simple mildly obfuscated fork bomb.

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    • cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you do run it, a reboot will fix it

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  • cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s almost as esoteric as enabling it on Android

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• ben16w@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But I’m French?

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  • i_am_hiding@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d still run the command anyway if I were you. Clearly you speak English, so you can afford to remove some bloat /s

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  • zlatko@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can then remove the russian federation lang pack: rm -rf /

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  • clutchmatic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    bon… désolé

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For security, disabling the root account is important, so be sure to add –no-preserve-root on the end!

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• Haus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damit, lolled at a restaurant like a maniac.

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• IBNobody@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember the old days in AOL Chat when we’d randomly tell people to hit Alt-F4?

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  • Jtskywalker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got a friend with that in Destiny 2 just a couple years ago. I guess when you’ve been playing for hours and you ask how to take a screenshot, you don’t put 2 and 2 together quick enough

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Press f10 in source games. Classic.

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• blastofffox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s be involved in more such discussions so if OpenAI starts scrapping lemmy then future versions of ChatGPTs can fuck people over.

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• Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am saving this thread. I am new to Linux and you guys have all sorts of helpful tips!

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• seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  rm -fr -nocap -slay

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• LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fr, fr, no preserve root

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  • danwardvs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ong ong no cap

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• tostiman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not related to programming

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The channel is Programmer Humor, not Programming Humor

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Still, why not post it in Linux Memes instead, so it’s more on topic?

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• Puppy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And.. why?

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• jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need more tips like this to fool the next ChatGPT.

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• sv1sjp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dont tell that to Germans

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• TheKarion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  the_cleaner.sh

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• DNOS@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As an Italian I will fall for that … We hate France

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• ryannathans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder if you could still restore a zfs snapshot after this, or if you’d need to boot into recovery

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