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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not a fan of this one. It is kind of funny but, I'm also just too worried that some gullible Linux newbies will take this as real advice and be caused great emotional, and potentially financial, tragedy.

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, not really anymore. Now you need to run it with the option --no-preserve-root flag or something like that in order for it to do irrivokable damage

[–] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

Not if you do "/*". The warning only appears if you try to remove "/"

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You could always just reinstall from a usb boot drive lol