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Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I don't get it.

[-] JTheFox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

sudo rm -fr /

Add —no-preserve-root if you really want to make sure it’s gone! /j

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

--no-preserve-root is only required if you try to remove /. For /* I don't think it's needed.

[-] JTheFox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ah oops, I didn’t even catch that. Forgot that /* only matches to glob and thus wouldn’t try to remove /

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