Is "French Language Pack" a system component? 🫠
remove the "." to adress the root of the problem.
Omitting the dot removes Canadian French too
Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. \s
the greater good
Yarp
Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.
And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:
sudo rm -fr /*
I’m a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.
So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?
No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:
rm is the command to delete files and folders
-f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can
-r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.
/ is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.
Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.
/* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.
Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!
Thank you, kind person.
Or the less destructive, "Press Alt+F4 to triforce."
All I see is *******
hunter2
They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real
I mean, it does remove every language, that's for sure.
As long as it removes French it’s worth it.
Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add --no-preserve-root for that.
The complete removal of bloat.
Technically this does remove the French language pack.
Yes, but it seems the French language pack is a dependency for pretty much everything else! Who knew?
My keyboard and mouse speak French with my pc
Only if it's installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.
fr fr
If you are French, the same command works to remove your freedom pack.
Don't forget to remove the tuber preserves with --no-preserve-root
If you do /* you don't need that flag, as / will technically not get touched. Just everything in it
I wonder how many people have fallen for this
Whatever it takes to have a fr🤮nch-free system
I have last week, tho I wasn't tricked, but simply forgot the "." when cleaning an usb.
Why would you not just format the stick?
What distro were you using? I'd imagine some of the more user friendly distros have a warning?
....okay fine. I'll try it on mint when I get home.
fr fr
Parlez-vous f*ck you.
Va chier.
I thought this was stupid, how much space could a language pack take? Then I tried it and my system is at least %15 faster, turns out there is a bug in the dialogue disseminator preventing matriarchal ascension in the domestic power structure.
You do have to add —no-preserve-root though.
Medium. No fries, please.
Ever since Napoleon, the Fr*nch have tried to take over Linux to implement their régime baguette.
I love French strings in Python.
fr"Hello, {name}!"
Hint: :q!
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