Worse is managing to type your password and confirm password identically incorrectly. It takes the same 15 minutes, but also 15 minutes of not being able to believe it.
Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process 😅🤣. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you're not careful enough. Fun times.
I've always loved Linux, even when it was kicking my ass. I can't imagine approaching it with the attitude "Ugh, I have to force myself to use this thing, and I know that it's going to frustrate me".
That sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because everybody has cognitive biases. Since you expect it to be frustrating, you're going to remember all the times that it is and forget the times when it isn't.
Get on it. If you can manage to daily drive it for a few months I think you'll learn a lot. When I jumped ship I only knew basic commands like cd and ls.
What kind of things do you need to do? For software development my experience is that it's just install and you can start working. Maybe one tutorial to get kubernetes running locally.
Originally, rm would merrily nuke your whole filesystem if you told it to. At some point, someone thought that was a pretty stupid default behaviour, so they added that flag to change the default to not nuke your entire filesystem. However, they made the change backwards compatible in case someone still needed the old behaviour. I can imagine in a container or throwaway environment, it might be vaguely reasonable to expect to be able the blat /.
See also:
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
Always remove the French language pack from the root dir
fr
If its freshly installed, you still remember how to do it again... 15 minutes and its installed again.
Worse is managing to type your password and confirm password identically incorrectly. It takes the same 15 minutes, but also 15 minutes of not being able to believe it.
Based on a true story.
True. After 10 I decided I had enough and rebooted.
Gotta delete the French language pack
Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process 😅🤣. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you're not careful enough. Fun times.
It's things like this that prevent me from using Linux more.
I force myself to use it for projects where it's an option because I feel I need to learn it better but I kind of dread it every time.
Inevitably I'm stuck frustrated reading conflicting guides from years ago and wondering just how badly I'm going to fuck things up this time.
Sometimes it all feels so esoteric.
I've always loved Linux, even when it was kicking my ass. I can't imagine approaching it with the attitude "Ugh, I have to force myself to use this thing, and I know that it's going to frustrate me".
That sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because everybody has cognitive biases. Since you expect it to be frustrating, you're going to remember all the times that it is and forget the times when it isn't.
It's a chicken and egg situation.
It's frustrating because I don't know it, and I don't learn it because it's frustrating.
Get on it. If you can manage to daily drive it for a few months I think you'll learn a lot. When I jumped ship I only knew basic commands like
cdandls.Can't, really. Have several critical Windows only apps.
What kind of things do you need to do? For software development my experience is that it's just install and you can start working. Maybe one tutorial to get kubernetes running locally.
Generally deploying some kind of service.
Excuse me, but that type of foolishness requires
-- no-preserve-rootnowadaysNot in this case. It's
*/here so it expands to directories at current location. I'm sure that's a typo thoughI'm not brave enough to test it on my distro, so I'll take your word on that lol
You can do
echo */andecho /*to see how they expand. Alsorm -rf /already is enough without the*as it already is recursive*is there to bypass the need for--no-preserve-rootrm -rf /needs--no-preserve-rooton GNU coreutils, I think.why do they even have that lever
Originally,
rmwould merrily nuke your whole filesystem if you told it to. At some point, someone thought that was a pretty stupid default behaviour, so they added that flag to change the default to not nuke your entire filesystem. However, they made the change backwards compatible in case someone still needed the old behaviour. I can imagine in a container or throwaway environment, it might be vaguely reasonable to expect to be able the blat/.See also:
yes
I'm aware of how recursive force remove works. I'm just kidding around.
Anybody brave enough to tell the MS rep this on patch night??
(You have backups, right?)
it's/*
The one time when misstyping your password was a good thing
You emptied your home directory?
Depending on where that terminal is open, you probably haven't really done much damage
Do people actually do this?
I enjoy hearing the word foolish after such a long time!
im gonna have to obtain an testing laptop for this
make a snapshot of it and then just run the command to your heart's content
Wouldn't
rm -rf /eat /home, too? That doesn't get backed up in a snapshot...