Linux does let you fuck around and find out lol
But then you find out, and you learn, and we become better users for it.
Don’t be so sure.
True, I only broke my boot twice… Never again
rm -rf /Please, if you do that
rm / -rfand you’re really looking into that path to make sure it’s correct.
initrd? Sounds like bloat, I’m deleting it.
I’ve debloated my OS down to a typewriter.
Smith Corona Linux.
Pencil and paper for me boys. I’d do cave painting, there are no caves around me.
You could’ve just installed slack
Ahhh, sackcloth and ashes! Tarballs. Yum!
Linux is the parent that let’s their child put a fork into the electrical socket and then says “Have you learned anything?”
*lets
Get your damn hands off my Lets!
“Am afraid you can’t do that”
Sigh “sudo uninstall the bootloader”
Yes, do as I say!
Not going to lie. Many years ago on one of my first Linux installs that I actually built up to be more than just a dev playground, I deleted my bootloader… it just let me do that, no scary confirm. That is the day I learned Linux is guardrails-off, lol.
My personal hurdle as teenager always was having to keep windows on same disk for my sisters to use while struggling to install Linux besides it so I could have that semi transparent terminal like in the movies. Can’t even count how many times I’ve bricked bootloader because of that, but when it worked I felt like I’m a president
Windows is the best program to use if you want to accidentally lose your boot ability. I haven’t bothered to try dual boot for 10 years because I got tired of the bullshit.
Really especially at the my teenage times, there was no Google to help you, no mentors to guide you. You got some shitty homemade linux distro nobody ever heard of on CD from a friend and only way was through trial and error. Funny times
It is not a problem if they are on different disks, though? I hope so :)
… and the irony that Windows can also fuck up your bootloader in a dual boot scenario.
EatingOnions is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Technically speaking you don’t need a bootloader to boot Linux, with uefi of course you can use efistub and just boot from there but you could also have a separate Linux distro on a USB stick than chroot into your main one. Hell even if you uninstall the kernel there are still ways to repair the system.
Edge is cancer, it randomly opens and takes minutes to load before recognizing closing it.
In the old days task manager would close it, but task manager is now worthless. God I fucking hate Microsoft
You know, as much as I don’t love AI, a small model sitting in the terminal of noob installations might be a useful thing.
update graphics driver
:hey, that’s not a command, but if you’re looking to do that, you should … (step by step process)
That’s actually a good idea, just a tiny local model just to help you learn how to work in a terminal. I would have loved that when I first made the jump, the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.
I’ve been avoiding RTFM for 30 years. command --help at best. Whoever writes the manual pages and I just don’t see eye to eye on documentation.
command - description
20 examples of common usage
exhaustive list of options with a short paragraph each and acceptable usage.
that’s what I want.
It seems either they want to write you a 50 page novel mentioning random options or just give you 250 options with loose references of what’s not allowed with what.
I’ve been throwing a lot of my shell scripts into llm and asking for best practice updates, it’s shocking how much cool shit it out there that i’ve never even considered.
today’s gem:
script -q ~/command.log
do a bunch of crap
exit
script get’s written
put that together with SSH.
Now you log ssh sessions on all servers to one file. You can go back and farm that for history.
script that out so that on exit it expunges export, sql and vault type passwords/keys.
EXAMPLES sections should be way more common!
They do exist, a lot of man pages have them.
They’re at the BOTTOM though, for some reason (probably because they’re kinda an afterthought, which is itself weird). It’d be nice to have them at the top.
– Frost
the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.
Ya, there just gatekeeping skum that want to feel better than everyone else.
🥲
On Windows the OS pisses you off. On Linux the only one you can be mad at is yourself because Linux does exactly what you tell it todo
Missed opportunity to draw a penguin face.
Just make sure to reinstall a bootloader before the next reboot. Or bring one one a USB stick when you need it. Or just copy me and boot me in a VM. What do I care? I’m just a kernel.
