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
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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.
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Linux does not "let you fuck around" in fact its says "you are root and if you root I assume u know what you do!"
And yeah i learned that the hard way when it didnt threw any errors at me doing stuff as root...
10/10 would do it again!
I've forgotten i was root, thought I was back to normal user, fat fingered a command, and removed tons of directories. I actually learn more fixing my fuck ups than when I reading books. Nothing like pressure to really focus you!
The best teacher is a fuck up
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initrd? Sounds like bloat, I'm deleting it.
I only need the internet, what is this
A mistake in Linux can cause it to uninstall its bootloader.
A mistake in Windows can also cause it to uninstalling Linux's bootloader.
Windows caused me to install Linux bootloader π€·
Windows IS a mistake.
Speaking from experience, windows will gladly uninstall the linux bootloader without mistakes or errors involved. Pretty sure that's just what a successful update is for microslop.
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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.
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Linux is the parent that let's their child put a fork into the electrical socket and then says "Have you learned anything?"
*lets
If you say so!
Linux is the parent tells their child "Lets put a fork into the electrical socket" and then says "Have you learned anything?"
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You don't have to use it it under uefi anyway.
I'm going to mount efivars as rw and delete them
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.
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Yeah... uninstall the bootloader... I may just do that. Good idea. That'll be fun... a little extra security hurdle to hop over to be able to boot into the machine. Doesn't really do much to the attack surface, but eliminates about half of the dumb attackers. Glad for the freedom to have unique innovative security arrangements. Thankyou Free Software.
"Am afraid you can't do that"
Sigh "sudo uninstall the bootloader"
EatingOnions is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
... and the irony that Windows can also fuck up your bootloader in a dual boot scenario.
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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.
I once unistalled edge and now Teams app doesn't work too. So I unistalled it too. Now I use Teams on Firefox
That strategy works when you uninstall Windows too. :D
Teams on Firefox for me doesn't recognize my perfectly functional webcam that every other meeting software uses just fine lol.
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
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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
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I mean you can delete system32 in windows tho
Yeah with my linux dual boot. But on win?
IIRC they introduced copy on write and snapshots for all system files with Vista and since then you cannot alter them (with regular rights - NTAUTHORITY\SYSTEM might still be able to do so)
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