"You mean if I delete data, then it's gone? No matter what platform?"

Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data

rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.

Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.

There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it's corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.

I'm not going to get angry when I tell my PC to delete a file and it actually does it.

Not with GNU rm, no.

$ su -
# rm -rf —no-preserve-root /

Should do the trick. (Obviously don’t try it unless you know what you are doing and know what may happen when it hits your EFI variables.)

I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.

Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn't remove people's data that one time. And hey, their so beloved --no-preserve-root didn't prevent that from happening. :D

I love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.

If something like del C:\*.* somehow ended up deleting your D: drive too, we wouldn't stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.

rm shouldn't exist at its current form. Full stop.