"beyond repair" my ass, this is Linux
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With this character's file's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game backup to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
Linus Sebastian will ignore all text and type yes do as I say
Windows user: "Whatever", and keeps clicking around.
They probably donβt even read what the message has to say. When Iβve helped some family members with their computer Iβve seen something important pop up and they just closed it immediately. I asked what did that message say and they said βI donβt know I just closed it.β :/
With modern windows error messages being absolutely useless "something went wrong :/" tier messages I can't even blame them that much anymore.
That's usage for a non tech literate user
They will force every block out of the way of what they want to do, and if it stops working, they call someone.
Mac and Linux users do this too. If they didn't then systems administration wouldn't be a career path.
It's right tho...
Even sudo says that: "With great power comes great responsibility."
pssh, it also says "this incident will be reported" when I get my password wrong.
How times have changed. If you have used Windows 98, you were always the administrator. Your five years old brother could actually go around deleting random system files.
https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/computer-old-man-my-computer-delete-my-computer-delete-gif-12348422
You can still delete system files on Windows but you need double secret admin rights.
I never ever had to run my file manager as root.
Same here, but I can understand why someone might want to. For many people, even those that are comfortable on the command line, a GUI is a more comfortable experience. And, I have (rarely) needed to do some filesystem management as not my primary user account.
It's nice to have a GUI for those things sometimes rather than a command line for everything. If you're doing things right, your daily login shouldn't have access to modify system settings or read sensitive logs. But troubleshooting requires that often and ls, vim, cat, tail, etc., can become cumbersome compared to a GUI file manager and proper GUI text editor like Kate or Gedit.
I installed something that I got very disappointed, and wanted to get rid of it
the script itself tried to rm something in a directory but failed, sudo dolphin didn't work, so I found out how to delete stuff from... I think /bin or /usr/local/bin ?
That needed me to run as admin/root so I did it. I deleted 1 file, the leftover artifact of the thing I didn't want installed. I then stopped using dolphin as admin so that I wouldn't break everything forever.
Iirc before dolphin would just refuse to run as root, I guess this is an improvement
this is why I moved everyone in my family to atomic fedora. This is almost entirely not a thinng there. To be fair while all of them regularly fucked up windows, only my mom ever fucked up regular linux distros.
Mario Sunshine stakes got higher
IMO an application written with a graphical toolkit and connected to a graphical server like X or Wayland shouldn't be run as root, as these millions of lines of code that the program may use through libraries is a very large potential attack vector.
This should be done through the terminal if you value security.
they should just say here be dragons
Seems about three times wordier than necessary but ok
It's true! Dolphin breaks constantly, don't give it a gun!


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