submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

You are going to fuck this up. Don't come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.

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[–] 122 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"beyond repair" my ass, this is Linux

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  • [–] 144 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    I guess they meant "beyond repair if you don't have access to a live boot USB or the means to create one". Gotta remember who this warning is meant for. For those kind of users, "beyond repair" might technically be true.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    In modern Linux and assuming you did no pre-filtering or post-processing, no. machine-id systemd is a thing, fstabs commonly use device UUIDs now snd so forth with various subsystems. A laptop GRUB config commonly has the resume UUID set (sleep/hibernation stuff), a server typically has network configs tied to the hardware IDs, and on and on...

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  • [+] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Efi spec states it must be safe to delete all variables. It's only motherboards not adhering to the spec that are affected, effectively faulty hardware.
    If you do this on a mb from that era chances are nothing will happen, and if something does happen chances are it is recoverable. You'd have to have some truly bad luck on your choice of mb to have it be permanently bricked by that.

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  • [–] 96 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Linus Sebastian will ignore all text and type yes do as I say

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  • [–] 76 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Windows user: "Whatever", and keeps clicking around.

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  • [–] 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They probably don’t even read what the message has to say. When I’ve helped some family members with their computer I’ve seen something important pop up and they just closed it immediately. I asked what did that message say and they said β€œI don’t know I just closed it.” :/

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Mac and Linux users do this too. If they didn't then systems administration wouldn't be a career path.

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  • [–] 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's right tho...

    Even sudo says that: "With great power comes great responsibility."

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  • [–] 45 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I never ever had to run my file manager as root.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Iirc before dolphin would just refuse to run as root, I guess this is an improvement

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    You're not my supervisor.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Mario Sunshine stakes got higher

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago*

    I had to come back to this message several times over the course of the day to finally understand that you mean seeing this message in the emulator dolphin while playing Mario Sunshine ups the stake of the game.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    If I want to look at files in a directory I use ls and thats it

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    they should just say here be dragons

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Seems about three times wordier than necessary but ok

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's true! Dolphin breaks constantly, don't give it a gun!

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