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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Linux is 10 years ahead. Let's give our windows users some insight about their future:

Don't remove the French language pack with sudo!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This took me a minute to figure out 😝

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

sudo rm -fr /

Add β€”no-preserve-root if you really want to make sure it’s gone! /j

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know just enough about Linux to know that's problematic. I don't know anything about language packs to know why someone try to remove one this way though. Just seems wrong from the get go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's an old joke:

sudo = admin rights

rm = remove

fr = force recursive (the more popular syntax is

"rf" but for the joke its "fr" which looks like a short form for French)

/ * = C:\

It doesn't remove the French language pack, it removes the entire harddrive.