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I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows (www.theverge.com)
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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don't have a VM handy to test, but without the "--no-preserve-root" flag it should give an error.

(Don't actually run that command on a machine you care about, I'm only 80% confident.)

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, it absolutely won't let you

[–] textik@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Goddamn this mf really did hold the gun up to his own head and pulled the trigger just to prove it would go click.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he did it in a vm

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I'm on bare metal :)

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

You are ice cold metal, my friend 🤘

[–] ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Gotta test the guardrails sometimes...

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

could this be based on the distro?

or is it built into the kernel?

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

It was made default for rm command in 2006.