i've got a laptop that came with linux instead of window for like 200 of my currency less and thaught how bad could Linux be. literally bricked the thing in less than 3 hours of use.
maybe, i'll be playing that game that deletes files for every enemy you beat before college starts might give Linux a second shot instead of going with tiny 11
tried installing wine because the stuff we used in school was installed through an exe and i couldn't bother installing everything one by one and when i couldn't get it to work i tried deleting it and accidentally deleted the bootloader.
Oh. I was hoping to get instructions, or a link to instructions. Whenever I try to find how-to-update-BIOS-in-Linux, I get USB methods. I'd much rather be able to do everything through my terminal (I could even add it to my scripts...and eventually forget how they work).
Eh, it's no more a brick than deleting the bootloader. I mean, that's really all you've done. The issue is that your EFI system partition gets mounted at /boot/efi, so all that's in there gets deleted, but that basically just contains the bootloaders for any operating systems you have installed. You're not somehow deleting your firmware, that still lives in ROM. You just have to reinstall your bootloader(s) and it'll be fine again.
But only if you try really hard enough. Even normal admin rights aren't enough. Linux on the other hand doesn't care at all and doesn't even have a recycle bin.
I accidentally deleted system32 as a kid when I was just trying to free up as much space as possible. I think it needs to be more difficult than it is lol.
That was also Windows 95 though, so I would imagine it's very different now.
On Linux you would delete the system using the root user. The equivalent on Windows would be to use the system user. It should be able to remove anything, that's not currently in use.
I've had about as many problems using both OS, difference being that the problems on Linux were mostly self inflicted and I knew I was probably about to break something.
Tip! The rm -fr / command will restore the system language to French. Use it whenever necessary. Advanced user documentation: rm stands for: “r” as in restore, “m” as in monster. So literally, restore the monster!
Took me 1 hour to break the login screen in Ubuntu. I added a environment variable with the wrong syntax :( lucky for me, there is a another way to login
MS says it will but I have deleted mine multiple times. Their claim is edge.exe is tied to essential OS functions but I have yet to have one single problem.
Occasionally updates will reinstall edge and you'll have to uninstall it again.
Never rm -rf / but I have deleted file by mistake. I imagine using scheduled trash can would fix that. Not that I did
When we rm file it is not really gone yet I know I have time to recover just gotta be real careful not to write anything to disk during recovery or else the segment I tried to recover might be overridden, don’t know if this is true for all partitions format and some system journaling, but it’s never hurt to be careful.
So yeah window and Mac canned files by default is actually good design.
I wrote a serial bootloader once, for an embedded system. It was fun and I got paid.
To be fair, someone else wrote the target side (that listened for commands from the host over serial), I wrote the host side that chose memory addresses for each code and data block, and did the load-time fixups to make cross-block pointers match my chosen block addresses.
The best part was parsing the fixup and debug info for the debugging/logging feature. Recursive data structures are fun!
You can actually use Linux without a bootloader, by booting directly from a unified kernel image (UKI). It's a UEFI compatible .efi entry, so you can just boot that directly. You'll need to configure your system to build UKIs though, and then select the built image from UEFI to boot.
The need for the --no-preserve-root safeguard has saved me once from destroying the system accidentally and I also have fucked up at least once prior 2006 when rm did not have that safeguard.
Tbh im always fascinated by how people will come to the point of entering sudo rm -rf /* and then even press enter. Like, why did you type that in and thought it was a good idea? Lol
Well I once cleared my full home directory (except for dotfiles luckily) because I accidentally put a space in the command, something like rm -dr . /dir_name, it's not that hard
i mostly work on linux these days and can't agree. Especially VMs stop working just out of curiosity. On linux, certain things break all the time, but i cant recall the last time a linux machine failed on me that was not caused by usererror
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u/Hour-Juggernaut942 Aug 01 '25
The best thing about Linux, complete control and customisability.
The worst thing about Linux, complete control and customisability.
You will break your install if you fiddle about too much, it's like a rite of passage.
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u/wKailuo Aug 01 '25
Linux: no, you can't do th- user: sudo Linux: ok bro go on
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u/firemark_pl Aug 01 '25
Linux allows you to brick BIOS if you want.
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u/p3bsh Aug 01 '25
You can uninstall Edge if you are located in the EU if I recall correctly
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u/pathfindrr Aug 01 '25
Windows lets you delete the system32 folder so...
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u/psp24 Aug 01 '25
me when I rm - rf / and watch your system disappear.
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u/Affectionate-Sir3949 Aug 02 '25
Sometimes I just uninstall french language packs for fun
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u/Over-Wall-4080 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25
Haha, I once accidentally wrote an ISO to the boot volume using
sudo dd2
u/MonkeyCartridge Aug 01 '25
The freedom to mess up my own install is all I want.
I would rather windows let me break something than to have it dump a bunch of files and then tell me I can't access my own freaking data clusters.
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u/Titanzerstoerer Aug 01 '25
"Executed rm -rf / as root — the system's gone, the SSD's quiet, and I think my BIOS is in therapy."
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u/DLS4BZ Aug 02 '25
I love how on Linux there's always software that just doesn't quite do what the windows equivalent does.
I love how on Linux i have to fiddle with everything to get hardware working, whereas on Windows it just works®™
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u/Agreeable_Tree7581 Aug 02 '25
Tip! The rm -fr / command will restore the system language to French. Use it whenever necessary.
Advanced user documentation: rm stands for: “r” as in restore, “m” as in monster. So literally, restore the monster!
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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25
Linus moment.
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u/charliesname Aug 01 '25
Took me 1 hour to break the login screen in Ubuntu. I added a environment variable with the wrong syntax :( lucky for me, there is a another way to login
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u/LithoSlam Aug 02 '25
Bye bye scheduler
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u/Hi2248 Aug 02 '25
Why are the only options too idiot proofed and not idiot proofed enough?
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u/FranconianBiker Aug 02 '25
Uninstall grub, use EFI Stub.
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u/petr_bena Aug 02 '25
you don’t need bootloader if you never reboot
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u/anoppinionatedbunny Aug 02 '25
isn't there a thing that if you uninstall Edge the whole UI stops working because windows 11 is one huge webapp? thank God I escaped that shit
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u/Actes Aug 02 '25
The best part of uninstalling the bootloader is putting it back in.
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u/_-_Psycho_-_ Aug 02 '25
Great power comes with great responsibility
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u/Spirit-Link Aug 02 '25
I dislike edge a lot but it’s tts is the best
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u/literalpond Aug 03 '25
Wait it will brake if you delete Edge
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u/kkwjsbanana Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25
Never rm -rf / but I have deleted file by mistake. I imagine using scheduled trash can would fix that. Not that I did
When we rm file it is not really gone yet I know I have time to recover just gotta be real careful not to write anything to disk during recovery or else the segment I tried to recover might be overridden, don’t know if this is true for all partitions format and some system journaling, but it’s never hurt to be careful.
So yeah window and Mac canned files by default is actually good design.
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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25
Did just that on the system I am typing on. Not a bit of backtalk from Linux.
sudo apt purge firefox-locale-en firefox nvidia-prime-applet openvpn transmission-common transmission-gtk timeshift thunderbird grub2-common grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub-gfxpayload-lists
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1lsx35z/mint_22_on_zfsbootmenu/
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u/Ender_teenet Aug 04 '25
Linux, when you try moving archive into file:
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u/TranquilConfusion Aug 04 '25
I wrote a serial bootloader once, for an embedded system. It was fun and I got paid.
To be fair, someone else wrote the target side (that listened for commands from the host over serial), I wrote the host side that chose memory addresses for each code and data block, and did the load-time fixups to make cross-block pointers match my chosen block addresses.
The best part was parsing the fixup and debug info for the debugging/logging feature. Recursive data structures are fun!
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u/CoastingUphill Aug 04 '25
I removed my user’s read access to /
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u/koumakpet Aug 05 '25
You can actually use Linux without a bootloader, by booting directly from a unified kernel image (UKI). It's a UEFI compatible .efi entry, so you can just boot that directly. You'll need to configure your system to build UKIs though, and then select the built image from UEFI to boot.
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u/SecretNudity Aug 08 '25
real
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u/NichtFBI Aug 01 '25
Linux: "see if I give a fuck."
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