Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Samsy
      9·
      4 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.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        I understood the joke after seeing the command. It was getting the command from the joke that lost me. Cause I’d never have tried removing a language pack like that to begin with.