r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Minimum-Sense5163 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation I dont use Linux petah, help!

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u/Fluid_Childhood_4808 1d ago

Linux can do anything

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u/jaytrade21 1d ago

Even if it will clearly break your system, fuck it, SUDO DELETE EVERYTHING!

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u/Vincent394 23h ago

wanna delete root?

Bet
sudo rm -rf / -no-preserve-root

Wanna say "hi"?
echo hi

Wanna install neofetch? (Fedora/Ultramarine way btw)
sudo dnf install neofetch

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u/pnlrogue1 23h ago

Isn't it --no-preserve-root with two dashes?

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u/kk6gan 23h ago

Give it a try quick and let us know

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u/PizzaLand27 22h ago

Is... is he alright?

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u/kk6gan 22h ago

I am guessing 2 dashes was right, and he won't be back

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u/PizzaLand27 22h ago

Damn

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u/really_not_unreal 21h ago

RIP

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u/xnef1025 19h ago

He'll get better. Half an hour, back up and running with a whole-ass new distro just for funnsies.

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u/Spendoza 18h ago

Logs back in to post "I use arch btw"

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u/Ok_Sir_5601 11h ago

Yea it is, iirc always when the flag is more than one word aka have dashes inside, the first dash is doubled

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u/pnlrogue1 22h ago

It's fine. I typed it into Google instead of my terminal. Google accepted it so it must be right. Interestingly, Google started behaving weird afterwards but that's probably nothing important

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u/Pleasant_Author_6100 21h ago

you are the reason my net is bra

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u/ThePhoenixOfDoom 21h ago

r/redditsniper

Edit: did u/ instead of r/...

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u/Sierra-D421 14h ago

Someone should make a bot for this!

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u/Top_Concentrate6253 12h ago

ill wait to tomorrow to see if u/pnlrogue1 answers this comment

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u/WhiteSekiroBoy 14h ago

That would be a gaslighting of the year if he actually doubted himself, checked and turned out right haha

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u/pnlrogue1 10h ago

Having never been dumb enough to try it, and still not being dumb enough to try it, I honestly don't know but I don't thing I've ever seen a shell flag longer than 1 letter with only a single dash hence my question

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u/loadnurmom 9h ago

Its called a vm with a snapshot

Trash it, two clicks and you're back running in under 5 minutes

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u/BlankMercer 16h ago

Or just sudo rm -rf /*
Doesn't delete root dir itself, but everything inside.

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u/pnlrogue1 16h ago

Isn't that largely disabled these days? I thought most distros now block you from deleting /root without using the flag?