• dustyData@lemmy.world
    1283·
    2 years ago

    People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux’s fault, and that the OS doesn’t work.

    • Gogo Sempai@programming.dev
      22·
      2 years ago

      They need to noobify that prompt further, something like “Yes, break my system!”. Even Linus wouldn’t fall for that (I hope)!

    • z500@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      Honestly I once did this to my desktop environment because I saw a huge list of packages and ignored it because I thought they were packages that could be upgraded, not that it was going to uninstall my fucking desktop lol

  • phx@lemmy.ca
    1261·
    2 years ago
    • Login as a user.
    • Delete the user while still logged in
    • Run command

    You should get a message “you don’t exist, go away”

    Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with “deluser $USER” and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      29·
      2 years ago

      My local deluser checks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.

      I’m not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.

      • phx@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 years ago

        Well you could manually edit /etc/password and shadow I suppose

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      381·
      2 years ago

      While it was funny, it probably is for the best. Especially if a kid uses the system it might legitimately scare the shit out of them lol

      I wouldn’t be surprised if a kid thought the police was gonna break in now

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        12·
        2 years ago

        At least it answers the question whom it will be reported to. In all likelihood the administrator is me anyway, at least on my personal devices. People won’t worry anymore that it will be reported to the police or, heaven forbid, to Santa Claus.

    • fishsayhelo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      EFL is an absolute crime against programmer-kind, even if the errors are, admittedly, hilarious. can assert that they are not so funny when you find them deeeeep in some god-forsaken legacy codebase that’s seen more null *s than git commits lol

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
      415·
      2 years ago

      “It’s possible I did something wrong.” 🤣
      Like not read the warning that said that he was about to uninstall the desktop? Or to continue only if he knew what he was doing? He also earlier liked to talk about “red flags”, but somehow needing to type in “Yes, do as I say!” wasn’t one to him. I’m supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?

      • cesium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        165·
        2 years ago

        What makes you think your average Windows user that is trying out Linux for the first time wouldn’t have faced the same problem? I never understood why people criticized Linus for this video. After all, the video was supposed to see whether Linux is a viable alternative for Windows users (specifically gamers).

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
          212·
          2 years ago

          Yes. People have been trained to ignore warnings like this.

          Android makes you jump through a hoop and tries to scare you when you want to install apps from outside the playstore.

          Windows has some similarly serious-sounding warning messages.

          People have got used to rolling their eyes at warnings when installing software. Like it or not, that’s the way that it is. Users are used to seeing a scary warning when installing, and they’re used to just powering through it without much thought.

          Linus was following a tutorial on the PopOS website, followed the instructions, and borked his install.

          I have problems with LTT in general, but the PopOS thing was entirely understandable, and people pretending that wasn’t a usability problem in PopOS are delusional.

        • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
          16·
          2 years ago

          I agree with that other reply.

          Linus knew just enough to be dangerous.

          My experience with most Windows users and their first encounter with using a Linux terminal is every single warning/error they see no matter how mundane is a big deal.

          Things like the boot text or a random apt install on Linux will often display various warnings or even “errors” that are really of no concern but ime tend to freak out new users.

          Linus is in that narrow band where he doesn’t really know shit but knows just enough to be falsely confident and ignore all the warnings/errors instead of just the irrelevant ones

        • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
          51·
          2 years ago

          He’s at the bottom end of ‘knows just enough to be dangerous’, and people make fun of people in that range. The vast majority of gamers and Windows users fall well outside that narrow band. The average Windows user who is scared of the terminal wouldn’t ignore several warnings and type in confirmation phrases. They wouldn’t have even gotten to that point because to get there you need to copy/paste things from a website without understanding what it does.

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 years ago

    Your system ate a SPARC! Gah

    What does this mean? Does it has something to do with… I don’t know, the Sun SPARC CPUs?

  • chandz05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been messing around with Linux VMs and have gotten kernel panic a lot lately. Always gives me a chuckle