Linux even lets you fully remove the French language!
sudo rm -fr /
Believe it or not the, the same command will remove all languages from the system.
r and f are just flags, meaning recursive and force, so it doesn’t matter the order
So it will remove everything in the / directory and all its subfolders without further asking.
Would it destroy or brick my device? Or just delete the OS and all my data?
You don’t need a bootloader if you don’t reboot
on a serious note, is possible to never reboot?
like an high availability server that can’t never go down, how do they manage kernel updates? *
- yes i know that now there is kube and docker etc and you can update the container with zero downtime. but how they did it 10 years ago?
Kernel live patching, which basically rewires kernel functions at runtime, lets you update the kernel without rebooting. I don’t remember how old that is though.
In fairness to Windows, stopping users from doing really dumb shit is a feature if you’re family tech support.
Linux will also stop regular users from breaking the system.
If you’re family tech support, making them superusers is probably a mistake.
I have a Raspberry Pi and twice I uninstalled something with the goal of reinstalling it, only to realize that what I uninstalled was required to install anything. And I broke the desktop several times over.
I now use apt install --reinstall, I learned my lesson.
I wish it was like this. In reality Grub’s suicidal tendencies catch me off guard.
When I was a noob I used arch for work (btw) and grub constantly broke in dire times.
Now I no longer use grub.
