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    [โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (47 children)

    Im about to take the same plunge into Linux. Any tips for a new comer?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    don't listen to people who tell you to
    rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And what exactly does that command do?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Deletes all the files in the root-dir recursively (needs sudo).
    Without sudo all user-accessible files will be removed.
    This will also affect all mounted drives (like USB-Drives, ...) and on some motherbords can also corrupt the UEFI.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If the UEFI is corrupted is there a way to even boot a Live Environment?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    If you run a faulty UEFI-implementation then rm can turn you PC into a decorative pice of PCB.
    See this answer.

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