Lol, they locked all the posts for the community

Keep it polite, folks. No personal attacks against others, especially speculations regarding mental or emotional capabilities.

Lol don't give them any attention. It's the same 3 people who didn't get loved enough during their formative years and cannot distinguish between good attention and bad attention

Some of those posts are decent jokes to be honest. Some are just desperate/scare tactics though.

linux is terrible because removing the entire root folder can brick your system it should be more like windows where removing system32 can brick your system

How is this not a joke community, like the Lunduke videos?

I love how he complains about being "brigaded" when the most comments on any post in the community is like 8.

Gotta protect the microsoft stocks.

Funny that there’s a meme against open source on lemmy

For whatever reason, Reddit's algorithm decided I should start seeing that community, and I've always struggled to figure out if it's just Linux users shitposting, or if there are people out there who really just have huge boners for Microsoft

In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst

Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879

rm -rf / can brick your system

Well good thing there's basically no legitimate reason to ever even use rm -rf / anyway so GNU version is perfectly within its rights to refuse to do that by default, am I right? If you know what you're doing and want to nuke partitions, that's what cfdisk and mkfs are for, dammit

I’m not even all the way switched over and I got my only comment deleted. I apparently broke the rule about only being allowed to hate.

I just realized that I've already blocked both of the mods at some point in the past. The community looks really dead without their posts.

One of the reasons I dont like local moderators being perpetually in charge of some communities. We should have a way to vote out unwanted mods. Or at least have term limits.

Most Linux haters have skill issue. I mean you can apply a complete Windows-mimicking skin to Ubuntu or Mint and use that

Madthumbs finally got some psychiatric help huh?

Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they're entitled to do whatever they like in their community... within instance rules... Or is this some intervention by someone else?

Its one guy(whos the mod) posting a bunch of stupid shit there. A bunch of the posts are just "i compared you to a minority group so i win the argument". Some of the "memes" are so badly made that it actually shows you problems with windows more than linux.

They forgot sudo. Also, why not throw in a -v flag to see your dreams die in real time!

I do not have proof but this guy has definitely various accounts on Reddit.

So that meme reminds me of a prank.

There was once I had the same exact laptop as a buddy, but wasn't using it anymore. He was finishing his degree and just about to turn in like 8 papers/assignments and had a ton of work saved on it. So I wiped my laptop and installed fresh Kubuntu, and then swapped the drives when he wasn't looking. Then I pretended to have done him a favor since he had been having intermittent windows problems.

He was livid but was trying so hard to be kind, loool. Made it better when I could swap it right back and everything was there

Work switched from windows 10 to 11. Think im the only person who read all the terms and conditions before upgrading thier work machine. If you can honsetly agree to all of that, then go for it.

Wow, I assumed this was just some lighthearted trolling. I think they might actually be upset.

Hilarious lmao

ngl some of them are pretty funny

This sucks. I was about to sub and contribute.

I honestly think the whole Linux community should be reading that sub rather than acting like Linux is perfect. Right now desktop Linux is for very tech savvy people who are willing to put in the time to learn and fix, and it’s for their grandmas who only need a web browser and maybe a word processor. Anyone who thinks differently needs to get their head out of the sand. I use Fedora.

Oh cool, I was banned from there last month.

Windows too

it's not locked for me, did they reverse it?

Wasn't the guy who made it banned? Is he the one who made that fuck America community of whatever it was called?