Very useful tip

To he fair, it is removing the french language pack (if installed).

Well, technically yeah. But at what cost?
- I removed the French language pack
  What did it cost you?
  Everything
- None. Just profit.
- pan to Thanos

I just se saved 206 GiB on my drive. Thanks!

Who knew the funny diacritics used so much storage?

sudo rm -fr /* is short for sudo rm --for-real /*

Super-do real-magic --for-real /* (<- that's a magic wand)
- Lmaooooo
- Su means substitute user, not super user
- I thought it begins a comment.
Remember that AI answer that said that adding -f option was to get a confirmation before deletion ?
I'm a bit concerned that this kind of meme will get a lot more real when people will blindly trust AI for commands.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the post in question but if I recall it was GitHub AI telling boldly that you can add -f to your RM command to get a confirmation...
Read the man people. RTFM is still a good advice.
- I mean.
  People have been saying "press alt F4 to change your IRC nick" or whatever for several decades
-force -recursive but I like the way you think

don't forget no-preserve-root to remove all the roots and prevent it from getting reinstalled

since it affects /* and not / no-preserve-root isn't needed
'root' referred to the Fr*nch root words

for real

I think that was a load-bearing language pack - my entire system has caved-in!

A little more destructive 😅
“As a ‘super user’, do ‘remove’ with ‘force’ and ‘recursively’ everything starting from the beginning of the hard drive (‘/‘)
Though I think most consumer Linux OS has like 2-3 warnings before actually doing it……… doesn’t stop everybody 😅
In Linux, the root of the filesystem is /
The command would remove recursively every file/directory in the filesystem, essentially nuking the whole system.
- Im not sure if it would delete the whole system. Isn't it more likely that it will destroy everything until it kills a file/directory necessary for the operation to run?

I've never actually tried this but feel like rm should have a built in warning specifically for that command letting them know they've been trolled and have a y/N prompt.

There kind of is one, but it is overridden by -f
- You also need the flag "--no-preserve-root".
Come on, it is super fun. Just install VirtualBox and set up a virtual machine, make sure there is no funky mount point that touches your host machine, and go nuke that VM !
You can create an alias in ".bashrc" just in case.