Not going to lie. Many years ago on one of my first Linux installs that I actually built up to be more than just a dev playground, I deleted my bootloader… it just let me do that, no scary confirm. That is the day I learned Linux is guardrails-off, lol.
My personal hurdle as teenager always was having to keep windows on same disk for my sisters to use while struggling to install Linux besides it so I could have that semi transparent terminal like in the movies. Can’t even count how many times I’ve bricked bootloader because of that, but when it worked I felt like I’m a president
Windows is the best program to use if you want to accidentally lose your boot ability. I haven’t bothered to try dual boot for 10 years because I got tired of the bullshit.
Technically speaking you don’t need a bootloader to boot Linux, with uefi of course you can use efistub and just boot from there but you could also have a separate Linux distro on a USB stick than chroot into your main one. Hell even if you uninstall the kernel there are still ways to repair the system.
Just make sure to reinstall a bootloader before the next reboot. Or bring one one a USB stick when you need it. Or just copy me and boot me in a VM. What do I care? I’m just a kernel.
I wanna update my arch with a single command/click, no confirms.
The whole forum: Nooooo!!! You’re gonna break your system!! You’ll regret this!! Nooooooooo!
Meanwhile 99% of people just spam yes at their terminal when updating and restore a snapshot when things don’t work out.
What’s the point of a backup you don’t load?
A mistake in Linux can cause it to uninstall its bootloader.
A mistake in Windows can also cause it to uninstalling Linux’s bootloader.
Windows IS a mistake.
You can uninstall edge
You can
uninstallhide edgeon ltsc you can uninstall it like any other program
What does it even mean?
A different version of Windows, designed for enterprise customers.
I don’t know now but years ago when I used to use windows you wouldn’t be able to uninstall it
Github
… and the irony that Windows can also fuck up your bootloader in a dual boot scenario.
You know, as much as I don’t love AI, a small model sitting in the terminal of noob installations might be a useful thing.
update graphics driver
:hey, that’s not a command, but if you’re looking to do that, you should … (step by step process)
I’ve… seen this? Well, not an AI model, but I know I’ve seen something where it takes common words and gives you the best guess on commands, and even common typos.
yeah, Ubuntu has a command-not-found handler. it sets up .bashrc with /usr/lib/command-not-found when you miss a cli match.
There is a program called thefuck that does this - can fix things like gti instead of git etc…
Pour one out for the real heros
That’s actually a good idea, just a tiny local model just to help you learn how to work in a terminal. I would have loved that when I first made the jump, the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.
I’ve been avoiding RTFM for 30 years. command --help at best. Whoever writes the manual pages and I just don’t see eye to eye on documentation.
command - description
20 examples of common usage
exhaustive list of options with a short paragraph each and acceptable usage.
that’s what I want.
It seems either they want to write you a 50 page novel mentioning random options or just give you 250 options with loose references of what’s not allowed with what.
I’ve been throwing a lot of my shell scripts into llm and asking for best practice updates, it’s shocking how much cool shit it out there that i’ve never even considered.
today’s gem:
script -q ~/command.log
do a bunch of crap
exit
script get’s written
put that together with SSH.
Now you log ssh sessions on all servers to one file. You can go back and farm that for history.
script that out so that on exit it expunges export, sql and vault type passwords/keys.
the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.
Ya, there just gatekeeping skum that want to feel better than everyone else.
Learning to not ask questions, feeling like a pleb when everyone else is a guru, and having RTFM yelled at you is part of the Linux experience. What else do you expect me to do when someone asks me a question? Provide that new user with a level headed answer that concisely addresses their problem in-order to encourage them to join the Linux community and help it to grow? Are you even listening to yourself right now, you sound crazy.
“Am afraid you can’t do that”
Sigh “sudo uninstall the bootloader”
Yes, do as I say!
Edge is cancer, it randomly opens and takes minutes to load before recognizing closing it.
In the old days task manager would close it, but task manager is now worthless. God I fucking hate Microsoft
Linux is the parent that let’s their child put a fork into the electrical socket and then says “Have you learned anything?”
*lets
If you say so!
Linux is the parent tells their child “Lets put a fork into the electrical socket” and then says “Have you learned anything?”
Msg unclear system dead
Missed opportunity to draw a penguin face.
EatingOnions is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
I have none of that bloat crap on my calculator.
Linux does let you fuck around and find out lol
rm -rf /But then you find out, and you learn, and we become better users for it.
Don’t be so sure.
True, I only broke my boot twice… Never again
With the number of times I have done the live distro chroot thing you’d think I would have the procedure memorized
Linux does not “let you fuck around” in fact its says “you are root and if you root I assume u know what you do!”
And yeah i learned that the hard way when it didnt threw any errors at me doing stuff as root…
10/10 would do it again!
I’ve forgotten i was root, thought I was back to normal user, fat fingered a command, and removed tons of directories. I actually learn more fixing my fuck ups than when I reading books. Nothing like pressure to really focus you!
The best teacher is a fuck up
That happened to me with /etc/ . That was not a fun experience.
