“It’s possible I did something wrong.” 🤣
Like not read the warning that said that he was about to uninstall the desktop? Or to continue only if he knew what he was doing? He also earlier liked to talk about “red flags”, but somehow needing to type in “Yes, do as I say!” wasn’t one to him. I’m supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?I’m supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?
No, this is Linus Sex Tips not Linux Tech Tips!
yeah, quote a problematic video. surprised that he deleted everything, when is says it will break his system!
Surprised that it prompted him to delete his system, when he was trying to install Steam!
I didn’t watch the full vid to see what he did to get there.
I was not happy with pop os when I gave it a 10 min trial. I am not surprised that it had some issues to getting steam to work.
I didn’t watch the full vid to see what he did to get there.
Then you should.
Linus just wanted to install Steam and found a solution on the internet that told him to type the command “sudo apt-get install Steam”.
I mean Linus did sth wrong when he wrote that yes do as I say without reading the error message.
On the other hand the Bug he was experiencing should not come to a stable Release build.
Anybody could have make that mistake. Or worse wonder for hours why it didn’t work and suddenly it works. Especially if you are new to Linux and don’t know what instead of the error message should pop up.
- Login as a user.
- Delete the user while still logged in
- Run command
You should get a message “you don’t exist, go away”
Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with “deluser $USER” and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
I think I’ll just take your word for it.
People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux’s fault, and that the OS doesn’t work.
*They will claim it was Linus fault
By “people” you mean Linus Sex Tips
Linux Tech Tips channel when?
With Emily as the main Host (Comment section goes BRRRRRRR! Don’t want to be a mod there xD)
The third one is new to me. “Congratulations” - that’s fucking hilarious.
Reminds me of the Chocolatey Uninstall script warning
What the heck tho, how could a simple script destroy a whole machine?
When a software package installer isn’t designed to be reversible
I recall a bunch of antiviruses being similarly difficult to completely wipe
It isn’t as hard apparently. The script follows the manual way, just delete the folder it’s in. What is a problem seems to be changing the path - extracting, changing and reapplying the path variable seems to need 90 lines of Powershell alone. That’s just crazy. I’m also wondering how other programs write themselves into path without needing warnings and backups of the path for the user to restore.
