this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No please don't encourage running things as root as a random troubleshooting step. Only run as root if you understand what you are doing and know what the command is going to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disregard this comment, become root and then run rm -rm /* to fix many common pc problems (it won't wipe your drives :trollface:) ~s~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] darcy 1 points 1 year ago

dont forget --no-preserve-root or else it wont work properly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Real admins screw instead of root