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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When I was first starting out my programming adventures with Python, someone told me that I should work with Python 3 instead of 2 because that's what will be maintained in the future (this was some 8 years ago). I decided to listen and when I got home I opened up my terminal, wrote:

sudo apt-get remove python

Followed by

sudo apt-get install python3

Only to be suddenly greeted with:

sudo: command not found

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember I did the same mistakes few years ago. If I'm not mistaken, there is a big warning message when you try to remove Python, no?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In my days of learning Python, I was told to use pyenv and set environments based on the projects rather than making changes to the system. Maybe there are better options nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Pyenv is still a good option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Anaconda for example

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Haha I've done this.

I somehow did some bash wizardry that reinstalled all the packages that were removed with python and was good to go. Nice to see someone else did the exact same thing though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be completely fair, he nuked his desktop environment when it absolutely shouldn't have happened. Yes, there was the warning and he should've read it, but coming from Windows, how many times is the "This app may harm your PC" threat legitimate? Linus made an honest mistake, but pop truly made a massive oversight.

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

Tbh that's Windows' fault in crying wolf so many times for nothing

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

xkcd 149

also shamelessly plugging [email protected].

edit typo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For those wondering which xkcd:

xkcd 149

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is great

And so are you

[–] testaccount789 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, but how can I access this from a different instance? I tried searching the community but it returned no result.

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

The search function's really weird, was having trouble finding a community on a different instance as well. I think it works best if you remove the ! and everything after @. I went onto sh.itjustworks, went to the Communities tab, then all, then searched "windows_help" and I found it. Hope. that works!

[–] testaccount789 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I might have found an answer. Some communities might not be federated yet on that instance. So you might have to search the whole "[email protected]" and get no results. Then a few minutes later search for just "community" and it should be there.

I have previously tried just "windows_help" as well and it wasn't there yet. Definitely makes this confusing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is it easier to remove Snap from Ubuntu or Edge from Windows 11?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Snap, and just uninstalling a snap provided program is even easier. Or just getting the system to use your own non snap program as default.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can I have you number?

"Ew, no"

Sudo can I have your number?

"Sure, here you go!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?

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

Edge is so trashy. It's constantly trying to shove politics, celebrity gossip and Bing down your throat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The way they promote it intrusively in every corner of windows they can manage is trashy too.

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

"Yes, I know what I am doing"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

*system fails to boot

*surprised Linus face

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can actually uninstall Edge, Microsoft just says it will break your system. Not a big deal, you can always reinstall Edge later via winget

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I just wish they would have a package more suited for power users. I understand the why MS feels the need to treat consumers like idiots, some people truly are clueless and wouldn't have touched a computer 10 years ago when more user freedom was given. But I don't see the need to nerf the whole OS, and every variation, so that my nan doesn't delete system32.

But with the SaaS route the MS are pushing, I'm sticking win Win10 LTSB for as long as I can. I can't help but see things like pushing MS accounts on regular local users as anything other than laying the infrastructure for a more centralised SaaS approach.

I currently run an Unraid server on some old hardware, mostly as a NAS with some Docker containers. But due to the lack of processing power, I've actually been thinking about rolling my main rig and the server into one, then running Windows in a VM. Switching between OS easily would be good, being able to spin up virtual environments easily, and that way I can only use Windows for the things I need Windows for.

Now I've just gotta figure out, you know, how to actually do that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Steps to remove GRUB on Debian: "doas apt purge grub-efi* -y" "doas rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/debian"

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

Look at this guy with his fancy efi bootloader..

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Well last week I nuked my X11 KDE installation by removing random python packages.

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

This is how I feel about Java vs Go/C#/etc

[–] SpookySnek 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is java and which is C# lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Java is the top, C# is the bottom. The Java language designers consider unsigned integers harmful (and this). They're basically saying "You could hurt yourself with this so we're taking it away." I find that patronizing and disrespectful. On the other hand C# and Go tell you, "Yo bro, doing pointer math and direct memory manipulation is not safe, but I'm not gonna stop you."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I love that about C#. It's safe and managed, but if you need the unsafe features for performance etc, then they're available. It's the best if both worlds, imo.

[–] SpookySnek 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It sounds like you're thinking of C++ rather than C#, no?

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

I'm talking about C#'s unsafe keyword. It lets you do pointer shenanigans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well you can still uninstall edge on windows, even if it break your system, you can do it. There are tons of guides you can find on internet. It's basically running the installer with an uninstall flag.

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