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.
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By "people" you mean Linus Sex Tips
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Linux Tech Tips channel when?
With Emily as the main Host (Comment section goes BRRRRRRR! Don't want to be a mod there xD)
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They need to noobify that prompt further, something like "Yes, break my system!". Even Linus wouldn't fall for that (I hope)!
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Message two can also be caused by packages (or rather, package creators) with delusions of grandeur that only think that the system will stop working without them, so they rig things to threaten to uninstall the system.
Or else someone has created too heavy a dependency on something that ought to be removable, but isn't thanks to malice or incompetence (or both).
We still mock Microsoft for putting too heavy a dependency (or at least removal FUD) on whatever web browser they bundle with their OSes (first IE, now Edge), and here we might have a package creator trying the same damn thing.
Honestly I once did this to my desktop environment because I saw a huge list of packages and ignored it because I thought they were packages that could be upgraded, not that it was going to uninstall my fucking desktop lol
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- 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
My local deluser checks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.
I'm not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.
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the famous "This incident will be reported" error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.
While it was funny, it probably is for the best. Especially if a kid uses the system it might legitimately scare the shit out of them lol
I wouldn't be surprised if a kid thought the police was gonna break in now
I noticed this, got so sad. It was one of the funniest ones for me. First time I got it I kinda laughed.
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How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!
I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn't actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job
Good chance that could be fire
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The third one is new to me. "Congratulations" - that's fucking hilarious.
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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
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score 10 or sacrifice child is actually just a MtG card, how did that get in there
I can't imagine Linux users and mtg players being mutually exclusive lol
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"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!
I'm supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?
No. You're supposed to see what kind of experience someone who didn't use Linux before would have.
How could someone who has never used Linux know that he was about to nuke his system, after typing in the command that the internet told him to type in to install Steam?
By reading the message and using basic comprehension. If you don't know what something is in an error message then google it!
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What makes you think your average Windows user that is trying out Linux for the first time wouldn't have faced the same problem? I never understood why people criticized Linus for this video. After all, the video was supposed to see whether Linux is a viable alternative for Windows users (specifically gamers).
Yes. People have been trained to ignore warnings like this.
Android makes you jump through a hoop and tries to scare you when you want to install apps from outside the playstore.
Windows has some similarly serious-sounding warning messages.
People have got used to rolling their eyes at warnings when installing software. Like it or not, that's the way that it is. Users are used to seeing a scary warning when installing, and they're used to just powering through it without much thought.
Linus was following a tutorial on the PopOS website, followed the instructions, and borked his install.
I have problems with LTT in general, but the PopOS thing was entirely understandable, and people pretending that wasn't a usability problem in PopOS are delusional.
I agree with that other reply.
Linus knew just enough to be dangerous.
My experience with most Windows users and their first encounter with using a Linux terminal is every single warning/error they see no matter how mundane is a big deal.
Things like the boot text or a random apt install on Linux will often display various warnings or even "errors" that are really of no concern but ime tend to freak out new users.
Linus is in that narrow band where he doesn't really know shit but knows just enough to be falsely confident and ignore all the warnings/errors instead of just the irrelevant ones
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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!
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Top one has to be my favorite. I've gotten it once. I did manage to get it to boot and fixed it but at the time I was just like: "oh....well shit"
do you remember what causes it? and what was the fix?
When a (typical) Linux system boots up, it first goes through an "early boot" environment that just has some basic drivers and things. The entire purpose of this environment is to find where your actual root file system is (which could theoretically be on something quite complicated, like RAID or a network file system), mount that, and then transition to the "real" system.
That error appears when something goes wrong with mounting the real file system.
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Your system ate a SPARC! Gah
What does this mean? Does it has something to do with... I don't know, the Sun SPARC CPUs?
BEST os ever, proof is right here.
Where lp0 on fire?
I've been messing around with Linux VMs and have gotten kernel panic a lot lately. Always gives me a chuckle
What am I missing in the "end Kernel panic" one?
failed to mount root filesystem on unknown-block(0,0) means the kernel started, loaded builtin drivers and drivers from the initrd, looked for the system partition to continue starting up and couldn't find it.
Maybe you removed a disk and /dev/sdb became /dev/sda or maybe you forgot to add nvme SSD support and the kernel can't read /dev/nvme0n1p1.
Or your disk let out the magic smoke and isn't detected any more.
lp0: on fire
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