@punkrockllama
You get the beauty of a completely bloatless system
@YamiZee
Perfect. Your whole computer running from the ram, free of bloat
@anthonyobryan3485
Back in the 90's, I was working on my newest software as root (I always ran as root back then). I was two directories up from the root directory one late night, and was deathly tired. I was ready to go to bed, but I needed to delete a temporary directory I had made. So I typed "rm -rf .." and pressed Enter. I immediately realized that I was actually only one directory up from root, so I had effectively typed "rm -rf /". I spammed Control-C as fast as I could! I got a command prompt back, but couldn't even use "ls" to see how much damage I had done. At this phase in my life, I had no money to buy any backup media, so I was living very dangerously. I reinstalled the base operating system, and was relieved to discover that the removal hadn't reached my home directory by the time I had terminated the rm command. I lost five years of my lifespan that day.
@1Vaudevillian1
Windows: You do not have permission to delete me. Linux: Your computer bro do what you want.
@tarikvehab8938
I just love how linux "helps" you to delete the os by suggesting what to type in for the command to work
@citywitt3202
For any newly minted Linux users, this also wipes the contents of all plugged in hard drives that are loaded (mounted) in the system, any and all synced drives such as Dropbox, Google drive etc, network attached storage where you have write access and a ton of other stuff including the boot loader.
@jesroe5842
"Bro it's just a prank" The prank:
@skiks3562
I'm imagining a super jaded admin typing this into terminals and staring at it, imagining hitting enter, just to feel something.
@PzMcQunn
I had a CompSci professor lecture in a "Operating Systems" course write a very similar command in our UNI-NAS shell, and then raise his hands up in the air and say "If I now press enter, or a cat jumps on the enter key, whatever, everything I've done in this university for the past 20 years will be gone. But because I can operate a computer with knowledge and certainty, I will not do that, I will instead press backspace", and then he very carefully performed backspace. He just wanted to show that just because as a chef you can stick your fingers in the deep fat fryer, you should know what you're doing, and not do that. And that you shouldn't be scared of running commands on the shell, but you should know what each command does.
@Ch0rr1s
Before running this command, make sure to disconnect all network drives. Not saying i accidentally deleted 2TB of data when testing a snapshot recovery in a vm. But i kinda deleted 2TB of company project data when testing snapshot based Desaster recovery in a vm... (I connected the drive to store the snapshot. Forgot to unmount before destroying the local system on purpose) That was not a fun experience...
@king_flow2384
For those who don't want to see the video, this command deletes the French language from the linux system, which can make it faster and more optimized overall.
@RavenMobile
I once typed in "rm -rf /*" instead of "rm -rf */". What a difference in these two commands! The first erases your entire computer, the second removes all sub-directories in the current folder. I managed to hit Ctrl+C when I saw it was going wrong, but I lost my /bin and a few other system folders before it went into my folder and started erasing my personal files. Luckily, the first folder at the start of the alphabet was "Backups", so it was erasing those when I stopped it. I managed to not lose a single personal file! After that I mostly stopped using rm -rf with wildcards.
@Xenogeist_3
Windows: NO DON'T DELETE THE EDGE BROWSER I WON'T LET YOU linux: Boss,on your command.
@Jozo.42
⚠️WARNING⚠️ This will also wipe the data on all connected drives, including USB-sticks, SSDs, Hard drives, Disks/Diskettes and SD-cards
@Tony_Goat
Last time I checked, the `--no-preserve-root` flag only works specifically on /, so if you use an expansion `rm -rf /*`, it will delete everything without the same prompt.
@MunchyDuster
Now for entirely unrelated reasons I want a video that explains how to get the system set up again EDIT: this was a rhetorical joke and replies were not expected, 10 months of reply notifications is getting annoying. (no i dont want to turn off notifications because there are other videos i'd want to be notified about)
@reiniermoreno1653
Saying this is like erasing system32 with steroids doesn't do it justice
@andrei_camilotto
Windows: NO! YOU CAN'T MODIFY THIS FOLDER 😭😭 Linux: See ya in heaven 🗿
@xHal_
Windows: "Nah bro, u cant just do that" Linux: "Do whatever shit u want. I don't care, it's ur system"
@JeanMauriceSdH