this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
291 points (98.0% liked)
Technology
74153 readers
3837 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Linux users: "See what we mean?"
Windows users: "La la la! I can't hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!"
I have literally never had one of these things happen to me before. I'm pretty sure people just make them up for clicks at this point.
Oh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11
So you mean losing your data on Linux not easy as rm -rd?
Should do the trick. (Obviously don’t try it unless you know what you are doing and know what may happen when it hits your EFI variables.)
Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data
I mean, it shouldn't be, but apparently it is
"You mean if I delete data, then it's gone? No matter what platform?"
Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.
Windows treats users like a product.
Cause we are to them. We are nothing more than monetized eye balls.
rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.
Not with GNU rm, no.