I get these are jokes but I really don't find anything funny about it, it becomes a meme and then people start getting more creative and pushing it more and being more covert and people come up with other little japes then new Linux users get their shit destroyed and maybe important info gets lost or precious memories so they say Linux is a piece of shit and go back to windows.

It's not even funny to start with so when it inevitably inspires people to be assholes and bullies that's all we've achieved.

[–] newline@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I totally agree. We should be more open and welcoming to new users. Imagine some new people on the steam deck being curious and diving into Linux and running into this. Undoubtedly, we'd lose at least a few users that brick their machines.

I get that this humor fits and entertains the technically inclined of us, but if we truly want more widespread use of Linux, shouldn't we open our arms to less technical users as well? Besides, even for the more technical of us, this joke is so old and run down 🙃

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There's those jokes on the Windows side too (like the 'delete system32' one).

[–] ibk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except that you cannot actually delete System32 on Windows like you can delete your whole drive on Linux.

[–] _thebrain_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can't do this on Linux anymore either. Unless you are on a way out of date system, you need to add the --no-preserce-root flag as well. And I think it still prompts you to make sure it is really want you want to do.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!

You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

User: gleefully types in the phrase

[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Knowing some of the people I have to support on a daily basis, yeah I don't see this stopping some people lol

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