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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!"
Your account seems to be marked as a bot, you can fix that in your user settings if it was unintentional
This comment of theirs reads like a comment by a Lemmy upvote farming bot tbf
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.
I know people who were affected when a Windows 10 update just straight up deleted all personal files in 2020.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/19/new-windows-10-update-starts-causing-serious-problems/
Cool story, I’m sure no one using Linux has ever lost any data ever.
Oh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11
Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?
Windows 11 only comes in 64 bit flavors so this would be a weird feature to leave in place.
I'm not using any software that doesn't have an upward swipe gesture for jumplists. How can people stand losing features like this?
I'm also gonna sarcastically cherry-pick!
Are you? I didn't see it. If you're trying to make the opposite point, why don't you cherry pick the other way. Let's see what you've got or if this headline is just bullshit.
I'm currently running 50/50 windows/Ubuntu. I'm no Windows fanboy. But I'm also a software dev and I understand deprecating useless shit, something Windows doesn't do much of.
IMO, the Windows Subsystems is kind of cool. WSL 1 used it too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AWindows_2000_architecture.svg
So you mean losing your data on Linux not easy as rm -rd?
There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it's corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.
I'm not going to get angry when I tell my PC to delete a file and it actually does it.
"You mean if I delete data, then it's gone? No matter what platform?"
Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data
I mean, it shouldn't be, but apparently it is
I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.
Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn't remove people's data that one time. And hey, their so beloved
--no-preserve-rootdidn't prevent that from happening. :DI love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.
If something like
del C:\*.*somehow ended up deleting your D: drive too, we wouldn't stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.rm shouldn't exist at its current form. Full stop.
rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.
Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.
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.)
Not with GNU rm, no.