Remove the French language pack. Thank me later.

Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. \s

So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?

I’m a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.

Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add --no-preserve-root for that.

You had one task...

My keyboard and mouse speak French with my pc

femdom actually

What distro were you using? I'd imagine some of the more user friendly distros have a warning?

....okay fine. I'll try it on mint when I get home.

Why would you not just format the stick?

Bro, the Counter-Strike devs put porn in the game. I’m surprised they were all able to get away with it.

Huh? Oh no, dude it’s easy. Hold alt and press f4 and it brings it up. Then just browse it with the s and d keys.

Bahahaha! Half the lobby is gone!

This is not making fun of french people, but this might trick people who laugh at french people. That made me smile I must admit.

They speak Esperanto.

True, like the Brits and the Americans we're mostly to proud to learn a foreign language

Oh shit

Aren’t snapshots in btrfs above root?

Edit: they are in “subvolumes”

Source: ChatGPT

On a Btrfs filesystem, running rm -rf /* will attempt to delete everything in the root directory, which includes all files and directories accessible to your permissions. However, Btrfs snapshots are designed to be resistant to regular file deletion commands. Here’s what happens:

1. Snapshots remain intact: rm -rf /* doesn’t automatically delete snapshots because snapshots are stored in special subvolumes. By default, this command won’t affect subvolumes that are not mounted within the filesystem you’re deleting from.

2. You would need specific commands to delete snapshots: To delete snapshots on Btrfs, you would typically use a command like btrfs subvolume delete <snapshot> for each snapshot individually, as snapshots are managed by the filesystem and not treated as standard directories.

3. The data inside the snapshots is preserved: Even if files in the root filesystem are deleted, any data captured in snapshots remains, as snapshots are essentially read-only copies at a certain point in time.

Important Note: If the snapshots are mounted and accessible in the directory tree where rm -rf /* is run, you could accidentally delete them if the command traverses into the snapshots’ directories. To protect snapshots, administrators often mount them in isolated directories (e.g., /snapshots) or keep them unmounted until explicitly needed.

In summary, unless you run specific deletion commands for Btrfs subvolumes, snapshots should remain unaffected by rm -rf /* due to the unique way Btrfs manages snapshots.

That's not comparable. The situations are quite different. Let me explain:

In your example: Windows. It's basically the "default" operating system. Billions of users. Some of those billions are kinda dumb and will type in a command or delete a folder because the Internet said so. Ok, so you ruined the day of some dummy with a practical joke. Not particularly funny, but whatever, it's just some dummy.

In the Linux example, here's how it goes. There's an alternative OS people can try out. People who are fed up with Microsoft. They install Linux for the first time, and what's their first experience? Some practical joke ruins their day. These are the people we want! The good ones. The ones brave enough to try out Linux, and their first experience is a dumb meme that ruins their day, or week, and totally turns them off from the Linux community.

This is not the same as pranking some dumb Windows users.

And god help you if you dare to ask such a simple question on any Linux forum.

On duckduckgo the first link is extremely straight forward

That's not googling, that's ducking. Besides everyone knows you should get that kind of answer from ChatGPT.