People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux's fault, and that the OS doesn't work.
190They need to noobify that prompt further, something like "Yes, break my system!". Even Linus wouldn't fall for that (I hope)!
31Or have them answer a few linux related questions
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Message two can also be caused by packages (or rather, package creators) with delusions of grandeur that only think that the system will stop working without them, so they rig things to threaten to uninstall the system.
Or else someone has created too heavy a dependency on something that ought to be removable, but isn't thanks to malice or incompetence (or both).
We still mock Microsoft for putting too heavy a dependency (or at least removal FUD) on whatever web browser they bundle with their OSes (first IE, now Edge), and here we might have a package creator trying the same damn thing.
20Honestly I once did this to my desktop environment because I saw a huge list of packages and ignored it because I thought they were packages that could be upgraded, not that it was going to uninstall my fucking desktop lol
13LTT Moments
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- Login as a user.
- Delete the user while still logged in
- Run command
You should get a message "you don't exist, go away"
Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with "deluser $USER" and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
183My local
deluserchecks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.I'm not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.
40Well you could manually edit /etc/password and shadow I suppose
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I think I'll just take your word for it.
28Easy to try in a virtual machine with snapshot. Or use a filesystem snapshot
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the famous "This incident will be reported" error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.
138While it was funny, it probably is for the best. Especially if a kid uses the system it might legitimately scare the shit out of them lol
I wouldn't be surprised if a kid thought the police was gonna break in now
57I noticed this, got so sad. It was one of the funniest ones for me. First time I got it I kinda laughed.
27I'll never forget this one lmao
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How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!
I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn't actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job
100That was a fun read, thank you.
21Good chance that could be fire
20I love that the Wikipedia article has a section on Printer flammability :D
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There's also the naughty programmer getting spanked by EFL
98EFL is an absolute crime against programmer-kind, even if the errors are, admittedly, hilarious. can assert that they are not so funny when you find them deeeeep in some god-forsaken legacy codebase that's seen more
null *s than git commits lol1
The third one is new to me. "Congratulations" - that's fucking hilarious.
92I got so hung up on the misspelling of "separate" that I didn't even see the "Congratulations" on first read-through. Which says more about me than about the error message, alas. 😅
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Reminds me of the Chocolatey Uninstall script warning
87What the heck tho, how could a simple script destroy a whole machine?
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score 10 or sacrifice childis actually just a MtG card, how did that get in there72I can't imagine Linux users and mtg players being mutually exclusive lol
44We're not
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Gah and I spent all that money on a garage foundation.
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"It's possible I did something wrong." 🤣
Like not read the warning that said that he was about to uninstall the desktop? Or to continue only if he knew what he was doing? He also earlier liked to talk about "red flags", but somehow needing to type in "Yes, do as I say!" wasn't one to him. I'm supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?54I'm supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?
No, this is Linus Sex Tips not Linux Tech Tips!
29I'm supposed to be getting Linux tips from this guy?
No. You're supposed to see what kind of experience someone who didn't use Linux before would have.
How could someone who has never used Linux know that he was about to nuke his system, after typing in the command that the internet told him to type in to install Steam?
24What makes you think your average Windows user that is trying out Linux for the first time wouldn't have faced the same problem? I never understood why people criticized Linus for this video. After all, the video was supposed to see whether Linux is a viable alternative for Windows users (specifically gamers).
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Top one has to be my favorite. I've gotten it once. I did manage to get it to boot and fixed it but at the time I was just like: "oh....well shit"
51do you remember what causes it? and what was the fix?
14When a (typical) Linux system boots up, it first goes through an "early boot" environment that just has some basic drivers and things. The entire purpose of this environment is to find where your actual root file system is (which could theoretically be on something quite complicated, like RAID or a network file system), mount that, and then transition to the "real" system.
That error appears when something goes wrong with mounting the real file system.
17I had this happen to me recently too, with an EndeavourOS live USB. In my case, it turned out to be due to a faulty flash, reflashing with Rufus fixed it.
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Your system ate a SPARC! Gah
What does this mean? Does it has something to do with... I don't know, the Sun SPARC CPUs?
38BEST os ever, proof is right here.
30That's some bare metal system breakage I can get behind
28Permanently Deleted
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Where lp0 on fire?
21I've been messing around with Linux VMs and have gotten kernel panic a lot lately. Always gives me a chuckle
17What am I missing in the "end Kernel panic" one?
15failed to mount root filesystem on unknown-block(0,0)means the kernel started, loaded builtin drivers and drivers from the initrd, looked for the system partition to continue starting up and couldn't find it.Maybe you removed a disk and
/dev/sdbbecame/dev/sdaor maybe you forgot to add nvme SSD support and the kernel can't read/dev/nvme0n1p1.Or your disk let out the magic smoke and isn't detected any more.
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lp0: on fire
14linux susadmin can't even find the print screen button smdh head /s
12You don’t see most of these errors in situations where screenshots are possible
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php has a log message about killing children, i think i saw once
11The first one sent shivers fown my spine.
Second one just reminded me of Linus' challenge.
The third one gave me quite a laugh.
I let out a chuckle on the last one
4LI
2Linux distros FTW!!!
1I love Linux but this is a huge pain point for me with Linux. Just tell me actual errors like a professional OS would.
-14Just tell me actual errors like a professional OS would.
Professional OS:
59Ah, my Windows (dual booted and hardly ever used) desktop wallpaper. 😅
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It does tell you the actual error, though. Following it up with "Good luck" isn't particularly professional but removing it would just make the message more boring, not any clearer.
48IIRC the person who added that didn't add it as a joke but as a genuine thing.
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Personally, I do find these add additional information:
- That this really is a rather serious problem.
- Entropy, to make it easier to find others with the same problem.
25IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
6ssh!
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