Do you dare me to do it?

😱😱😱

Two responses, each unique and independent of each other:
1. That’s really bad for your health. Don’t do it even if you’re young enough for it!!
2. How about... a double dare? 😏

@Haxk20
Precisely. That's why I'm not worried about it. :)

@Michelle considering it's a VM, I would never worry about it

@Krokoklemme
I only made that to scare people with the command. I only use virtual machines to play around when I'm too scared to do the real thing xD
I doubt I'll ever do rm -rf on the real thing.

@Krokoklemme what if she uses that VM to work and as a lot of important stuff in there?

@Michelle The moment someone sees VirtualBox though... Maybe you should’ve hidden that for more impact :)

@Haxk20
I hope you're joking...

Oh... I didn't expect that to happen...

@Haxk20
Nahh, I'm actually bored of playing around with it. I'll just discard and find a new toy on vb.

@Haxk20
Oohh, I'll try that :)
Thanks! It's fun actually.
Thanks for the spam btw I'm at 6K now!

@Haxk20 @Michelle Don’t think you need to do anything explicit to break Arch. Just don’t update your system for maybe two months, and you’ll be in for a Russian roulette.

Edit: That also assumes that you don’t read the announcements from the maintainers.

@Japorized
That takes too long tho ://

@Michelle Haha... That’s just one way of playing with fire on Arch. That aside, you’ll probably have quite some fun picking your building blocks for your system. Once you get tired of it, backup your dotfiles and go ahead and destroy it. Then just install another system and see how fast you can deploy your dotfiles 😂

I wish arch’s default fonts were as beautiful as ubuntu’s 😭
But go ahead! Linux is fun because of stuff like this after all 😂😂

@Haxk20 I check every once in a while and before I do an update, and make an extra effort to do the later to make sure I don’t end up with something broken. Mine’s only on a VM though. I’ve got a pretty old MacBook, and I’ll probably switch to Arch once my laptop is too old to run macOS, or if I end up getting a new machine. It’s why I’m cultivating these habits now.

@Electrux Download your own fonts 😂 Arch is meant to be a DIY distro after all

@Japorized I meant font rendering 😅😅 sorry
Font rendering shud b proper by default...
I can get my own gorgeous fonts but don’t make me dive in xorg font configs pleaseeee 😭😭😭

@Japorized
Okay, thanks for the suggestion!

@Electrux Oh, you mean that! Now that I partially agree! 😂 I can’t fully agree cause I haven’t touched that and so I still don’t understand my options, but the default rendering does look subpar to me.

@Japorized believe me... u don’t wanna delve into that hell 😂😂

@Electrux But I’ll have to if I want to have a beautiful system 😂

'VirtualBox'

@Japorized my condolences with u 😂😂😅😅
Hope u don’t have to delve in those configs...

I once did that with --no-preserve-root ofcourse, on an AWS instance I SSHed to, to show a friend what it does, the terminal froze, I was running some programs and presumed due to many VMs running on my base CentOS, it didn't work.
I executed the command again, this time it wiped my CentOS, I had to give a presentation the very next day. Guess what? I lost all my work!

Thanks to git I'd everything saved. But I had spend hours setting up a OS, provisioning the
VMs, the infrastructure.

just do it...I did it with system file xD

@Haxk20 I always thought that the wildcard gets around the -no-preserve-root option?

I once had to reinstall my OS on my RPi 2, so I tried the command (because I was going to format the whole SD card, anyway). Nothing too bad happened. I couldn't even turn the thing off, because I deleted the shutdown program. lol
When I tried to boot it up again, I don't remember if it didn't do anything or if I got a kernel panic.

Lucky boy

don't forget --no-preserve-root

@Torbuntu I don't believe it does because of the way shell expansion works. You are asking it to delete everything under root.

Might have changed since I last messed with it though.

Go for it, it's not my system. :)

@Michelle hehe