Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Dumbest Mistakes I've Ever Made On Linux" video.

  1. Amazing that Linux does this in a more user friendly way than Windows and yet people believe the opposite.
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  2. You probably don't need this tip, but for anyone who reads this that does, always reread the command slower than you typed it before hitting enter when it's something involving dd, rm, mv or when using > to redirect to a file.
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  3. When using any file system altering programs in a script, it's always a good idea to test variables for emptiness before using them in such a command.
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  4. You still use Windows at all? Weird.
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  5.  @BrodieRobertson  In the video you recalled that it was once or twice a year. Just to refresh your memory.
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  6.  @liquidmagma0  Very useful for auto mounts in fstab.
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  7. I'll have to add that to my list of programs to recommend people slow down when using. First time I've heard of that error too.
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  8.  @obake6290  Why did they stop publishing a live CD? It was always super useful for me as a recovery disc and when I went to download a newer version last year for my current computer they didn't have one.
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  9.  @eriklundstedt9469  Debian has always been called Debian. Ubuntu is an offshoot of Debian, though. You might be thinking about the codenames that they use for different releases.
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  10.  @billeterk  Possibly a little known tip, with coreutils programs and anything that uses getopt, using the switch -- will terminate the interpretation of switches on the remainder of the command line so you can easily use filenames that start with a dash. Spaces though, yeah, you'll tear your hair out if you don't know about quoting and escapes.
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  11. Sounds like the first time someone had a good result with rm -rf /.
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  12. What year was this? As far back as at least the late 90's, I've found that you can get pron for free on the internet very easily.
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  13. I was hoping someone would mention it, but it doesn't look like he saw it. Hopefully this pushes it up.
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  14. I love sshfs, but yeah, that's definitely a reason to always pause and think before hitting enter, and use df more.
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  15. Tip for the future, if you want to build anything from source on a Debian based system and you've got all the development files you need to do so, don't do the last step most will say which is `sudo make install`. Instead use the program from its build directory.
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  16. This is why anyone writing rm -rf in a script should be damn sure that any environment variables aren't empty before issuing that command. Even in the middle of a path it can be hazardous.
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  17.  @frrrnixx9012  It's about the permissions of a few files on the host system. For instance if you change them recursively you'll delete things like sticky bits and individual services often use their own groups and user names. It's not a total brick and can generally be fixed easily enough, but if you don't know which files were changed it can make it annoying. I've actually done it before just to see what it would do, and it's not that bad.
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  18.  @notuxnobux  That's why it's always been recommended that if you want to dual boot you install Windows first. Although, I wonder if you can even do that now with UEFI. Do you still dual boot?
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  19. You could just disable UEFI in your BIOS and force it into legacy mode, then install grub as legacy boot.
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  20. Best advice I keep giving. Hopefully people take it to heart.
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  21. Is it really old advice? I'm currently using 33gb of my root space.
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  22.  @Argletrough  True, I waste a lot of space, and could probably get by with half. I never uninstall anything, even if I've only ever used it once, except for one thing. It knows what it is and what it did.
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