I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.
I’ve got the usual forgetting the .
in lines like this:
$ rm -rf ./bin
As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.
You know, the war stories.
Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.
Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects
folder has been deleted like… just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.
Removed and
apt purge
’d python2 package.Pity debian folded in on itself and dpkg required it at the time for something so that wasn’t an easy one.
Similar thing in ubuntu, something required a newer python version than the system installed one. I thought I’ll uninstall the old one bcoz why have two versions. Ended up reinstalling ubuntu.