I still like this meme - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

Linux: i can’t stop dumb users (me) completely destroying everything with a bad console command
I'm pretty sure that if you use elevated privileges to run commands you don't understand, you can break Windows just as much as you can break Linux. Windows might pop up an extra "Are you sure?" box or two though. It's been a while since I did anything on that OS.

You can, but on windows there is no need usually to run these kind of commands.

What happened was that years ago was trying out Ubuntu but didn’t like the UI, so I followed some steps from someone to replace the gnome or whatever with something else (kde?), but then the ui completely broke down. Ironically, something similar happened lately on my Ubuntu virtual machine, where the file Explorer has rendering issues, but tbh I think this time it was because the virtual machine disk space became full mid update.

I would not recommend someone who does not know what they are doing replacing the DE, the process heavily varies depending on your current setup. If you want Ubuntu with KDE, just use Kubuntu.

I’m pretty sure that if you use elevated privileges to run commands you don’t understand, you can break Windows just as much as you can break Linux.

I can confirm.

Source: I learned most of what I know about computers (which is genuinely quite a lot), by doing dumbass stupid stuff I didn’t understand yet.