It needs to be done manually with an additional switch instead of being easily done by typing a bit of text. It's like what happens when you rm -rf /, it's just a different way of presenting the problem to the user. This will probably not stop the most extreme of Linus moments, but it might help.
Yes they took away the "do as I say" prompt because Linus decided to type that in without understanding the ramifications. Now you have to provide the argument
--allow-remove-essential to remove packages marked essential.
Well this is dumb I didn't notice that, but is any experienced Debian user is ever going to have this problem accidentally when the solver triggers, this could be some sort of safeguard for beginners or preventing fuck ups. I prefer the classic way anyways of the "Yes, do as I say" to prevent retards from fucking up.
Linux evangelists. Every single fucking time.
Not even that, just the recognition that this probably isn't a great safety measure. If someones trying to remove something relatively important, that they don't understand the importance of, asking them to confirm it generically doesn't actually make it any safer - its like the useless windows User Account Control prompt when you're already logged in as a system admin. Turning it into an explicit, bespoke command line argument means you need awareness of the command line argument and the situations in which it'd actually work, making it more likely you actually understand what you're doing.
That seems hyperbolic if anyone notices it and thinks "who the fuck is this Linus Sebastian guy and why the fuck he shouldn't be allowed to use this?" bringing more attention to the situation out of curiosity.
Another case of SystemD being a dick as usual.
I had a client 2 years ago, where I installed MX Linux for a senior and surprisingly I didn't have a phone call for help after these years post-installation, so that seems idiot-proof enough.
That's not a generic prompt from apt though. Normally apt will just prompt y/n. Personally I have never seen a prompt from apt worded so scarily and there's no chance in hell I'd say yes to it without being absolutely sure. Linus just rolling with it is nuts, he must really put a lot of faith in advice from random Reddit posts.
One major issue is every GUI package manager just being a thin wrapper over tools like apt. It works ok when the installation is successful but their error handling just dumps incomprehensible shit into a modal then challenges the user to figure it out.
Ah yes, because everyone's OS use case ends on using Firefox and browsing the web. But try going anywhere outside of that narrow use case and you'll be running into problems.
To be more precise: all Linux GUI elements are a CLI wrapper. Modern Linux is like Windows 95/98/Me, it's a GUI wrapper running on top of a CLI OS. And that led to massive issues for Microsoft, which led them to drop the 9x lineage for consumers and instead adapt their enterprise solution to it, which was Windows NT, which was developed from the ground up to be a GUI OS.
This is the thing that gets me. When Linus gets a prompt from the system that asks, "Are you REALLY REALLY sure you know what you're doing?" he completely ignores the whole thing despite the fact he obviously has no fucking clue what he is doing.
All it would've taken was for him to read the text and think about it for a split second. But I guess reading is for plebs lol.
I agree that there is an issue with software accessibly and there should be more software suiting those needs, but it's better to explain towards those programmers devs and force them to port their software towards Linux, heck even some propitiatory software ported as AppImages justifying some sort of a solution.
My nigga, NT is a hybrid kernel almost like Gnu-Herd(a microkernel), which allows layering user-mode programs as it's own sandbox of libraries and dependencies without interfering with system libraries and stuff. If you think about it, all GUI & CLI elements regardless of OS structure are command cruncher overlays.
I didn't intend for my laughing at a small change made in apt because of someone being dumb to turn into an autistic argument over the reasons why Linux sucks, but here we are.
C:\>, it's because Microsoft hired an absolute genius from DEC to build the next big thing after deciding they weren't going to wait forever for OS/2 to mature.
A real Linus fan uses piss bottles.
I find to be a good thing and it's not the first time that linux did something like that, like when `sudo rm -rf /` was a joke, they added a security measure where it doesn't let you remove core parts of the system without passing --no-preserve-root after.
I find funny how they replaced Fathony for this guy who's 10x worse after he began to transition
Seems like he mostly hires fresh college grads - probably cuz of salary expectations. A lotta technology oriented people get into their first 'real' job where they're actually getting paid well, but don't leave the poor college student mindset where fast food is a luxury. So they celebrate their newfound relative wealth with the luxury they know, a stack of cheeseburgers. I'm sure the antimasculine atmosphere of LTT doesn't help encourage people to change that any, but its not really LTT's fault. Shit happens everywhere.
