The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

jeff7989 said:
Or don't run random crap as root.
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It's not like there's much protection added when every tutorial and script has every single command prepended with sudo anyway

Real men userdel 1000 first thing after a clean install and always run as root
 
TheDataHorder said:
standards
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Standards don't respect your freedom as they restrict the way you can use your software. GNU+Linux must not adhere to any standards if it is to respect user's freedom and privacy.
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Slav Power said:
Standards don't respect your freedom as they restrict the way you can use your software. GNU+Linux must not adhere to any standards if it is to respect user's freedom and privacy.
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Any community that has no standards will deteriorate to the lowest common denominator.

Anyone who proudly proclaims that they need no standards has the naive assumption that everyone else has the same standards as them.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Any community that has no standards will deteriorate to the lowest common denominator.
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Wait until a community proposes a standard, only to then introduce another standard which will replace the older standard and so on and so on...

Slav Power said:
There should be toggleable abstractions for when you don't have to fuck around with the core Linux, so that / misuse, even accidental, won't lead to you fucking everything up.
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The UNIX filesystem permission system does allow for fine grained control on who can access that file or directory though.
Maybe what you are describing is something like this:
Code: 
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+-- /SystemPrograms
+-- /Drivers
+-- /Users
    +-- /Foo
        +-- Standard desktop dirs
        +-- /Settings
    +-- /Bar
+-- /Settings (global settings go here)

Slav Power said:
Standards don't respect your freedom as they restrict the way you can use your software. GNU+Linux must not adhere to any standards if it is to respect user's freedom and privacy.
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Speaking of RMS, I stumbled across this very interesting website: what do you all think?
 
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Oh woe is the eternal Linux user that I am. I nuked my home directory by accident when I set the mount point for my extra hard drive as "/home/", thankfully those files are backed up on an external SSD. For some reason it was constantly mounting and unmounting itself. On the bright side, I am more familiar with post install set up since I went scorched earth and did a full reinstall with the extra hardrive as a target. It's just got a small flock of empty folders I could probably delete but to be on the safe side I will simply let them stay there since everything automagically goes to sda1 and not sdb1/man 6 or whatever.
 
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Betonhaus said:
The current filesystem setup is fine as we don't need to baby proof the os like ChromeOS does, but it would probably be more ideal if more guides that introduce people to Linux focus on ensuring that people work in the correct directory when performing operations. And maybe if tar had a warning like "this will extract 300 files totalling 8gb into '/', are you sure?"
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People like you are the reason RedHat has "rm" aliased to "rm -i"

I was actually curious if SELinux in enforcing mode would prevent me from Betonhausing my VM. So I tried it.
The answer is no, no it will not.

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