• JasonDJ
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    1 day ago

    When I first messed with Linux circa 1997, I had just installed it and learned how to edit fstab to mount my windows drive automatically.

    I couldn’t figure out how to start X, though, so I booted into windows and asked in EFnet #linux.

    The advice I was given was ‘rm -rf /’.

    I hadn’t yet learned about non-privileged accounts.

    The correct command was ‘startx’.