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.
I would just give them there own VM. They can blow it up and it will do notho. Bonus if you can restore it quickly.
Ah, but 25 years ago? No easy vm setup. And I trusted the guy then, so I wasn’t guarded as I should be.
We learn through pain.