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i actually don’t think i’ve ever had major accidental data loss because of linux. the most data i’ve lost was because a microsd card failed, but i’ve never accidentally rm’d or formatted some hugely important drive

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@breaadyboy i have but it was because i wasn’t using rm quite right basically, and i was able to recover more than i assumed, and rebuilding wasn’t hard at all. i think that while it’s technically true, and important to tell beginners, the idea that “one command can ruin everything” is a bit of an exaggeration, at least tonally, and i think that that exaggeration has scared people off

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