basically, when showing people the terminal, i'll be like "can you break something? Sure! But, if you use it responsibly, you won't do anything nearly this destructive."

the "remove the french language pack" command is a good one too

I would probably remove one oddly specific file that breaks a specific and important part of the install that ends up crashing everything and bricking your computer

or like remove a few bash commands and cause a kernel panic in the middle of install

hai hai! Thank you! I'll put a "my web neighborhood" section together and add yours to it :p

you got this!!

wishing you well buddy!

hi! yes, I got your email but forgot to reply 😅 thank you! I was gonna look for yours but got neck deep into my latest project and it slipped my mind

No worries! It's at tabf5.com/stuff whenever you're free

have fun!! :)

I never knew Mint's firewall is off by default; if reminds me of the early version of Windows XP.

yep! it's the final step in the "First Steps" section of their welcome screen. I was more surprised that Debian 13 ships without any firewall at all. You have to install firewalld or ufw to change firewall profiles.

I think I'll add a part two to the "essentials" section, explaining sudo (and why you should take a second and think if anything asks for an admin password), and where to look for help and information. I.E., forums and documentation. Also how to communicate about your problem so someone can help.

It's so incredibly frustrating when you're new to something, you run into some intractable problem, and you have neither the know-how nor the words to even explain the issue, let alone find a solution. So knowing where to start might help at least!

Wait, my Mint install has a disabled firewall?? Oh shit