Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.

Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.

    • robzombie91@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 years ago

      Your essentially telling your terminal to delete everything starting at your home directory, folder structure be damned

    • wviana@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      2 years ago

      ~ is a “aliás” to your user home directory. If you are anywhere and want to copy something into your documents folder you can do cp file.txt ~/Documents instead of cp file.txt /home/username/Documents

      So by typing rm ~ it actually deleted the /home/username directory instead of the ~ file in it.

      I think rm '~' does delete the file.