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[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was first starting out my programming adventures with Python, someone told me that I should work with Python 3 instead of 2 because that's what will be maintained in the future (this was some 8 years ago). I decided to listen and when I got home I opened up my terminal, wrote:

sudo apt-get remove python

Followed by

sudo apt-get install python3

Only to be suddenly greeted with:

sudo: command not found

[–] madeindjs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I remember I did the same mistakes few years ago. If I'm not mistaken, there is a big warning message when you try to remove Python, no?

[–] UnbeatenDeployGoofy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

In my days of learning Python, I was told to use pyenv and set environments based on the projects rather than making changes to the system. Maybe there are better options nowadays.

[–] Plume@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be completely fair, he nuked his desktop environment when it absolutely shouldn't have happened. Yes, there was the warning and he should've read it, but coming from Windows, how many times is the "This app may harm your PC" threat legitimate? Linus made an honest mistake, but pop truly made a massive oversight.

[–] Marxine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh that's Windows' fault in crying wolf so many times for nothing

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Windows warning is a reminder that an app can be a virus. There is no warning that the app will self destruct your PC even if it's a reputable app.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it easier to remove Snap from Ubuntu or Edge from Windows 11?

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For VR Gaming, I installed https://ameliorated.io/ onto a fresh Windows 11. Seems to replace Edge with Firefox and more other programs with Open Source ones.

But what if you would do it manually? I guess on a Vanilla Windows its not even thaf easy or possible because Windows Updates tend to fix it. But i am just a Linux user who jist wants to play VR and not really use the Desktop

[–] azuth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Snap, and just uninstalling a snap provided program is even easier. Or just getting the system to use your own non snap program as default.

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There is a single command to run as admin to uninstall edge.

[–] myrrh@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] drownedPhoenician@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For those wondering which xkcd:

xkcd 149

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is great

And so are you

[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but how can I access this from a different instance? I tried searching the community but it returned no result.

[–] myrrh@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

The search function's really weird, was having trouble finding a community on a different instance as well. I think it works best if you remove the ! and everything after @. I went onto sh.itjustworks, went to the Communities tab, then all, then searched "windows_help" and I found it. Hope. that works!

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge is so trashy. It's constantly trying to shove politics, celebrity gossip and Bing down your throat.

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The way they promote it intrusively in every corner of windows they can manage is trashy too.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Yes, I know what I am doing"

*system fails to boot

*surprised Linus face

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is how I feel about Java vs Go/C#/etc

[–] SpookySnek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is java and which is C# lmao

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Java is the top, C# is the bottom. The Java language designers consider unsigned integers harmful (and this). They're basically saying "You could hurt yourself with this so we're taking it away." I find that patronizing and disrespectful. On the other hand C# and Go tell you, "Yo bro, doing pointer math and direct memory manipulation is not safe, but I'm not gonna stop you."

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love that about C#. It's safe and managed, but if you need the unsafe features for performance etc, then they're available. It's the best if both worlds, imo.

[–] DokoDemoCrafter1999@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Steps to remove GRUB on Debian: "doas apt purge grub-efi* -y" "doas rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/debian"

[–] TooL@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Look at this guy with his fancy efi bootloader..

[–] SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks running it rn. GRUB was hogging precious disk

[–] N00b22@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can actually uninstall Edge, Microsoft just says it will break your system. Not a big deal, you can always reinstall Edge later via winget

[–] MaliciousKebab@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well last week I nuked my X11 KDE installation by removing random python packages.

[–] SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org -2 points 1 year ago

Oh same lol fuck Linux

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well you can still uninstall edge on windows, even if it break your system, you can do it. There are tons of guides you can find on internet. It's basically running the installer with an uninstall flag.

[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it actually break the system tho?

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some functionalites are broken, for example some settings in the settings panel wont display, because it's a react ui (mostly everything related to onedrive/online account), lots of software expect it to be present and use it (like visual studio). Git (to connect with oauth).
But a lot of things still works.

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?

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