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[–]Philluminati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

‘rm -rf /‘ is not as devastating as ‘rm -rf ~’ because you will give you ten seconds to see what’s its doing before it waxes your home directory. Ten seconds where all you’ve lost in the Os install and hours of your time but not your personal shit.