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And that is why snapshots exist (sh.itjust.works)
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Though the Windows thing was really funny ๐Ÿ˜‚.

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[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Now wonder, which one is will be preferred by people who aren't tech savvy.

[โ€“] porl@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

They are not likely to be using the terminal. Pretty much every graphical file browser will ask for confirmation upon delete, and many will use a rubbish bin by default.

[โ€“] Ziglin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

To be fair, assuming you are not using a wastebasket which comes pre installed in a lot of distros, you still need the right permissions to delete files that belong to the system and if you're using rm you have to use the -rf option to remove a folder and it's contents.