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Author: Rainer Weikusat
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI
Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> writes:
> There seems to be an assumption that everybody is a 'power user' and
> knows exactly what they are doing.
> The reality is not like that at all.
> Leaving nasty surprises for the unwary and inexperienced is at worst
> malicious and at best incompetent.


How does this apply to someone who executed a command "because he wanted
to watch GNOME die" after "he unmounted all important filesystem" or -
more accurately - wrongly believed to have done so?

> I would guess that most of us here have googled for the answer to some
> programming or scripting conundrum, and how many stackoverflow etc
> answers did you have to go through to find an answer that was correct?
> Far too many.


How does this apply to the situation?

> Now imagine the poor sod new to all this... It is most emphatically
> not gross neglect on the part of the user.


The 'poor sod' wasn't "new to all of this".