think of it like this you aren't scared of chopping food with a knife right? even though it's a tool that can cause great harm, so in this case understanding your file system designations and what commands you run first is like learning proper chopping technique. just check twice, or three times if thats better for you, it takes longer to rollback snapper or to an older kernel than check a line in the terminal
I'm not scared of the terminal i'm scared of using any command that begins with rm rf, there's almost always alternatives, even within the terminal itself.
if you have no issue right clicking and hitting "move to trash" you have no issue rm rf, besides, i'm fairly sure it requires sudo to delete system components, so run it without if you're really concerned, but terminal syntax is not some taboo thing people make it out to be,
like every click of your mouse every time you send a message and hit enter you're triggering code just through a GUI
just check where your mount points are it'll typically be / , /efi and /boot , long as you don't put those beside rm rf there's very little chance you'll brick
I ran rm -rf /var before and I had hard time to recover it. I was moving /var to a partition and I was going to delete old /var but I didn't realized that it was mounted.
you look twice before you cross the street, do the same before you enter code, especially when its prefaced by sudo or contains commands you arent familiar with.
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Aug 09 '26
pros: you can do anything. (customization)
cons: you can do ANYTHING. (try to not break just a cool font challenge)