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[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I browse by /New and I see the same question over and over. Why? I mean... what's the point? I'm pretty sure you're not a chatbot, but what you are doing is very inefficient. When I started learning Linux, fucking things up was mandatory to learn, and deleting a directory would have been done in a few hours without previous knowledge.

You have been working on this stupid folder for days. A name that will never exist in a real situation. My advice: uninstall WSL, reinstall WSL, and move on.

[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 3 days ago

Are you serious about that ? Me uninstalling wsl and then reinstalling it ??

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Yes. It's a 15 minutes job. I did the equivalent a hundred times when I was learning, and I had no web site or community to help me.

RTFM, lurk more, etc.

[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago

Probably there was no internet ??

But you had some professor to guide you, but l'm doing an online course. There's a help community on discord, which l found very unhelpful.

I installed the WSL with the instructions of Gemini, but l've got to use my discernment while using such instructions.

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But you had some professor to guide you,

No, only man pages.

Have you uninstalled WSL yet? Here: https://superuser.com/q/1317883. Also AI sucks, read the official documentation from Microsoft.

[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago
[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

First sentences:

The WSL commands below are listed in a format supported by PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt. To run these commands from a Bash / Linux distribution command line, you must replace wsl with wsl.exe

wsl.exe --uninstall or something

[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago
[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Less replying, more typing. Unplug your ethernet cable for better learning.

[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago

I followed your words, and now my everything is gone. Pure whitewash !!

[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago
[-] TheViking@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'll be sitting down at the laptop a bit later.

That's a super link. Thanks ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š

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