• kautau@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly you shouldn’t run commands on any OS if you don’t know what they are doing. An elevated powershell command or something on a Mac with SIP disabled (which some “tutorials” will call for) can also do horrible things to a machine

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Also any automatic modification of config files (with echo and tee) can screw up your configuration without you knowing what it changed. It’s better to just edit config files while reading the comments inside or the man page.