I’ll bet your boot process is a lot shorter too.

Ah. Whoosh on me I guess.

Wait, wut?

You are correct, left hand is a fork bomb. Specifically, it creates and then runs a function named “:”. What this function does is pipe its output into itself while running in a background process, which instantly spawns infinite copies of itself. Technically I believe the : character could be any character as its just a name. The creator just picked a colon for aesthetics.

Found the person who’s never used tar :-P

Yeah, what kind of idiot doesn’t parallelize their timer function.

… aaaaaand you’ve killed us all.

Yeah, general practice is to either elevate privelige by switching accounts, or by using sudo. Having both just increases your attack surface to no practical benefit (especially since you can technically still switch to a root account with “sudo - i” even if you’re going the sudo route).

You did. If you leave your root password blank it’ll automatically add the user account you create in the following step to sudo and disable the root account.

If you want to have both a root account and a user account with sudo, you’ll have to do that manually, but that’s a pretty unusual setup.

Some wifi drivers. It’s because of the Debian philosophy of never using non-free (as in speech, not beer) software.