Windows: “I’m trying really hard to be your friend, please love me”

Linux: “Lol you wanna fuck around and find out? Go ahead dude IDGAF”

The fun part is that I've actually done the "delete the bootloader" on purpose. We did it for operating systems class and then manually did the disk partition calculations to directly write a new bootloader into place. Once you've done that a few times you start to really really understand how the superblock, bootloader, and partitions work.

Bad time for a typo. Can't*

One thing I miss from Reddit is that all this software/hardware supremacy bullshit died out years ago.

I’m so fucking sick of these memes

This joke is explained with a story by Neal Stephenson in his "The Hole Hawg of Operating systems". It's a short, but great read: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html

To quote:

"But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner's product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user's failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it."

Story time: In 1994 my friends dad still had a PC running DOS/Windows 3.1

My friend and I had been downloading pron clips from a local BBS that were all in a *.dl file format.

My friend got anxious his father would find the porn and he would get in trouble, so in a command line for DOS, he typed:

C:\> del *.dl

Which the computer read as del *.dl* which meant within seconds it was deleting every Dynamic Link Library on the PC, and in short order it crashed and then would not boot.

So yes, especially in older Windows systems, you could delete all kinds of shit to bork it.

I mean, there's a reason they don't let you delete system32 anymore

It's like one of the earliest troubleshooting joke memes. It just so happens people actually did that, and not because they wanted to do that.

But like on earlier versions of Windows you could absolutely delete any folder on the drive. I think there's even a story about an uninstaller that accidentally deleted the entire root of the drive because it wasn't written correctly.

Yep, this was me a few weeks ago. I was running widows and linux dualboot on separate hard drives. I decided to reformat the windows drive since I was never using it. Apparently I had installed the bootloader to the drive which windows was on...

dd stands for disk destroyer.

If you're running Linux with the French language add-on installed, you can delete it:

rm -fr /

I have done this a few days ago and im still struggling to set it back up but I like the freedom

I had a dream the other night that I accidentally deleted the ls command and it broke a bunch of shit on my linux server.

Yet it still booted, and my mdadm raid array was still intact. I had to boot from a live CD to copy the command over.

As someone who knows enough about linux to run a ubuntu file server, but has never contributed to a meaningful open source project in his life, is this something that can actually happen?

System32 is not the bootloader. You can delete it all day long once you change permissions and unhide it.

When I first started using Arch Linux I swear I deleted my bootloader on accident like 4 times lol.

Nothing like disabling the screen in the BIOS/UEFI. Guaranteed adrenaline

All fun and games until immutable systems are the future of Linux

Immutable Distro says noooooo~

Don't make a motherfucker...

Diskpart

Now yall did it

It's going to happen several times a year, regardless you remove or not

Rm /bin/rm