I see this shit every day. You know why? User base.
Linux doesn’t have to worry about grandma using it. The vast majority of the Linux user base is technologically adept humans that know not to remove the bootloader.
But you know for a fact that grandmas were trolled into or accidentally removed system files so often that Microsoft did something about it.
Also note, Chromebooks - which use a Linux adjacent os that is marketed to a wide audience including kids and the elderly - doesn’t let you do shit to system files. Android and Steam Deck are also highly locked down.
The point is its a wierd flex to say that linux gives sudo users the power to break your system when its really just saying your os is too niche to have to worry about grandma.
Even a standard Linux distro is going to protect the system files with proper ownership and permissions on those files. Sure, root can do whatever it wasn’t, but as a normal user permission will be denied. It’s all a question of how hard you want to try to break things. I’m sure trying hard enough you can delete system files on Windows too.
BTW, not just grandmas. A guy in my college dorm in the late ME / early XP days trolled his suite mate into deleting system32. The guy didn’t even get mad, he just sunk into a deep depression as he realized his computer was fucked and a guy he thought was is friend caused him to destroy the computer that held the work he had to turn in that week.
So literally the same things as any other Linux distro… To delete the bootloader, you don’t just need to select a folder in your home directory with your mouse and click delete, it’s a little bit more complicated than that, despite it not being hard for any person who knows how to run a command and know the basics.
I see this shit every day. You know why? User base.
Linux doesn’t have to worry about grandma using it. The vast majority of the Linux user base is technologically adept humans that know not to remove the bootloader.
But you know for a fact that grandmas were trolled into or accidentally removed system files so often that Microsoft did something about it.
Also note, Chromebooks - which use a Linux adjacent os that is marketed to a wide audience including kids and the elderly - doesn’t let you do shit to system files. Android and Steam Deck are also highly locked down.
The point is its a wierd flex to say that linux gives sudo users the power to break your system when its really just saying your os is too niche to have to worry about grandma.
Even a standard Linux distro is going to protect the system files with proper ownership and permissions on those files. Sure, root can do whatever it wasn’t, but as a normal user permission will be denied. It’s all a question of how hard you want to try to break things. I’m sure trying hard enough you can delete system files on Windows too.
BTW, not just grandmas. A guy in my college dorm in the late ME / early XP days trolled his suite mate into deleting system32. The guy didn’t even get mad, he just sunk into a deep depression as he realized his computer was fucked and a guy he thought was is friend caused him to destroy the computer that held the work he had to turn in that week.
I can do whatever I want! I’m going to mount my btrfs root partition to a home folder and
rm -r ./*all my subvoSteam Deck is not locked down, you can enable super user access and filesystem management with two simple commands
2 simple commands many wouldn’t even know where to input.
isnt that the point tho
So literally the same things as any other Linux distro… To delete the bootloader, you don’t just need to select a folder in your home directory with your mouse and click delete, it’s a little bit more complicated than that, despite it not being hard for any person who knows how to run a command and know the basics.
It’s protected enough from the layman, at least
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flex