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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just tried the fork bomb on Termux. That was way more effective than I expected. It actually crashed the whole system. Even my smart band disconnected, so basically everything had to die. No response to short pressing power button.

I thought Android would have some better process management. Apparently not. It's scary that an app can crash the whole system so easily.

Meanwhile when I tried it on Linux Mint, the DE just restarted after a minute, killing the processes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's scary that an app can crash the whole system so easily

That's Linux baby!

Windows User: "Hey run this to crash my computer."

Windows: "No"

Mac User: "Hey run this to crash my computer."

Mac: "No" (but in a nicer font)

Linux User: "Hey run this to crash my computer."

Linux: [instantly crashes]