I mean, right in one of those articles it says that Windows also can destroy your UEFI
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In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System
This New Linux Kernel Update Can Damage Your Laptop Display
There was also a particular optical drive that would brick if installing from a particular I believe Red Hat Linux installation cd, though I can't find a source for this (personal experience with 2 drives - warning was in manual). -This was ~20 years ago.
"Matthew says with about 20 lines of code on Windows, you can cause the same havoc. He points out that mounting EFI variables as read-only could break some user-space applications and isn't the solution to the problem."
As a public service announcement, recursively removing all of your files from / is no longer recommended.
When was it ever recommended?
There's absolutely no reason to do this, ever.
As a public service announcement, recursively removing all of your files from / is no longer recommended.
When was it ever recommended?
There's absolutely no reason to do this, ever.
To remove the French language from your system ofc (rm -fr /)
Do people actually install Linux for their parents and shit? That sounds like a horror story