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madthumbs@lemmy.worldM to Linuxsucks@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Linux can and has destroyed hardware

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Linux can and has destroyed hardware

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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.

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    I mean, right in one of those articles it says that Windows also can destroy your UEFI

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      Right, Windows lives rent free in your head. haha

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      “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.”

      • https://www.phoronix.com/news/UEFI-rm-root-directory
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