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It would be truly impressive if the thousands of developers of the Linux kernel had, over the course of 30 years, managed to create an operating system that phy
by zxexz 6y ago
It would be truly impressive if the thousands of developers of the Linux kernel had, over the course of 30 years, managed to create an operating system that physically destroys your computer. I've half a mind that this comment is meant to be humorous.
Anyway, sounds like your computer repair place was looking for a quick buck. At the very least, they have no idea what they're talking about.
- webmaven 6y ago> It would be truly impressive if the thousands of developers of the Linux kernel had, over the course of 30 years, managed to create an operating system that physically destroys your computer. It used to be possible for malware to damage CPU, RAM, hard-drives, and CRTs deliberately, but the relevant techniques were fairly hardware-specific to begin with, and modern hardware is (for the most part) no longer vulnerable to these classes of attack[0]. But, I guess we don't really know what year this anecdote supposedly occurred. [0] The one modern exception I'm aware of would be flash memory (aka SSDs), which can still be deliberately worn out with a little effort.