I bet you thought this was going to be about games, office, and adobe.
"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."
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.
When you tack on what it needs to be a desktop OS, you're tacking on vulnerabilities. Take a point release distro like Debian, and you end up with more out of date packages which adds to vulnerabilities. Also, a web search will reveal decades old issues with Linux used as a server. -It's not bulletproof, we just don't hear about it like we don't hear about Linux much IRL, and it's something evangelists like to suppress.
This forum exists due to brigading, invading, unwelcome evangelism, misinformation, and general conspiracy theory nonsense that has wasted other people's time and energy. If your hobby is to come here and down-doot the hard hitting posts, add your anecdotes, and otherwise pollute / derail this forum -YOU are the problem. YOU are why this is here. YOU are why the moderation here has to be heavy handed. Your activity here just proves our points and fuels us. Linux on its own didn't bring this about.
Don't like it? -Block it. We're here for your victims, not you.
I happened across a mention of a BIOS option that no one else - not the official documentation nor the 99.9% of other forum posters I read - bothered to mention: I needed to switch my hard drive setting from IDE to AHCI.
I used search on the guide here for "AHCI":
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#1-overview
-Not found on those pages.
On reddit, it will eventually break the user experience. (page loading times / errors). Does this site handle the database differently?
The Youtubers generally know not to sink to the community level of toxicity, but they go overboard on positivity and lose credibility.
I bet Jim Jones said something similar once. It's not like the 'hobby' doesn't have a belief system using faith attached.
So you're correcting every lie (of which there are many) in Linux communities then, or is this personal?
Apparently I misunderstood what I was reading and hearing. So, it's Linux users that are cheating so much that they're getting Linux players banned rather than it being Linux enabling them that's the problem.
Linux can and has destroyed hardware
-It also almost had me toss a perfectly good 4TB external drive, and a Bluetooth. (Luckily I checked them on Windows).