I almost did rm -rf / as root on my computer, but Ubuntu actually stopped me from doing it, even as root, saying it was too dangerous. Props, Ubuntu. You saved my hard drive.

Yup, ubuntu checks this type of thinga

@linuxer4fun windoes doesn't when u delete system32

Actually it's coreutils (Linux version) that has saved you. The "rm" utility refuses to delete root without a special argument.

And I also heard that mac's coreutils (more like BSD version) does not have such protection? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Really, how often do you people need to delete System32, or do rm -rf /? Is that like a daily thing? I have never had to do that in 20 years?!

@hexchain I THINK that the Mac has a special layer of protection that prevents you from doing things like access files outside of your user area (even as root) without changing some default security setting, although I may be wrong...

Were you playing the Unix Roulette?

Why do people even try that? How did you even get close to do it? Wtf?

Protip: Debian has a "saferm" package, that prevents you from deleting important directories

@Mitch377 and the complain about Linux because you did something stupid and it didn't stop you? It can't win either way can it? :P