Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhich distribution should I recommend to beginners to scare them?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square115linkfedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down121
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minus-squaredbtng@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoWe used to do this back in the day with Win95. You could change their shell to Notepad or something, and then that’s all the computer would run. It was a slightly moar advanced trick than stealing their mouse ball.
minus-squaremittorn@masturbated.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day ago@dbtng @gwilikers why not just adding DOOM to autoexec.bat?
minus-squaredbtng@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 day agoUm … because its windows. Really. Almost downvoted you for that.
minus-squaredbtng@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoIndeed. I guess OP was looking for something besides windows tho … and I’m just teasing, of course. I’ve got several Linux hosts running right now, but I’m typing on Win11.
We used to do this back in the day with Win95.
You could change their shell to Notepad or something, and then that’s all the computer would run.
It was a slightly moar advanced trick than stealing their mouse ball.
@dbtng @gwilikers why not just adding DOOM to autoexec.bat?
Um … because its windows. Really. Almost downvoted you for that.
@dbtng but win95 boots DOS first
Indeed. I guess OP was looking for something besides windows tho …
and I’m just teasing, of course. I’ve got several Linux hosts running right now, but I’m typing on Win11.