Which distribution should I recommend to beginners to scare them? - eviltoast
  • dbtng
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    2 days ago

    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.

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        2 days ago

        Um … because its windows. Really. Almost downvoted you for that.

          • dbtng
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            2 days ago

            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.

            • mittorn@masturbated.one
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              2 days ago

              @dbtng You mentioned Win95, which have option to configure different shell (it allowed to select between explorer/progman shell)
              But it allowed to run something in DOS mode before windows starts by editing some bat file (not sure if it’s exactly autoexec.bat)