rm - rf /* --no-preserve-root
(Note: The above command will wipe all data on the drive, including the removal of the operating system. On Newer Hard Drives, the above command can also damage the drive itself.)
When your pc cannot tell you what you can do or not just use that command to take a control over a your PC.
Because Linux is based on Unix.
It is said that Unix doesn't prevent a user from doing stupid things, because that would necessarily prevent them from doing brilliant things.
It is strange that Jobs is dead and Gates is long retired, yet they are still considered icons of Big Tech. Maybe the current management is using the founders as scapegoats.
I sure do remember that, and the excitement when an image loaded! as you say we have come a long way, also remember the so called tweaks you could do to make things ten minuets faster.