/usr actually contains bin (binary files of applications including your shell), share (contains cursors, icons, etc.), and much more. the actual user folder is /home/, it contains downloads, documents, etc.
Know something off? That you had to take ownership of Windows files, then delete it. While, you don't remount the other systems as read-write. What really happens, if we consider that all files are accessible: 1 - MacOS is just like Linux. If you delete the root, both will stay turned on until you reboot and notice that it will go to BIOS instead. 2 - System32 is NOT the Windows system folder, but the Windows binaries folder. Deleting System32 is like deleting /usr on Linux. If Windows were treated as such, it would also delete itself and happen the same as above. If the system still boots, must be a recovery partition that was set aside with it's own EFI partition (UEFI BIOS). But would have to install the system all over again.
I know these folders might not be equivalent to each other. But this video idea started off by "What if you delete system32 on windows" and then adding on top the closest thing in MacOS and Linux. On MacOS, the equivalent of Sys32 is split between multiple different folders, like /System, /usr, /bin and more, but for the sake of simplicity, I picked to delete the System folder. System32 equivalent on linux would be /usr, with a few more. On linux I guess I could have been more accurate and delete something more specific rather than delete root (/) entirely.
I no joke managed to delete the system folder on an old version of mac os (10.4-ish) as a kid. By logging into the computer as a guest. Apparently there were no protections against that. It didn't even do the thing shown in the video, it was just a static error message.
@@asnibzayd7500 bro he just said that mac sends the user to system install while other os doesnt, how in the hell is that gay, no way you are offended by his comment my dude
@@asnibzayd7500 Your behaviour shows your incompetence in accepting other people's opinions on irelevant subjects. Blind with hatered for a operating system you probably never used, crusading for yours as the best. Grow up dude.
"delete system32" in Linux would be "rm -rf /sbin" (and also /lib but that's optional in the case of statically linked init and built-in modules). The rest is superfluous
I unknowingly had actually tried this before and I couldn't install windows again on my laptop. So I installed linux instead and it was quick and works fine.
It is actually a "user" folder of sorts. It was originally meant to be the place where binaries and configuration files would go for programs meant to be used by users. This is why you have directories like /bin and /usr/bin. In modern systems you see them symbolically linked to each other because the distinction became unnecessary over time
Since OS X (predecessor macOS) El Capitan (10.11), They introduced SIP (System Integrity Protection, aka rootless) to prevent these spectific folders. this includes /System, /bin, /sbin, /usr. Furthermore, since macOS Catalina (10.15), they mounts system partition as read-only drive. so that's why partition is seprated as *Macintosh HD* and *Macintosh HD - Data* .
Not only that, but since macOS Big Sur, you not only need to disable SIP, you need to turn off the cryptographic verification off (ie break the seal on the snapshot of the system volume), then reboot, then you can mount the System volume, make the necessary changes to the system volume and then finally bless a new snapshot of the system volume. If you don’t bless the new snapshot of the system volume it will automatically boot up into recovery mode to prompt you to reinstall macOS. The new signed system volume (SSV) requires the cryptographic hashes to match during the boot loader (which occurs even before the Kernel is loaded itself). If it fails the verification process then your system will reboot into recovery mode. Separately to the SSV’s cryptographic hashes (which pretty much stops all malware from ever installing into the system volume) is that macOS now runs on a snapshot of the system volume, so if a system update fails (ie power loss during an update installation), it will fall back on the previous snapshot before the update, thus saving you from having to reinstall macOS entirely.
During XP days I found some disk wipe that actually managed to wipe entire disk and Windows was not able to hold it back. Was interesting to see how programs started to complain how they can no longer access files that were open.
imagine a virus that once downloaded it has the same name of the system like if your on windows the system is "system32" the virus will also be called system32. then it knows what laptop you have and will mimic the name. and you have to delete one of them and if you dont something bad will happen.
The Windows behavior is all too familiar to me. My machine has a bizarre and frustrating issue where once every few months it'll randomly lose connection to one of its storage drives, and sometimes that drive is the boot drive. There's a creeping sense of dread when you wake up your computer and slowly realize things aren't working, as you try to figure out what's going on. Good thing Windows caches so many essential functions in memory!
my College Lab Computers are my test grounds & they all run Ubuntu. Such a Usefull video for a Person like me Thanks! Also i was windering what happenes if you delete other core Folders in linux
/ is actually not the system folder, it's basically the the Windows C: so you basically deleted everything, that's the reason the icons disappeared from the taskbar, you deleted the user's settings at /home/
/usr mean united system ressources, it's like Program Files and ProgramData combined The equivalent of C:\Users on macOS/Linux is /home (/Users on macOS is just a symlink to /home)
On Windows I don't think the core is even a file system so you can't literally delete the core like you can in Linux. If I'm not wrong windows stores the binaries for the core in a separate partition/volume entirely which is read-only unless you do an update and see the BIOS upgrade UI
Oh yeah, somebody deleted system 32 or something on a computer I had when I was younger and literally hacked my desktop thing, probably with a RAT and when I booted it up it was just a black screen(as it literally would not boot). Yeah, that's why you got to be careful what sites you visit, what you download, and make sure to have a good operating system and/or antivirus, I say that because Linux usually doesn't have or need one.
It's funny how the command to "delete the Linux system" doesn't work on Android (which is also Linux-based). Well, it *DOES* shows the error messages about the read-only filesystem, but apparently, the phone/tablet is still alive. It just shuts down for a certain time, but them you can turn it on again and boot into recovery/fastboot modes. The first time you type the command, it actually formats the whole Android OS and gets back to the setup screen. The second time you type the command it just deletes the OS from the phone, but still keeps the rest of the partitions intact. I've typed the command at the TWRP recovery on an old Motorola G2 and got surprised by how the phone was still alive after literally typing the command *TWICE!!!* Pretty funny, right?
Because remounting the system root as read-write would require you to disable SIP, and even then it probably wouldn't let you delete anything. Also, the firmware (including recovery) is stored on a separate APFS container that is not mounted at runtime, which on the other hand you can remove (and effectively break your entire macOS installation) without any errors.
@anonymouspuppy apple mobile operating systems dont come with a functional /bin anymore, but you can install them if you had any sort of communication with the device
I have actually deleted the os from my macbook once before I decided to try out bootcamp on my old intel macbook air because there was a game i wanted to play but wasnt available on macos, and you were supposed to allot a certain amount of storage for windows to function. I wanted to try to edit the amount of storage i gave to windows since it was more than i wanted, and I accidentally ended up deleting macos from my laptop completely and it just went straight into windows. I was so screwed and plus this was during covid so i had an online class in a few minutes and had to last minute email my teacher that i wouldnt be able to make it due to technical difficulties (i was in high school) So there i was frantically trying to look up tutorials on how to download mac os from the recovery screen yada yada. And that was i think what made my macbook so infuriating to use since every so often the fans would kick up like crazy it drove me nuts and it would get so hotttt. Like I actually wanted to throw it out the window so many times, thankfully i traded it in for a m2. Moral of the story, dont mess with bootcamp unless you dgaf.
i remember deleting system 32 back in 2009 when i was in 9th grade. it was still functioning but i use to get lot of errors dialogue box and cmd errors.
Can you go in depth on the protections and how easy it is to remove etc because I remember getting a lot of permissions on windows by accident when trying to remove stuff for privacy.
This is not possible Thing i am watching this video on is an unrooted android os And removing a non root os is not possible by just executing sudo rm -rf /*. You have to use twrp instead and wipe system partition but it is not possible because i can just reinstall the os through twrp
linux is a kernel not an operating system.(you guys have probably heard that enough), also you forgot the rest of the os's based on unix, like bsd and freebsd, and unix itself, along with MS-DOS, if you count that as a seperate operating system from windows
Hold up, isnt called OS. The correct terminology is MS-DOS. You can reset without doing bios. Each windows program has a reset. You cant remove files as theres backup files saved even on harddrive. If the computer isnt registered to you, you cant remove files or cause sabotage to the computer.
Sí eliminas a System después de reiniciar la computadora ya no puede prender más una vez has eliminado nunca puedes deshacer de esa acción y también tiene que reinstalarlo
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Wdym sudo rm rf is deleting the 'French langauge pack'
bro
sudo rm -fr
The french pack sucks! It doesn't even have the french narrator! That's why you have to delete it!
@@Samuel4KplusHDD t'as dit quoi là ?!
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/usr actually contains bin (binary files of applications including your shell), share (contains cursors, icons, etc.), and much more. the actual user folder is /home/, it contains downloads, documents, etc.
Roger that. I made a spelling mistake in the video it seems.
@@datastream_ytIt's fine, we all call it as "user" anyway
me when i get my classmate's pc:
del /S /F /Q C:\Windows\System32
you can do that?
@276- yes! not lie! my classmate sometimes brings laptop! also he's allows me to take this laptop!
@@276- yep
OH SHI-
Evil
spoiler alert: the system gets deleted
Damn why you spoil it for me I was waiting to see the outcome.
@@Timely-ud4rm you weren't, you were reading comments instead
sherlock
@@Timely-ud4rm
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Omg I totally didn’t expected that.
Know something off? That you had to take ownership of Windows files, then delete it.
While, you don't remount the other systems as read-write.
What really happens, if we consider that all files are accessible:
1 - MacOS is just like Linux. If you delete the root, both will stay turned on until you reboot and notice that it will go to BIOS instead.
2 - System32 is NOT the Windows system folder, but the Windows binaries folder. Deleting System32 is like deleting /usr on Linux. If Windows were treated as such, it would also delete itself and happen the same as above.
If the system still boots, must be a recovery partition that was set aside with it's own EFI partition (UEFI BIOS). But would have to install the system all over again.
I know these folders might not be equivalent to each other. But this video idea started off by "What if you delete system32 on windows" and then adding on top the closest thing in MacOS and Linux.
On MacOS, the equivalent of Sys32 is split between multiple different folders, like /System, /usr, /bin and more, but for the sake of simplicity, I picked to delete the System folder.
System32 equivalent on linux would be /usr, with a few more. On linux I guess I could have been more accurate and delete something more specific rather than delete root (/) entirely.
The old video about macOS system folder is private, very happy they brought it back 😊
Made a better version of it :)
My question is how much money did you waste just to remove macOS off of a MacBook or Mac mini? Or did you buy a cheap ass old apple computer?
@@Timely-ud4rm you know you can just reinstall it
@@Timely-ud4rm ur dumb
@@Timely-ud4rm he did it on a virtual machine
I no joke managed to delete the system folder on an old version of mac os (10.4-ish) as a kid. By logging into the computer as a guest. Apparently there were no protections against that. It didn't even do the thing shown in the video, it was just a static error message.
Damn💀
I really like the way Mac handles this. Just straight up sends you to system install.
u probably gay or under 15, nigha its just simple coding, but windows atleast stood a chance
@@asnibzayd7500 bro he just said that mac sends the user to system install while other os doesnt, how in the hell is that gay, no way you are offended by his comment my dude
@@asnibzayd7500 Your behaviour shows your incompetence in accepting other people's opinions on irelevant subjects. Blind with hatered for a operating system you probably never used, crusading for yours as the best.
Grow up dude.
@@asnibzayd7500 I bet bro is a gaming addict child who loves his 2 hours battery backup windows laptop🤡
@@asnibzayd7500 do you actually program anything with real coding languages, and not dogshit like scratch or pocket code?
Straight to the point, explanations included, nicely edited. Subbed, keep it up mate
Thanks! :)
I'll always love how Mac and Linux are like brothers or cousin kernels, and then Windows is just something completely different 😂😂😂
They both use the Unix philosophy, but they are actually quite different. Mac is closer to FreeBSD and some consider it to be a BSD itself.
macos and linux are beautiful, windows is scuffed.
"delete system32" in Linux would be "rm -rf /sbin" (and also /lib but that's optional in the case of statically linked init and built-in modules). The rest is superfluous
2:20 "wether I want to end its suffering? Which I didn't." 😂 Fun video.
I unknowingly had actually tried this before and I couldn't install windows again on my laptop. So I installed linux instead and it was quick and works fine.
2:16 i see this error everytime i play geometry dash
me when the 2.2 shaders kicks in
When I'm playing a 2.2 level and suddenly I see a shader trigger:
Me when playing Noel Electra:
GOD THE /usr folder IS NOT THE USER FOLDER WHY DON'T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS!! THE USER FOLDER IS /home/username NOT /usr
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Still it reads USeR
@@AAKalam no, its pronounced U.S.R thats my opinion
@@AAKalam but a lot of people just misunderstand it
It's obviously OUR folder since usr = United Soviet Russia
It is actually a "user" folder of sorts. It was originally meant to be the place where binaries and configuration files would go for programs meant to be used by users. This is why you have directories like /bin and /usr/bin. In modern systems you see them symbolically linked to each other because the distinction became unnecessary over time
Since OS X (predecessor macOS) El Capitan (10.11), They introduced SIP (System Integrity Protection, aka rootless) to prevent these spectific folders. this includes /System, /bin, /sbin, /usr.
Furthermore, since macOS Catalina (10.15), they mounts system partition as read-only drive. so that's why partition is seprated as *Macintosh HD* and *Macintosh HD - Data* .
Not only that, but since macOS Big Sur, you not only need to disable SIP, you need to turn off the cryptographic verification off (ie break the seal on the snapshot of the system volume), then reboot, then you can mount the System volume, make the necessary changes to the system volume and then finally bless a new snapshot of the system volume. If you don’t bless the new snapshot of the system volume it will automatically boot up into recovery mode to prompt you to reinstall macOS.
The new signed system volume (SSV) requires the cryptographic hashes to match during the boot loader (which occurs even before the Kernel is loaded itself). If it fails the verification process then your system will reboot into recovery mode.
Separately to the SSV’s cryptographic hashes (which pretty much stops all malware from ever installing into the system volume) is that macOS now runs on a snapshot of the system volume, so if a system update fails (ie power loss during an update installation), it will fall back on the previous snapshot before the update, thus saving you from having to reinstall macOS entirely.
"we type this compleatly harmless command" got me
During XP days I found some disk wipe that actually managed to wipe entire disk and Windows was not able to hold it back. Was interesting to see how programs started to complain how they can no longer access files that were open.
1:51 - Maybe you have a 32 bits version of winamp. As I know, all files needed for windows to execute 32 bits applications located in SysWow64 folder.
imagine a virus that once downloaded it has the same name of the system like if your on windows the system is "system32" the virus will also be called system32. then it knows what laptop you have and will mimic the name. and you have to delete one of them and if you dont something bad will happen.
Wake up babe, our favourite mac os youtuber posted. Data stream 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Now that i can understand 😎
The Windows behavior is all too familiar to me. My machine has a bizarre and frustrating issue where once every few months it'll randomly lose connection to one of its storage drives, and sometimes that drive is the boot drive. There's a creeping sense of dread when you wake up your computer and slowly realize things aren't working, as you try to figure out what's going on. Good thing Windows caches so many essential functions in memory!
3:14 it's usr as Universal System Resources so it's also a system file
my College Lab Computers are my test grounds & they all run Ubuntu. Such a Usefull video for a Person like me Thanks!
Also i was windering what happenes if you delete other core Folders in linux
I have a video on deleting core Linux folders on my channel. Check it out :)
/ is actually not the system folder, it's basically the the Windows C: so you basically deleted everything, that's the reason the icons disappeared from the taskbar, you deleted the user's settings at /home/
/usr mean united system ressources, it's like Program Files and ProgramData combined
The equivalent of C:\Users on macOS/Linux is /home (/Users on macOS is just a symlink to /home)
On MacOS and Windows you only deleted important system folders and on Linux the whole `/`? Something doesn't add up here
On Windows I don't think the core is even a file system so you can't literally delete the core like you can in Linux.
If I'm not wrong windows stores the binaries for the core in a separate partition/volume entirely which is read-only unless you do an update and see the BIOS upgrade UI
How did you record the screen?
It must have beein either a virtual machine or a capture card
Screen recording software. And virtual machines!
Oh yeah, somebody deleted system 32 or something on a computer I had when I was younger and literally hacked my desktop thing, probably with a RAT and when I booted it up it was just a black screen(as it literally would not boot). Yeah, that's why you got to be careful what sites you visit, what you download, and make sure to have a good operating system and/or antivirus, I say that because Linux usually doesn't have or need one.
You can load into bios and format the storage where you have windows on and reinstall it again from a usb stick.
You didnt just delete the System, you deleted everything including your user folder in Linux.
Even after that, files should still be recoverable after removing your drive of choice from the PC.
0:22 NOOOOOOOOO IT'S NOT LINUX !! IT'S UNIX AND IT'S NOT THE SAME !!!! YOU WILL CONFUSE NEWBEES LIKE I DID !!
He said similarly to how it is
@clearlyblotted oh sorry my english is bad
he didn't say it was linux he said it was LIKE linux
@@ShadowPlushGaming god forbid you read the replies
omg thank you so much for this tutorial! tf2 runs so much smoother for me now!
It went from educational to threatening in 4 minutes 🤣
Nice video! Also, merry chistmas, or should I say "merry chistmac"? But fr, merry Christmas data!
Haha nice to see you again, KV21YT. Merry christmas! :)
@@datastream_yt mery christmas bro
This is what I always loved about my Atari.
You'd need a grinder to get rid of the TOS Chip.
Windows taskbar is like the dock/dash and the menu bar/topbar combined
what about templeOS?
fireOS
God will not allow you /j
Let’s do templeOS please 😊 also I think that this video is going to blow up viral!
the computer turn into wine
Freebsd
It's funny how the command to "delete the Linux system" doesn't work on Android (which is also Linux-based). Well, it *DOES* shows the error messages about the read-only filesystem, but apparently, the phone/tablet is still alive. It just shuts down for a certain time, but them you can turn it on again and boot into recovery/fastboot modes. The first time you type the command, it actually formats the whole Android OS and gets back to the setup screen. The second time you type the command it just deletes the OS from the phone, but still keeps the rest of the partitions intact. I've typed the command at the TWRP recovery on an old Motorola G2 and got surprised by how the phone was still alive after literally typing the command *TWICE!!!*
Pretty funny, right?
why not do "sudo rm -rf /" on macos too? you can probably destroy the non firmware recovery that way too
Because remounting the system root as read-write would require you to disable SIP, and even then it probably wouldn't let you delete anything. Also, the firmware (including recovery) is stored on a separate APFS container that is not mounted at runtime, which on the other hand you can remove (and effectively break your entire macOS installation) without any errors.
you can't rm rf my device, it's an android but oem unlocking is not available due to verizon.
OEM unlocking is always possible.
Meet pointy probes
when my mom wants to check my pc:
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
why, just why, just tjen dont do naughty things
3:54 But I am watching on a iPad
iPadOS is technically Unix based so sudo rm -rf would work
@anonymouspuppy apple mobile operating systems dont come with a functional /bin anymore, but you can install them if you had any sort of communication with the device
IPad are based on ipadOs, which is based on ios, which is based on macos, which is based on Linux SO your iPad basically runs Linux
@@Alex_Official4493 macOS is not based on Linux. macOS using XNU that based on Darwin and some FreeBSD elements.
@@Alex_Official4493 no, macOS is based off UNIX
You should have tried to boot back in to see how far it gets in the boot process
I have actually deleted the os from my macbook once before
I decided to try out bootcamp on my old intel macbook air because there was a game i wanted to play but wasnt available on macos, and you were supposed to allot a certain amount of storage for windows to function. I wanted to try to edit the amount of storage i gave to windows since it was more than i wanted, and I accidentally ended up deleting macos from my laptop completely and it just went straight into windows. I was so screwed and plus this was during covid so i had an online class in a few minutes and had to last minute email my teacher that i wouldnt be able to make it due to technical difficulties (i was in high school)
So there i was frantically trying to look up tutorials on how to download mac os from the recovery screen yada yada. And that was i think what made my macbook so infuriating to use since every so often the fans would kick up like crazy it drove me nuts and it would get so hotttt. Like I actually wanted to throw it out the window so many times, thankfully i traded it in for a m2.
Moral of the story, dont mess with bootcamp unless you dgaf.
I actually worked with a guy that was talking about deleting the system folders. He wanted to get some file space back.😂 I talked him out of it.
Спасибо, за то, что ты сломал 3 системы ради нас!😊 / Thank you for breaking 3 systems for us!😊
Ohh gosh, I almost peed on my pants with that ending treat😅😅😅
You're voice is good man❤
Wow, I've learned so much ...
I deleted entire c drive on windows thinking I'm just removing cache but it took out my license lmao
Okay Susan but that's not possible.
@alifnaufal did you try it
Clean install of windows fixes everything, even this
3:54 good luck using the command on mobile because it doesn’t have command prompt or terminal (at least I don’t think so)
If you root your device you van access terminal
Linux users installing Chrome: 😰😰
Linux users deleting System folder: 🙂🥱
Delicious video. But also not something I want to try on my main PC.
video made on my birthday!
For linux, if it most say read-only
Perform mount -o remount,rw /
Then delete /!
Progressbar95:🙂
Mac, Linux, macbook:💀
Fun fact: If you get an error on windows. Press the text. Then Press Ctrl+C. Next open notepad and then paste it on notepad
Idea for the next video: performing system folder deletion on mobile device operating systems (reference to the outro threat)
what a bad Christmas present for these OS' lol
yo ur video get boosted love it 💖
What do you mean boosted?
@datastream_yt bruh view's bro 🥲
Windows : Your pc will blast and ur family will be arrested
MacOs : Idk but not recommended
Linux : GO ahead lol, no one cares
can you try deleting bios??
Lol it'll just permanently brick the PC, nothing spectacular
i remember deleting system 32 back in 2009 when i was in 9th grade. it was still functioning but i use to get lot of errors dialogue box and cmd errors.
Now I know how to prank my cousin
0:00
but i dont use Windows...how is it *my* computer...
Can you go in depth on the protections and how easy it is to remove etc because I remember getting a lot of permissions on windows by accident when trying to remove stuff for privacy.
2:02 how the hell was that screen recorder running!
Virtual machine, the recording software was probably running on the host machine not in the one that got "corrupted"
so does that mean that deleting the system 32 from the get folder does not work?
This is not possible
Thing i am watching this video on is an unrooted android os
And removing a non root os is not possible by just executing sudo rm -rf /*.
You have to use twrp instead and wipe system partition but it is not possible because i can just reinstall the os through twrp
No mention of BSD, Solaris, or TempleOS?
So it makes Windows good again ah?
linux is a kernel not an operating system.(you guys have probably heard that enough), also you forgot the rest of the os's based on unix, like bsd and freebsd, and unix itself, along with MS-DOS, if you count that as a seperate operating system from windows
why only three os? what about BSD or Haiku OS?
/usr isnt User... It's Unix System Resources
If I don't do any terminal commands to enable deletion of important files, could I delete everything on MacOS safely?
What's the command to possess Sys32?
2:16 the application not rrsponding is Explorer.exe
Windows is kinda like if you delete all of their "modern options" and let the system stay on modules with codebase much older than VisualBasic 6 😅
Wow ! screen recording still going on
he's doing this on virtual machines, I guesd
Why you didn't restart windows os ?
Root is not a system folder. It's Root's home folder. Your system folder would probably be a mix between/etc, /bin, /boot, and /lib
How to explode all the system in the world-
Finally a Windows without the bloat.
What about reactOS
I had heart attack watching this
2:00 min in, calling ms help desk. Telling them you are complaining about using windows. After deleting windows.😂
guys if you think:"did he just buyed such expesnive OS's for nothing?" you are wrong he is using virtual box or vmware
templeos not mentioned
Wait. How did he screen record?
Probably screen cap.
He uses a virtual machine
@@TheLegendOptimus ohk
@Chief... ohk
Hold up, isnt called OS. The correct terminology is MS-DOS. You can reset without doing bios. Each windows program has a reset. You cant remove files as theres backup files saved even on harddrive. If the computer isnt registered to you, you cant remove files or cause sabotage to the computer.
it needs the user to be an administrator to do the command in windows
Is it possible with Tizen? I was looking for how to remove viruses and find this video.
what if someone is warching it on a smart phone ?
did you know, that "sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root "/"" give you free disk space?
And now: what will happen on an analog computer? 😆
very cool :D
rm rf at Linux this a self-destructon command
Sí eliminas a System después de reiniciar la computadora ya no puede prender más una vez has eliminado nunca puedes deshacer de esa acción y también tiene que reinstalarlo
Por favor no intentes en casa