What if somebody wrote a virus that infected windows computers to replace the OS with linux? (programming.dev)

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Would their owners even notice?

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

That would be a hell of a virus!

But people would notice, and pretty quickly. Even if this megavirus could somehow manage to do it without data loss, mimicking every aspect of windows perfectly, making file structure work the same, etc; it couldn't do anything about the programs that simply don't work on linux yet.

Once the first person noticed, it would be a huge deal