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Downloaded the virus for Linux. Unzipped it. Installed it under root. It didn’t start. Spent 2 hours googling

    Originally in Russian from a journal log in 2017, its a story of how the Linux user tried to download and run a virus but literally can’t. The story had been translated and became a meme within the Linux community.

    Downloaded the virus for Linux.

Unzipped it.

Installed it under root.

It didn't start. Spent 2 hours googling. Realised that the virus instead of /usr/local/bin installed itself into /usr/bin where user malware does not have the write permissions. That's why the virus could not create a process file.

Found the patched .configure and .make files on the Chinese site. Recompiled, reinstalled. Virus announced that it needs the cmalw-lib-2.0 library. Found out that cmalw-lib-2.0 only exists for CentOs, but not for Ubuntu. Googled couple of hours, found a manual how to compile .deb from source. Compiled, installed, virus happily started, beeped in a speaker and terminated with a core dump.

The hour I spent reading syslog (via Papertrail) told me that the virus thought I have ext4 and called its api to encrypt the disk. This api is deprecated in btrfs, that's why Linux realised that inconsistency and made the partition read-only.

Opened the virus source code, grep'ped the bitcoin wallet and sent $5 just out of compassion.

Went to bed...
    Downloaded a Malware for Linux lately and unpacked it.

Tried to run it as root, didn't work.

Googled for 2 hours, found out that instead of /usr/local/bin the virus unpacked to /usr/bin for which the user malware doesn't have any write permissions, therefore the malware couldn't create a process file.

Found patched.configure and make files on some Chinese forum, recompiled and rerun it.

The malware said it needs the library cmalw-lib-2.0. Turns out cmalw-lib-2.0 is shipped with CentOS but not with Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a .deb package from source.

The malware finally started, wrote some logs, made a core dump and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs I discovered the malware assumed it was running on ext4 and called into its disk encryption API. Under btrfs this API is deprecated. The kernel noticed and made this partition read-only.

Opened the sources, grep'ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity.
    I downloaded a malware binary for Linux lately and unpacked it. Tried to run it as root, but it didn't work. Googled for 2 hours and found out that instead of /usr/local/bin, the malware unpacked to /usr/bin, for which it doesn't have any write permissions. I found a patched .configure and .make file on some Chinese forum, recompiled and re-ran it, but the malware said it needed the cmalw-lib2.0 library, which ships with CentOS but not Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a .deb package from source and installed it. The malware finally started, wrote some logs, wrote a core dump, and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs I discovered the malware assumed an underlying ext4 filesystem and tried to call its disk encryption API (which is deprecated under the btrfs filesystem I use) - the kernel noticed and made the partition read-only to the process. So I got fed up, opened the sources, grep'ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity.

    Венда рулит, а Линух сосет… или о попытке поставить вирус на Линух

    Скачал вирусов себе на линух.
Распаковал.
Поставил под root.
Не завелись. Два часа гуглил, оказалось, вместо /usr/local/bin вирусы стали в папку /usr/bin на которую у юзера malware нет прав на запись, поэтому вирус не может создать файл процесса. Нашел на китайском сайте патченый .configure и .make, пересобрал, переустановил.</p>


Вирус заявил, что ему необходима библиотека cmalw-lib-2.0. Оказалось cmalw-lib-2.0 идет под CentOS, а под убунту ее не было. Гуглил два часа, нашел инструкцию как собрать .deb пакет либы из исходников. Собрал, поставил, вирус радостно запустился, пискнул в спикер и сделал core dump.

Час чтения syslog показал, что вирус думал, что у меня ext4 и вызывал ее api для шифрования диска. В btrfs это api deprecated поэтому линукс, заметив это непотребство, перевел раздел в рид-онли.

В сердцах открыл исходники вируса, grep'нул bitcoin кошелек, отправил туда $5 из жалости и пошел спать...

    Just lost my job because I use Linux

      By u/AlarmedTowel4514, its a shitpost story on how a guy got fired for being a jerk but blamed it on coworkers hating him for using Linux

      Just lost my job because I use Linux

Long story short, was fired because I use Linux.

I work, or rather worked, at a large eu based bank. It’s a fucking windows shitfest, and no one can install any software, because of “security” reasons. Yeah right, then you probably should not use windows in the first place.

Anyway using any other operating system is completely out of the question.

I am, or rather was, somewhat of a star developer in the organization. Mainly because I was the best css engineer, but people also knew me as the “Linux guy” or “advocate”, whatever. I did take it upon me to educate and inform the other employees of how and why Linux is a better and more secure operating system.

Anyway, a month ago or so, my manager comes to me, and says that it looks like he got Linux approved for a POC phase and I was selected to be one of the first tryouts. He was really excited I could tell, probably because I been talking about and asking for approval to use Linux for the last 3 years. Naturally, I asked him how I was compensated for taking on this new massive task, and he said “I thought you would like to work with Linux? Can you please just take the opportunity”. Alright I said. We agreed that next week I could start setting it up as I would get the laptop end of week.

Fast forward to Friday, and he comes down to me with the laptop. I wondered where the flash drive was, because how am I supposed to install arch without it? Any way I open it up while he looks at me with excitement. I see Ubuntu is installed and booting. I instantly slams the laptop closed and says quietly: “I use arch…” he says “what?”. I yelled “I USE ARCH, THIS IS UBUNTU”. He says “what does that mean?”. I just take the laptop and leaves for the day. Educate yourself and you would’ve known.

Next week he comes down to me and asks me why I have canceled all meetings and blocked my calendar for the next 2 weeks. I answered: “I am ricing? Even though you inconsiderate asshole gave me Ubuntu, I still need to rice. That takes hyper focus. How do you think I became the best css engineer?”

He looked confused, I bet the idiot didn’t even know what rice is.

He snapped. Got very angry, and said something like, he was the only person in this organization who actually had my back. Not because of my skills, or knowledge, but because no one else wants to work with our css project.

He asked me to leave immediately and that I was fired…

So there it is. Can’t even use Linux without getting fired. Why do these idiots care what OS I am using, don’t you have better things to do?

      I use Arch, by the way.

        Its a circlejerk on Arch Linux users who have a reputation of being a pretentious jerk online.

        Oh, you're using Windows? That's... unfortunate. I mean, I guess it’s fine for people who don’t really care about controlling their system. And macOS? Bro, you literally paid for UNIX with a pretty UI slapped on it. But hey, I’m sure you really needed those rounded corners and animations. But me? I use Arch, by the way. Yeah, it’s a bit more sophisticated, something you probably wouldn’t understand unless you’ve experienced it.

See, I don’t need a polished GUI or some bloated OS holding my hand through every step of my computing experience. I built my OS from the ground up. I compiled my kernel, optimized every single setting, and customized every aspect of my system. While you’re sitting there with your default settings, I’m in the terminal, living the dream. Arch is freedom, by the way.

I don't expect you to get it. I mean, you probably just double-click apps and call it a day, right? Meanwhile, I'm using Pacman and the AUR, managing my packages like a real power user. Updates? Yeah, they roll in seamlessly. No need to reinstall my OS every six months like those other plebs. Did I mention I use Arch, by the way?

When you’re ready to stop living in the kiddie pool of OSes and step up to the big leagues, maybe you’ll try Arch. Though, let’s be real, it’s probably too advanced for you. But hey, you do you. I'll just be here in my perfectly configured Arch system, reminding you that I use Arch, by the way.

        Parents kicked me out of the house for installing Linux

          Parents kicked me out of the house for installing Linux
          byu/Yelebear inlinuxsucks
          So we are low middle class family, and we share a single computer between the entire household.

Last evening my dad told me my mom is scheduled today for an online remote job interview. I love my mom, so I decided to reformat the computer and install Manjaro Linux to give her a bleeding edge workstation.

 

But she didn't appreciate that. She turned on the computer 15 minutes before her interview and idk what to say... she overreacted a bit. She said she needed Microsoft Teams for the interview, so I explained that Linux is installed in most of the world's online servers, so it should be good enough for her.

She wasn't listening, she asked if I made backups of her digital resume. I said no and then she cried.

So I squeezed her shoulders and told her that it's ok, because the most popular mobile OS is Linux (It's android btw).

 

She kept saying things like "how is that relevant" and "...my usecase", but I've had enough so I grabbed her by the legs and spun her around.

"LINUX..." I said as I spun her

"...RUNS..."

*spin *spin *spin

"...95 PERCENT..."

*spin *spin *spin

"...OF THE WORLD'S SERVERS"

I let go of her legs and she flew across the house.

 

I galloped towards her and I tied her up

"SYSTEM ADMINS PREFER LINUX, THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD USE IT TOO" I calmly explained as I tightened the knots.

Then my dad came into the room and tried to separate us.

"You need to leave" he told me.

"You don't understand," I argued. "Linux runs the world's internet infrastructure. And that's relevant because... because... because it just is, ok?!"

"We've taken care of you for 34 years" My dad replied, "it's time you grow up".

 

So now I'm packing my things, all because my close minded parents aren't willing to learn Linux, (fun fact: it's the number one operating system preferred by system admins)

          My husband has become a vim peasant

            Created by u/gentoogirl, its a circlejerk story on the superiority complex of Linux users.

            When I met my husband 10 yrs ago, he was everything I ever wanted. We met on a freenode IRC channel. He was a Gentoo and Linux-from-scratch dual-booter who could install both systems with his eyes closed. We used to have long, romantic conversations well past midnight about tabs vs spaces and open source. Our first fight ever was about MIT vs GPL licensing. On our first date, we shared our tiling manager config files with each other (this was the first time I truly felt love for a man).

However, lately he’s changed into a husk of the man he used to be. He migrated to Linux Mint, because, and I quote, he “just wants to get work done” and he “no longer has time to fiddle with [his] system”. Then, he started using GNOME for the same reason. This was already very suspicious. I mean, if he truly just wanted to start using a full DE, he could have at least picked KDE, right? Even Xfce I’d have been ok with.

Then, the other day, our relationship hit a breaking point. Here I was, working on my 2012 NixOS thinkpad, and hubby calls me over to his office. He said he “wanted to show me something”. I sit down on his chair, and you can imagine my terror as he pulls up vim on his terminal. He had a weird smile on his face, as if something had taken him over. He spent the next few mins “showing off” a variety of vim tricks he’d just learned. I had to turn my face to the side so he wouldn’t see the tears drying on my cheeks. Let me be clear: This was NOT the man I married.

Our relationship has had its ups and downs, but I never imagined my husband would stoop so low as to become a vim peasant. I don’t know what to do. Part me says I should just start divorce proceedings and get it over with, but the other part can’t help but wonder if perhaps my husband is being afflicted by some serious, undiagnosed mental illness.

Please advise reddit, my whole life is in shambles and I don’t know what to do

            Why I Will Never Use Linux Again

              Why I Will Never Use Linux Again

here is what happened when i installed linux for the first, and hopefully last time. i tried installing it and it didn't go well, so i did what any right-minded person would do and went back to windows. when i was walking home from work that night, Linus Turdvault suddenly approached me. he cornered me in an alley and told me to give him all of my lunch money. i was saving that money to buy Bloomberry Ice Cream tomorrow. so i told the creep to back off, and he called me a normie. then he blew on his viking war horn, prompting all of his fat ugly little penguin minions to corner me and start punching me in the stomach. i begged and pleaded for them to stop but every time they would just chant "user root is not allowed to execute" in unison. it was literally bone-chilling.
i blacked out. when i woke up my galaxy z fold 5 was on the ground in pieces, my 80 dollars was gone from my wallet and the words "skill issue" were written on the pavement in my own blood
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