Even a standard Linux distro is going to protect the system files with proper ownership and permissions on those files. Sure, root can do whatever it wasn’t, but as a normal user permission will be denied. It’s all a question of how hard you want to try to break things. I’m sure trying hard enough you can delete system files on Windows too.
BTW, not just grandmas. A guy in my college dorm in the late ME / early XP days trolled his suite mate into deleting system32. The guy didn’t even get mad, he just sunk into a deep depression as he realized his computer was fucked and a guy he thought was is friend caused him to destroy the computer that held the work he had to turn in that week.
Even a standard Linux distro is going to protect the system files with proper ownership and permissions on those files. Sure, root can do whatever it wasn’t, but as a normal user permission will be denied. It’s all a question of how hard you want to try to break things. I’m sure trying hard enough you can delete system files on Windows too.
BTW, not just grandmas. A guy in my college dorm in the late ME / early XP days trolled his suite mate into deleting system32. The guy didn’t even get mad, he just sunk into a deep depression as he realized his computer was fucked and a guy he thought was is friend caused him to destroy the computer that held the work he had to turn in that week.