As I mentioned in the April Fool's Day topic, my prank is going to include reversable computer sabotage. Because none of my family members are on CC (yet), I thought I'd post my plan on here for you guys to see. If you want, you could try it yourself.

The target is the family general-purpose PC, which runs Linux Mint. The prank is I'm going to try to trick people into thinking I've installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition on it. For those of you who don't know the deal with Ubuntu netbook, it's pretty much just the most hated version of Ubuntu ever. Here's a screenshot:



Imagine using that on a desktop PC.

The catch is that the target PC has a bunch of valuable stuff on it that I don't want to damage. Thankfully, I have a 100% identical PC lying around in my room.

This spare PC is pretty much doing nothing whatsoever. It's also the same model as the target PC. So, I hopped on over to the Ubuntu website, downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 Beta 1 Netbook Edition (which is over two years old at this point, by the way), and burned it onto a CD.

Right now, Ubuntu Netbook is installing. The plan is to remove the target PC from its usual place, and put the booby trapped PC in there. The next person to boot the computer will get a really outdated version of Unity.