On Fri, 2022-10-28 at 20:27 +0000, Jake D wrote:
I really can't believe that these Linux systems are so fragile
and
the ONLY option is to start over, is there nothing like Resotre
Points in windows?
Hmm, hahaha, is this a troll?
Was there anything ever more self-destructive than Windows? It
regularly shot itself in the foot, you didn't even have to do anything.
Yes, you can have a backup and restore kind of thing on Linux. But you
have to set something up first. If you haven't done that, then you can
boot from something else and put back the files you destroyed. Or you
can re-install.
Windows was exactly the same. If you didn't prepare ahead of time for
the oncoming disaster, your recourse was usually a re-install. With
all the fun and games that involved for your OS and all your programs,
finding all your registration details, or paying for them again because
you can't.
Likewise with Macs. If you want restore points, or whatever name they
call it, you have to set it up beforehand.
I can't say that I've ever hosed a Linux install in the somewhere
around 20 years I've been using it for. But I've had Windows bollix
itself up quite severely, many times. It does it all by itself quite
happily, *you* don't have to be messing around with system files for it
to kill itself. It can mangle its brains simply booting up or shutting
down, and doing a Windows update that it controlled entirely by itself
was another round of russian roulette.
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