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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the
 greatest PC software available
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 00:43:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On 10 May 2024 12:03:52 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

>> On Linux, many GUI programs save their user prefs in text files, which
>> are easy to manage in this way.
> 
> And if an update goes wrong and locks you out of your system, it also
> locks you out of those preferences.

No it doesn’t. If the internal drive is not bootable, I can boot off 
external media, using a distro purpose-built for this sort of thing, like 
SystemRescue.

On Linux, the most common reasons for an unbootable system are easy to 
fix.