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On Sun, 12 May 2024 00:43:37 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

If you only have one computer, and your system has suddenly become 
unbootable as a result of an update, how will you go about procuring 
SystemRescue?