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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy 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) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <v1p3bp$2ake7$6@dont-email.me> References: <6638465a$0$8092$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v1b2u5$2ln8f$1@dont-email.me> <v1d5js$37vta$1@dont-email.me> <v1d890$38ipq$3@dont-email.me> <v1dkd3$3bcdt$2@dont-email.me> <v1emo6$3mufo$4@dont-email.me> <v1fr2o$3urp9$2@dont-email.me> <v1gvar$7epl$2@dont-email.me> <663c2441$0$2422109$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v1ie9v$kui4$1@dont-email.me> <663cbda5$2$3711200$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v1kc3n$16ee0$1@dont-email.me> <663e0d28$0$3711195$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 02:43:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="98653f459e1a4c07d89f5088126edc2d"; logging-data="2445767"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/cjZKKHb1fzPlPZbZlHrvA" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YWleUtePwBx40HPE0luJNPT7IdQ= Bytes: 2004 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.