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        Only Arch doesn’t make sense though. Livebooting Debian KDE for Gparted is easier than working with fdisk etc. to eg. move a partition.

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          Depends on how you break it. Broken partitions? Sure, Gparted it is. Everything else? Most often can be fixed with a quick arch-chroot and then undoing whatever caused the mess.

          So yeah, I agree with the Ventoy suggestion. Such a neat little tool that it’s earned it’s place on my key-chain.

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        It’s definitely something you should have lying around for exactly this kind of contingency. That goes for Windows too, btw. Windows installations also get borked and having a Linux live system available can be a life saver.

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          I’ve managed MSP services and this is hog wash. In 6 years of providing Linux, Windows, and OSX I can’t recall a single instance of windows bricking itself without kernel level software running in the background. And those instances are partition errors done outside of windows land.

          You have to be trying to brick Windows these days to get to an unbootable state.

          I on the other hand have multiple team members running random distos fuck up video drivers to the point where we had to wipe everything clean. And Linux computers were given out at a rate of like 1 for every 20 mac or osx machine.

          So sure you could carry this around at all times but it’s not going to be helpful for 99% of users in reality.

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            So there haven’t been any problems with Windows updates recently? I’m happy things are running well in your particular shop. But that’s not the regular experience of every business let alone home user.

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              So what, we’re just making shit up now? Windows computers bricking themselves in secret? Business across the planet dealing with Windows breaking on updates? What subset of home users are you claiming have issues with windows looking itself on update?

              Not this vague bullshit.

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            There have definitively been multiple times windows systems bricked themselves on me without it being my fault

            It’s not rarer than Linux systems bricking in my experience. In addition, Linux systems tend to be a lot more fixable, but with windows being just a black box sometimes you’re just shit out of luck and have to reinstall

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              👌👍 I guess the rando non technical users we support all day have more tech skills than you 🤷‍♂️

              2025 and still having these arguments about the cons of Linux desktop. The only real reason it’s as good as it is, is valve pumping money into it.

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                That’s a big assumption about who I am, what I do, and my abilities, isn’t it?

                You don’t know everything, and your experiences aren’t universal, you know

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        I have multiple lying around, because I’m also very forgetful. And also not only for emergencies, but mainly for maintenance, eg. editing/moving partitions.