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> To someone in the know, they can be sure that any state in the FSM they go to was intended to be visited in that manner, and they can surely get back to the s
by cabalamat 17y ago
> To someone in the know, they can be sure that any state in the FSM they go to was intended to be visited in that manner, and they can surely get back to the state they came from by simply exploring.
Sadly this is not always the case; I once broke the xfce version of Ubuntu within 10 minutes of installing it by playing around with the configuration options.
- ryanpetrich 17y agoBut you could still get back to the original state by reinstalling it.
- randallsquared 17y agoMost people never reinstall their OS at all, so this is analogous to saying that you shouldn't be worried about what can go wrong with doing your own wiring (to use someone else's example) because, after all, you could just rebuild the house.
- cabalamat 17y agoI expect going into Gnome or KDE and resetting the settings for xfce would have also worked. Though frankly I didn't bother -- if an experienced Unix user can break it in 10 minutes without trying, it clearly isn't stable enough to use.