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Where supporting Ubuntu falls over is when I try and support "power users". There's like an uncanny valley of competence, between completely naive users who ju
by CoolGuySteve 6y ago
Where supporting Ubuntu falls over is when I try and support "power users".
There's like an uncanny valley of competence, between completely naive users who just let things run and experienced users who know where the red lines are when using sudo.
So far I've seen the following breakages:
- completely fuck up apt somehow such that it refuses to update or fix itself
- overwrite packages with their own compiled versions
- mess with the system installed scripting environments
- try and install a new kernel or graphics drivers (usually not even to get something working but because it's "new") and consequently break the boot somehow.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoyes, true. But what alternative do we have? If such a power user breaks windows registry in a _really_ bad way, the fastest solution, by far, is to just reinstall anything. And, again, if you are smart about having your /home folders on a separate partition, reinstalling Ubuntu is way faster. So even in this worst case scenario Windows loses.
- wazzaps 6y agoPop!_OS has a recovery partition with a "reset installation", which keeps the home directory (I believe) but reinstalls everything else
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- zamadatix 6y agoThe registry has multiple automatic backups to the point you can delete the entire thing and not need to reinstall or use external backups, system recovery boot mode will handle it.