> The trick is to 'rehearse' a clean install of an OS repeatedly so that it doesn't feel so harrowing when it does fail (and I've had plenty of actual crashes o

> The trick is to 'rehearse' a clean install of an OS repeatedly so that it doesn't feel so harrowing when it does fail (and I've had plenty of actual crashes over the course of my daily computing adventures, covering different OSes like Linux, macOS, Windows). A tool like Ansible, Nix, or Docker Compose is useful in such situations.