Setting up an OS to support virtual environments along with setting virtual environment to run/experiment with XV6 or Minux will save time/pain when accidently

Setting up an OS to support virtual environments along with setting virtual environment to run/experiment with XV6 or Minux will save time/pain when accidently do things that hose the OS aka 'rm -rf /*'. .[0] Take a look at live distro (run just in ram).[1] If totally hose the system while messing around, just reboot (assuming no writeable media on box when running in ram only) [0] : https://www.altaro.com/vmware/open-source-projects/ https://www.altaro.com/vmware/open-source-projects/ [1] : https://www.makeuseof.com/best-live-usb-linux-distros/ https://www.makeuseof.com/best-live-usb-linux-distros/