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> I love Linux, but it's still like a glass house. One simple terminal command out of curiosity will basically force you to reinstall the OS.

Counterpoints:

* Fedora Silverblue provides an immutable base OS with atomic updates/rollbacks. Makes it hard to mess up your system to the point where it doesn't work.

* NixOS and Guix provide delarative system configuration with atomic updates/rollbacks.

* Even on a 'traditional' distribution, you can use something like btrfs or ZFS snapshots and rollback your changes if you have a tendency to destroy systems ;).

That said, Linux is not for everyone and it is completely fine to use macOS or Windows (as I write, I am using macOS on a MacBook).




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