yeah but with Linux if that were the case it’s an easy fix. it’s not locked behind something like bitlocker. I mean i’m on an Arch distro which…yeah…I break all the time including the kernal. the fix is simple. before I get too deep into something I always have my snapshots on an external drive that is updated at boot, twice a week, and 3 times a month. If I fuck it up I may, at most, loose a couple days of changes. and with Borg all my data is automatically backed up constantly so it’s not an issue.
worse comes to worse if all that fails I can easily reinstall with the iso’s I have (or use it as an excuse to try out a different distro). And with distros today it takes all of 5min to reinstall the OS.