A better flabour?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:46:57 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 16:29, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > 03 September 2018  at 14:05, Colin Law wrote:
> > Re: A better flabour? (at least in part)
> >
> > >On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 13:56, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> > ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi All
> > >>
> > >> Truly are there some people who should not use Ubuntu?
> > >>
> > >> I have a friend who seems able to kill or at least make unusable ever effort I
> > >> make to give him a Ubuntu system
> > >
> > >What is he doing that destroys them?
> >
> > I don't know, wish I did, the latest "Could" be something to do with a "Known"
> > display bug, that has so far not been addressed?
> 
> I have never heard of a display bug that could destroy the system. In
> fact I think it is almost impossible to destroy an Ubuntu system (from
> inside) if you have not got sudo privileges.

The Power switch can "trash" the system -- cutting the power *can* cause disk
problems, but these can *usually* be fixed with a manual fsck.

It also depends on what *exactly* is meant by "destroy the system".  Getting 
to the point of being stuck in Busybox when booting can be easy -- as 
mentioned above an ill-timed power cycling can "damage" the filesystem to the 
point of requiring a manual fsck.  A novice user might think the system has 
been destroyed (doesn't boot and only spits out "gibberish": "/dev/sda1 has 
file system errors, please run fsck manually to fix."

> 
> II have a fairly elderly person I support who is very enthusiastic and
> is always 'fiddling' with things.  He regularly looses things off
> toolbars and so on that I have to go in and sort, but he has never
> done any significant damage to the system.  That is over a period of
> about 5 years.
> 
> Colin
> 
> >
> > >If he has a Windows system does he destroy that?
> >
> > Oddly, not so much, which in itself is odd as he is an "Apple Man"
> >
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