A better flabour?

[Rashkae]

On 2018-09-03 08:55 AM, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Truly are there some people who should not use Ubuntu?
> 

There's a reason Ipads and now Chromebooks are so popular.

> I have a friend who seems able to kill or at least make unusable ever effort I 
> make to give him a Ubuntu system
> 
> I've done Live USB's (with & without persistance) run on both Mac & Wondowz 
> hardware
> 

This would be the perfect use case for installing with BTRFS, then
install/configure snapper package (for automatic hourly snapshots).

If the system gets twisted into a knot, just restore to a snapshot from
before the bad thing happened.

BTRFS is under heavy development, and has it's own share of quirks,
occasional bugs, and despite all the built in redundancy, has absolutely
0 tolerance for corruption.. (ie, if the hardware somehow corrupts the
data, the repair utilities most often will be of little help).. so if
you're not familiar with it, I wouldn't trust data to it unless you're
fully prepared to rely on backups.

That being said, Snapshot feature is incredibly powerful and almost
perfect for exactly this situation.  Would be power user can tinker with
packages and config files to their hearts content, and still be able to
undo almost any mistakes.