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I started nearly 30 years ago and cannot count the dead systems I have left in my wake. Just on the 2000-ish thing where Dell first offered Linux but it was inherently unstable after booting the pre-written disk image if you touched it, alone... So many kernel sanity failures...
They died for a reason, for yor growth
True, sacrifices on the altar of the God Sysadmin, and their divine mount Er'orreport