I got started in Linux about 15 years ago. I'm not skilled nor a techie but knowledgeable enough to make things work. After running endless cracked windows machines I switched to Linux and started distro hopping. But I didn't have enough money at the time to afford a lot of hard drive space.

I remember going from one distro to another while trying to transfer a couple of GBs worth of work on the same drive. Two GB of data was a big deal to me at the time. At one point late one night after about the tenth distro attempt, I wiped an entire drive worth of my unbacked up work. Worst moment of digital loss I ever had.

I've kept double triple and quadruple backups since then .... and I still worry about losing data.