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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes?
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:48:38 +0000
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On 05/01/15 22:25, Marc Haber wrote:

> But, if it's your job, you should have spare hardware or VMs available
> so that you do not need to risk your primary working tool.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>

That's valid - but there's nothing like testing a distro by real world 
daily use for a while :)

Sure - using a VM is a good way to narrow the choices down by excluding 
the non starters - but for one it does not expose the OS to testing on 
real hardware (like pulling USB devices in and out, graphics, 
suspend/resume and many other real world tests.