>>70736Again, if I know the few pcs/laptops I own, I can just have everything I need set aside on USBs EASILY and I understand them well enough to know I'm fine whatever happens.
I can just click next next done… yeah I could mirror my entire boot drive, and software etc, but eventually something breaks and it's very likely to "just work" even on other PCs.
Software is another point.
I can just have the installers ready, all dependencies baked into them with the redistributables, no need to hunt down anything later on, no need to update for any reason, no need to emulate.
>Why would windows be more suited for the job than linux?Simplicity, by default compatibility and by-design software distribution differences.
>>70737No clue why you even bother with this hyperhostile response while failing to understand what I asked.
Even on the most "just works" distros your point might only ever be valid if you have an offline backup of the repo and that will only help you with stuff that is already packaged at the point in time for your specific system when you decided to make a backup.
No compatibility with future software releases because whoops my dependencies are fucked, whoops something is broken/incompatible I need to hunt down a fix which, again, needs an internet connection.
You really think when you copy paste some command into your console or install something with a package manager and the screen flashes with a ton of text for you in the process it just magically pulls all of that out of the wall socket?
Again, I'll give you two USB drives.
Your job is to set up 3 different computers (offline), one has an AMD cpu/igpu with an NVIDIA gpu, the other has no gpu, the third has an AMD gpu.
All this while they have to be compatible with running a set of software, half of which might require some form of emulation.
Even ignoring the specifics of needing emulation, let us assume that all software you will run is native to linux in some form. Can you reproduce your setup flawlessly with the given resources?
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