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The Handbook is comprehensive, well-tested, and updated by people who care. The ricer skims the first heading, decides they get the gist, and arrives at step 14 with a system that boots into a flashing cursor and a profound sense of betrayal.

"the wiki said to back up my config first lol who has time for that"

Then comes the forum post. It will not include the error message. It will not include the hardware. It will not include what was attempted. It will say only: "doesnt work, pls help, urgent."

And somehow — somehow — three saints will show up to help. That, too, is Linux.