@amerpie This is totally me, much to the exasperation of my wife.

I do not like walking away from an uncooperative computer, especially my own.

I totally get this. And the frantic flow state I end up in trying to recover from a problem... Hours vanish. It's an extremely unproductive use of time. And being a Linux user gives me the freedom to fuck things up at a rate Windows users can only dream. These days I make sure I only make changes to my system when I can genuinely afford the time to fix my mistakes.

Thankfully I have not had a backup fail me yet.