I’m not so sure your analogy works. Unless you are testing to see how fast you can bring a new test dummy into production. Or you are testing to see how fast you can install new airbags with blemishes and all.

It gave me a reason to finally run the command that <insert something amazing here> by recursively deleting everything.

Linux is amazing in it’s ability to keep working even when you accidentally all the things.

Annoyingly so. I once made a backup. Then to confirm it would restore the system, I deleted everything on root path. as in /

It did as told.

OK let’s reboot and verify system.

Sudo reboot

Command not found

sudo shutdown

Command not found

But it sat there with a blinking cursor on the terminal

Too bad I hate FlatPak

I may be missing something, but have you tried virtual machine manager?

virtual machine manager

Ew Flatpak. Feels like an OS inside an OS. And it also feels bloated. Like almost one GB just to install an emulator.