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I have the same experience with Arch. If anything has ever been borked a quick search and at worst Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a different TTY and running some commands has fixed whatever it was. I've never needed recovery or a separate boot device. Meanwhile, I've had a few fiascos with Ubuntu dist upgrades.

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>at worst Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a different TTY and running some commands has fixed whatever it was.

For the average user of a hand held gaming console you may as well tell them to pop the back off and replace the chips on the PCB.

At most you could tell them to hold a button combo to factory reset but ideally you would want some way to roll back the whole OS state to the previous working version. Silverblue allows this to happen in a fairly elegant way by making the OS an image file and mounting it as read only so a roll back is simply mounting an older image.

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