[mhxion]

> How often does this happen? I've worked with complete Linux noobies who were "forced" to use Linux in a VM daily and I've never seen this happen.

Depends on the noob, and just because you never met a situation like that doesn't mean nobody else experiences too (disclosure: it happens all the time)

I was somewhat a noob, I tried to edit Ubuntu's Yaru theme and I messed up and deleted the corrupted system files. There was nothing to worry since I already made backups of the original files, the distress came when I realized I accidentally deleted my good backup files (was bad regex). I wasn't really worried at that moment cause I hoped there would be some repository out there, I could just fetch my files. There was none, none of the latest Ubuntu version or any close old version. Turns out distribution packages are so big (sensibly) it's not that simple to deploy a remote master repository. That was my "wtf open source" moment. I still somehow managed to fix it without any stackoverflow or AskUbuntu. Anyway that's just one case top off my head.