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If you're experiencing volume corruption, or can no longer guarantee the integrity of your system, at that point does it matter that it's open source? At what point do you cut the investigation, reinstall and get on with your day?

Proprietary OSes are less flexible but not to the extreme you're describing. In both instances there are faults you can recover from, and faults where you can't.

Edit, to rephrase my question as not rhetorical: I'm genuinely interested in knowing if troubleshooting this type of fault is a common occurrence to people outside of OS/kernel programming, as I lack experience with it.