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by drewzero1 832 days ago
Easier to mess with or reinstall OS remotely if you're not sitting in front of it, I'd imagine. Also can be easier to back up the whole system or take a snapshot of the system state, or nuke it and start over if you really screw it up.

I've dabbled with VMs for test environments but generally just install on bare metal.