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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
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.