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I think that people really should make little "Recovery bubbles" akin to the old Pheonix Hyperspace. A bulletproof OS that, if your main OS(es) gets hosed, you can go into there and idk, download an ISO to burn easy.
Question is, how could one make something bulletproof without dedicated hardware? I guess just not being an idiot with partitions, but the whole idea of a little recovery environment you can still just use as a backup is cool.
on macs the ability to do "internet recovery" is built into the firmware, so you hold down cmd-r while booting and if you hosed the builtin recovery partition, it downloads a minimal OS image with a browser, terminal, and macOS installer off the internet and boots it. you still need to have an internet connection for that to work, but it is pretty handy if you've totally ruined your local storage for whatever reason
while it sounds like a good idea, and apple has already made a great implementation (see jckarter's comment above), it's honestly way easier to just have a Ventoy usb laying around, or two.
i personally have a macOS usb that can both boot into a hackintosh system and a macOS recovery environment, as well as a separate 32GB usb with different operating systems on it. such as w10, w11, gparted, voidlinux-i386, voidlinux-x86_64, archlinux, maybe something else.
