I always like selecting new tools.  But as Lindy has shown, sometimes
you find a bad one.

There's other tools that let you gracefully recover, with a bit of
planning and habit changing.

Try virtualisation.  I keep one system that is rarely changed, and
several virtual systems for experiments.  These can be easily reset
back to how they were before any accident of excessive trust.

I won't recommend any particular virtualisation software, because I've
used so few of them, and your needs will vary.  But you can find a
reasonable list of them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines

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