Quoting Miroslav Rovis (miro.rovis@???):

> But if they make good backups and are able to restore their system, why not try
> it on the real system?

Of course! My point was merely that initial experimentation on a VM is
more attractive because you are not risking a real system and can
recover from mishap very easily. Speaking for myself, I might have
waited a long time before experimenting with inits if I'd been able to
do so only by risking screwing up an entire real native-OS Linux system.