Linux vs. Windows (a bit lewd and offensive)

I recently had the task of installing ubuntu on a machine with an nvidia video card, where the liveUSB would load the required proprietary drivers ok but wouldn't actually install said drivers. Oh yeah, same business with the network drivers, so even if I could work with the degraded resolution, I couldn't install the needed drivers to get things working. So here's me booting into the liveUSB to chroot into the hd install to apt-get install the drivers.

Since when locking yourself out of your own computer is considered “hacker”? Hasn’t she just logged in as root at the wrong place and overwritten her user profile files? Happened to me a few times, but I’m far from calling myself a hacker of any sort.

"After hours of searching for solutions ...."

Linux reinstalls so quickly, it's hardly worth wasting the time. With a proper daily backup, you can have the system completely reinstalled over the Internet from a disastrous crash AND replace all your stuff from a backup in under 90-120 minutes.

He installed two versions of Linux on a brand new Windows machine but couldn't get the first version to work. He then found a sort of ghost Linux operating system that he hadn't installed and didn't know about. Was the ghost an invisible/spy/parasite/passenger operating system that got installed twice at the same location, messing up the operation of the visible/user/host/carrier operating system?