There's no gambling envolved. You're either smart enough to just boot from a live image ("smart" extending to "have a bootable image at hand or have a way to create one") in which case it's not gambling - or you've got not only a band hand but also no clue how to play it. In which case you shouldn't have gambled in the first time.

That one time I did not know what Wayland was...

It’s bloat if you don’t stop running