PC: If you break everything, at least you can boot from a CD or maybe a USB stick and try to recover your files (you should have backups anyway, though) and/or install a new system
Also you can partition your hard drive however you want (unless you're on an ancient system where the BIOS can't boot too big drives, in which case you need a smaller boot partition)
Raspberry Pi: If you break everything, you can swap in a different SD card with a working system
Average Android "smartphone": There are like 50 partitions on the internal storage and if you mess them up, your phone might be bricked
And also there's no way to boot off a CD or a USB or an SD card or any other external media
Unless I'm just incompetent and there is a way to do that on the average Android "smartphone"? In which case, please tell me
@vaporeon_ years ago my old phone borked itself pawsibly because of water damage and i asked around whether somehow getting the data off the storage (which is purr file encrypted, forcibly) might be pawsible. nobody i knew had any (concrete) idea how you would do that
i had not backed up that phone at all whatsoever
