Nah, rollbacks are a feature to save you when it has broken. A good one indeed, but it’s more akin to a fire extinguisher. It doesn’t prevent the problem, but it does prevent everything from being a pile of ashes.

Well, OP only specified that they’d been using Linux for about a decade; no mention of their laptops not being from the early 90s. :)

Great operating system, that. Shame it lacks a text editor.

Here’s one for less than 4 USD. I imagine 150 mm in length would be sufficient.