I've just been watching Survivors on iPlayer whilst rebuilding an unfortunate old PC that died of deathstaritis. It made me think about surviving the worst case scenarios, what tech would I want to survive a zombie apocalypse? What software should I keep several copies of? Is gentoo the answer? And then I found a worst of all worst case scenarios: What software is essential to survive the windows experience?

I'm trying to gen a shadowrun character. And no, I'm not playing a hacker, technomancer or anything that relates to my supposedly real existence. It's far more fun to play something completely different. I'm going with a face+driver.