Linux comic

heleos · 2008-07-31 22:15:15

My friend left me a message last night saying that this was me. I'm not that bad, but I thought it was funny anyway

from xkcd (http://www.xkcd.com)

Gullible Jones · 2008-07-31 23:42:51

It is absolutely true... I know from hard experience. Pure source-based distros suck your life away.

(Mind, I've thought of trying Gentoo with an i686 binary repo recently; that might make it usable, if very un-KISS.)

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Square · 2008-08-01 01:48:03

Love XKCD.

(Looks at my signature)

(Comment: Proper User Policy apprently means Simon says...)

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sand_man · 2008-08-01 02:13:03

lol Square's post is gold.

jb · 2008-08-01 02:56:53

I've seen the events shown in the OP occur. It's heartbreaking really, watching someone spiral down that path. :tear:

sand_man · 2008-08-01 04:37:05

Gentoo is a pain in the rear end.
Long live Arch

Acecero · 2008-08-01 05:30:16

I love that one! It reminds of the gentoo days.

My favorite one so far:

peets · 2008-08-01 14:10:23

I still answer my phone; sometimes I even call people.

B-Con · 2008-08-01 22:56:54

peets wrote:

I still answer my phone; sometimes I even call people.

Calling to tell your friends to get on IRC doesn't count.

violagirl23 · 2008-08-02 04:55:42

My friend sent me that the day it came out and I couldn't help but marvel at how much that was me last summer. Because I'd originally started out on Ubuntu but got tired of it doing everything for me, so I switched to Gentoo. Sometimes I would just stay up all night just compiling packages and tweaking with my kernel (often making my system unbootable). It was like a drug. That comic is so how my life was with Gentoo. Oh my god.

Allan · 2008-08-02 06:09:36

This is the advantage of being a dev/TU. You get to build some packages to give you a fix, but not too many that you sever contact with the outside world.

peets · 2008-08-02 13:27:12

Allan wrote:

This is the advantage of being a dev/TU. You get to build some packages to give you a fix, but not too many that you sever contact with the outside world.

... and the rest of us have abs. Hooray for Arch!

cuervo · 2008-08-02 16:07:09

Sadly, I too have spent many a lonely night "tweaking my kernel".

heleos · 2008-08-02 17:16:06

Acecero wrote:

I love that one! It reminds of the gentoo days.
My favorite one so far:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/linux_user_at_best_buy.png

Haha, I love that one. Set it as my background!

dunc · 2008-08-03 01:05:38

cuervo wrote:

Sadly, I too have spent many a lonely night "tweaking my kernel".

Yes, but enough about your personal life... how much time do you spend configuring Linux?

The funny thing about the cartoon is that, judging by the xkcd forum, people seem to take it two completely different ways. Linux users see it as a wry comment on how addictive tinkering with the OS can be, and non-users see it as a criticism of how difficult Linux (allegedly) is to use. Personally, I think it's meant as the former, since there have always been Linux in-jokes in xkcd (and the final line is obviously a play on anti-drugs advertising). But then, I'm a Linux user...

PS: The five letter word for chemicals with an active effect on the human body is censored? I've no objection to censorship of offensive language on a privately owned and run site, but isn't that taking things a bit far?

k2t0f12d · 2008-08-05 07:56:11

Cerebral · 2008-08-05 13:15:11

dunc wrote:

PS: The five letter word for chemicals with an active effect on the human body is censored? I've no objection to censorship of offensive language on a privately owned and run site, but isn't that taking things a bit far?

Actually, I think it was done a while ago when we got a lot of spam, and that was one of the words that appeared alot - think 'enhancement tablets' and such.

I suppose somebody should really review the censored list and tune it a bit.

dunc · 2008-08-05 19:14:49

Cerebral wrote:

dunc wrote:
PS: The five letter word for chemicals with an active effect on the human body is censored? I've no objection to censorship of offensive language on a privately owned and run site, but isn't that taking things a bit far?
Actually, I think it was done a while ago when we got a lot of spam, and that was one of the words that appeared alot - think 'enhancement tablets' and such.

Ah. That makes sense. I didn't think of that.

Lord Illidan · 2008-08-05 19:44:44

Same thing happened to me except there was no "friend", just my uncle challenging me to get into Linux and prove I was a real pro at computers (I was 14 years old, had done my A+ and was swaggering around a bit). Then I got a Fedora book and set out the hard way. Drove through a lot of distros, dealt with Gentoo, and now I'm going to enjoy Arch in my old age. (19).

Now, please get off my lawn!

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Zerathidune · 2008-08-11 04:11:13

I never quite had the attention span to finish installing distro like gentoo, but I was a slackware user for a long time, and would often do self compiled kernels since slack was always a bit out of date. I kinda missed doing it once in a great while, but not as often as I had to.

actually, I'm fiddling with custom kernels on arch these days, becuase I recently got a new laptop, and for some reason the stock kernel wouldn't boot at first, with the update to 2.6.26.2, it boots again, but I'm having this issue where a little while after booting, linux "loses track of" my battery, and just says it's empty all the time. from what I can tell this was originally an upstream bug, but was supposed to have been fixed in 2.6.26 (and I didn't have this problem with the custom 2.6.26.2) I'm waiting for the abs tree to be updated with the PKGBUILD for the new stock arch kernel, at which point I plan to comment out the patches, rebuild it, and see if it's an arch bug or not.

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