most wierdest things you have seen someone do on linux

[EnGorDiaz]

im not going to mention names but the most weirdest thing i have seen someone do

is install Norton anti virus on Linux i mean come on!

so what is the weirdest thing you have installed or someone else has installed on linux

[MaxIBoy]

Someone who learned BASH on the job was under the impression that in full text mode, he had to do something like this:

cd /dev
ls -a > ~/devices
emacs ~/devices

when in fact he could've done this:

cd /dev
ls -a | less

This same person also followed this set of steps to get back to the desktop after spending some time in a virtual terminal:

• rm /tmp/X0-lock
• startx
• LXDE starts up for some reason.
• ctrl-alt-backspace
• instead of going to the login screen, computer drops back to whatever graphical session he started with.

when in fact he could've done this:

• ctrl-alt-F7

Sadly, this person was me.

[ajcham]

when in fact he could've done this:

• ctrl-alt-F7

Sadly, this person was me.

Even worse, you only need to alt-f7!

[bp1509]

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[koffeinöverdos]

I'm still a linux noob (about half a year now) so I can't get too technical. But I suppose its when I see people deck out their desktop theme to look exactly like Windows XP or Vista, or even worse, I saw an ubuntu installable package that pretty much completey decked out ubuntu to look like windows XP.