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EnGorDiaz
December 17th, 2008, 10:26 AM
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
December 17th, 2008, 04:51 PM
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
December 17th, 2008, 06:24 PM
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
December 17th, 2008, 07:03 PM
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koffeinöverdos
December 17th, 2008, 07:15 PM
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.