A day in the life of a noob distro-hopper:
-Install a shiny, fascinating new distro because I saw it reviewed on DistroTube.
-Run as “root” because user accounts are for cowards.
-Immediately start customizing the desktop, wallpaper, window manager config, fonts, themes, icons, and colors.
-Install lots of obscure PPAs to gain access to software nobody ever heard of.
-Install conky and build the most glorious, full-color, half-screen display with global clocks & weather reports, full system monitor, and NYSE scrolling stock-ticker banner.
-Install lots of extra DEs because who’s happy with just one? Cinnamon, xfce, budgie, deepin, GNOME…they all deserve a place on my login window.
-Install compiz and fiddle with every setting…because I really need “wobbly windows” and that 3-D rotating cube thing.
-Build orphaned RealTek drivers from GitHub to support my $2 ebay WiFi dongle even though I know it’s a waste of time. Get mad when it doesn’t work.
-Import 20 new theme packs and play with them until my desktop resembles an acid trip in a tattoo parlor.
-Copy & paste bash scripts from archived internet chat forums–even though I don’t know what they mean–to try to fix all the things I’ve broken.
-Curse at the incomprehensible error messages that pop up like weeds when I try to update/upgrade.
-Flame the crappy distro on DistroWatch because it is so slow, buggy, and unstable.
-Join the forum so I can air my grievances directly to the incompetent devs. Get offended when they are rude to me.
-Wallow in frustration until finally xorg freezes solid rendering my mouse & keyboard inert.
-Wipe it out and do a clean install.
-Read the Wiki.
You could argue about the order of some of them - but they sound awfully familiar!
great one
