Hey one and all:
I am a total noob, just putting Suse 10.1 on my laptop this week. Now I have acquired Suse 10.1, Ubuntu 6.**, Fedora Core 6, Ichthux, and some others and I want to use them all. Is there help for people like me? (Currently about to install Fedora w/dual boot wndz.) Great being able to try new things.

Yes, there is. Because I also love experimenting.

I've tried almost every major distro out there, except Mandriva/Mandrake.

I can imagine worse addictions.

I started with debian, then yellowdog, then ubuntu, gentoo, ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, ubuntu, fedora...you are not alone.

I would not classify curiosity as an addiction, though.

Same thing here. It's not about linux being free. It's about accepting challenges. It's about being able to do things which other people can't do easily. It's about learning how an Operating System works.

If you really wanna get to the core, try Slackware. Then you will know what real Linux addiction is because, it really makes your life tough. But, it's fun hey.

the best arragement is like 30% computers and the rest of the 70% for the rest(you get what i mean) ...


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I guess when you really get obsessed, you'll start downloading all these obscure or discontinued oses noone even knows about. You'll have atleast a 20 different linux distros alone, setup up to boot of off one resier4 partition. And you'll like a partition for every filesystem.

Don't worry, this gets cured with increasing age. Now I look for smaller distributions since I have learned to do without many unnecessary programs. Although I still wonder what Suse 10.2 has to offer. Perhaps I'll restrain myself and go for Zenwalk 4, as a medium size distro.
What cured me was moving onto Slax. It has everything I need and it is TINY! There's enough room left for my ashtray. Now that's an addiction!

you are good in that ... ^_^

yeh , i do find ash-stray and probably coffee cups(but i called it container though) cause more problems than anything else ...


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I think I would have to claim addiction here. It's one thing to be curious and it's another thing to find more things to be curious about. I did a little bit of distro hopping and then stopped when I got to Slackware because I found it a greater challenge by using it to do things those other distros do by default. I've always enjoyed learning.

I think that's why forums like LQ also become addicting by default. I'm on this site 2 or 3 times a day at the very least. I like to read about other people's problems and help if I can. Even if the problem is solved or I can't provide any help whatsoever it's still a great learning experience just reading the steps people go through. I'll follow threads through their life just for this reason even if it's about Suse and I can't really have that experience. Sometimes I make an ass of myself with how little I know and I ask newbie questions when I really don't need to know what I'm talking about. While it's probably a waste of time it really isn't because my brain has been satisfied with its Linux craving.

So yeah... I'm addicted. While I'm at the computer I need to play at the terminal every hour or so that I'm on to feed my addiction. Even if it's a pwd or an ls. Sometimes a dmesg, ps, top, or df -h. Not to mention the daily run by kernel.org to see if a new stable kernel is out for compiling. I even create problems sometimes only to fix them in extreme boredom.

Sad...

I like all the peeps lined up to help you here and other BBS's. Just don't cross any mods, their egos are important to them.

I think it is sad that an user who has been a member from LQ.org since 2001 suddenly decided to go rogue and attack LQ.org users and mods. It's pretty much like spitting on the plate you once ate. I do, hope you get banned soon slapNUT...

Whatever slapNUT's reasons behind the latest posting frenzy, he has been dealt with.

Let's get back to whatever this thread was about