That's about where i'm at ... Just for fun, I decided to post this little thread to expound on my lack of presence as of late and perhaps find a solution.

As the title explains, i've hit a severe Linux plateau. I'm so freakin' burnt out these days. I can't seem to get myself to even wanna reboot the computer into slack i'm so tired. Perhaps i'm admitting a cardinal geek sin but hey, hasn't anyone ever just totally burnt out on something you found yourself away from it for a while? Not that I like Windows, but in this house, I can't leave linux as the default or the folks here would fry me alive. So I don't have the energy to keep dualbooting and doing the inbetweener thing. Anyhowyoudoitwither, thought i'd see what kind of replies this got and how many flames i can be a part of as far as being a lazy-arse! Goodbye blue sky ...

Sad........ really sad...
I just hope you don't get flamed in any post
May be, I am going to feel the same way you do. But for me, there is still a lot to be learnt, so I am still walking up on the mountain. I am sure, that at one point I have to get back down.
I hope that the true Linux spirit comes in here: If you want to use it, great, but you're not forced to. So, nobody should try to pull you back to Linux
So, good look to you!

Thanks...I've just been really tired lately. No energy to go into chat or post. I just look at the forums and say, crap. I think my patience is wearing thin to the redundancy of questions, and I don't want to post if i'm in a bad mood or feel too upitty as to where I may be an arsehole. My mental state comes and goes in waves anyhow due to my oh so fantastic genetic predisposition. Oh well...I'm not going anywhere, just on sabatical.

Slowly put down the winders cd............back away with your hands up in the air.
Somebody get him some coffee and something to compile.

just kiddin'...........hope you get to feeling better soon.
Maybe you should look at it like multi level marketing.
You get to the next level when you have coded X number of linux guru's, that have X number of linux experts under them, and so on, and so on.

Wait a minute.............that could be the way to desktop dominance.
LINUX mlm style!!!

Actually taz, I have felt burnt out with my linux setup for the past few weeks. I just did not do much of anything productive, so I just payed some games on Winsucks. I did of course have some pointless web browsing, but I just did not want to do anymore configuring or alterations.

But now I am back! Big time!

Com'n mate, what is it, a depression? Take it off, will ya? Get a pretty mac for a change, just don't give up to easiness of use it's not gonna cure stress anyway. What, do you need a slap? Here it is :-) . Stay away from ludes.
Feel better?

You guys admitted to loving windbloze, ha ha ha ha

Nah, I don't think many ppl like windoze, but I know exactly how taz is feeling. I used to feel like that - but luckily now I have deleted windoze for ever, just have Linux on this computer right here.

It felt a bit like Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October when he sends the letter to someone high up in the Soviet Navy, annoucing his defection. Forcing myself into a corner has led me to find Linux solutions to windoze problems. The only thing that I miss is the games, and I still enjoy using my bro's comp to whip his ass at Champ Manager or anything else he plays against me for that matter.

So don't worry about it!

Even when you love doing something greatly as I do in using Linux as my default OS, I still get tired of having both. I'd definately use Linux at all times, but as that's not possible, oh well huh? I'm catching a cold and just rundown all together. Thanks for the empathy though all! Much appreciated.

Me too. Now I realize that I just can't work with Windows. I don't know what to do and how to do and... And ctrl+alt+f1 does not work.

We need demons, America needs demons, Linux needs demons (no not background processes, geekboy!) and when everyone agrees that the demons are bad, the good can lose their raison d'etre.

Linux would not have existed without bad uncle bill from Redmond, along with the Diva Torvalds and the Loon Stallman.

Do we need new challenges?

A big challenge:

task-generic distributed applets using idle processor cycles. If your programming is up to it you have a good business proposition - sell other people's idle cycles.

I dunno.

Bert

I've never become really bored with doing stuff in Linux, but then I've only been using it for a couple of years now. I did get completely burned out on a regular basis when doing VB programming at school. I would sit there and think 'Is this bloody thing actually going to go anywhere, or am I forever going to fiddle with it and not do anything?'. In the end I would give up for a few weeks and do something else, like write music. After a break I would find that I could sit down and just do stuff that I hadn't even thought about...and miraculously the program would take shape, almost of its own accord.

I would prescribe some serious relaxation, doing something else that you love, not Linux stuff. Go fishing, for example. You may be burned out at the moment, but you will return to your former glory, and you will feel better for having had a break from the routine.

Your a strange guy. Or gal.

Thats a nice looking monitor you've got though.

Well, for the last week, i've been so tired that I could barely get myself to get my email much less dual-boot back and forth. Yesterday I had my troubles partially answered in the fact that my nose suddenly would not stop drooling, my ear hurt for some reason, my head aches oddly enough and my throat is thrashed something awfull. Well, after taking a long hard look at things, I decided it's THE spring cold I always get every year, likewise a big puppy in winter. I make up for things it seems all at once. This explains much of my lethargy and apathetic moods. I am starting to get into my "wahhh I want soup" mode, but now it seems coming back (so to speak) to the forums more regularly is a nice focusing point rather than my cold. In the end, it all works out, just make sure you don't push.

Taz,

I hear ya. I think you may have noticed that our post count hasn't really drifted that far apart on your slow down. Aside from the wireless questions and the giggle fests down here in general, I'm losing a bit of steam as well. I think it might have a bit to do with a ton of one shot answers lately, none of the follow-up on reply 4 times that I got used to.

Okay, who am I fooling, I just can't be bothered to answer X-config questions over and over and over. I'm getting jaded.

And as for my house... everything works right now. I got bored and figured out Samba enough to satisfy myself the other day... Okay I need to get the SS10 running RH6.2 to properly run sshd, but really, if I can't troubleshoot the problem online (DSL next week, maybe the week after), I get bored. I've watched all the movies, unpacked all of the stuff, done the laundry, read the books for the most part. I've prepped the router, debugged the music server, juggled the NICs, laid the cable, vaccuumed the rug, LFS'ed twice, made the coffee... malaise.

The rain will let up though, it always does, even in Seattle. You could always bat guano bomb a Starbucks if your bored... shouldn't be hard to find one.

Luck,

Finegan

P.S.

finegan
Moderator

Aw Heck, now how did that happen? I modded, whoops... guess I'll have something to do for a while.