Confessions:

[bigvoo]

I have 2: number 1. I have never installed anything from terminal, I always used synaptics::: 2. ( really embarraced about it ) wracked my brain for 5 days trying to get the wireless to ( see ) networks available...found out yesterday, that I was right clicking network manager, instead of left clicking network manager..it was working all along....whew, I feel better after these confessions...give it a try

[Dapper Dan]

I feel the need to unburden myself as well.

1. Last year I did a CRUX 2.5 install and was rather hasty when configuring /etc/fstab. I didn't configure it correctly to have /home mounted on a separate partition I created for it so it got made in the root directory instead. It was several weeks before I realised and corrected my error...

2. I STILL use XMMS and make no apologies for it!

There. I feel better too.

[GNU-Fan]

I shamefacedly confess:

i) Last week the filesystem started to find corruption errors. I know from experience more trouble is to be expected and instead of fixing it now when I have time, I am lazy and merely shoved some files to an USB stick. Most probably a major system crash will hit me hard when I really cannot afford it in the next weeks.

ii) I still use Firefox2 just because my favorite theme hasn't been ported yet.

iii) I still have Flash installed and prefer it over Gnash, making it the last remaining proprietary piece of software on my computer I am aware of.

[Kieren]

I have a disk containing Linux software that I downloaded before I realised there was a package manager.

[techieMoe]

• The Ubuntu partition on my laptop is sadly underused as of late. I basically log on now and then to keep the software up to date, but don't do any work on it.
• I signed up for a Microsoft seminar in November because they bribed me with a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
• I'm not wearing any pants right now.

Two of those are true, and one is not. Happy guessing.

[reed9]

number 1. I have never installed anything from terminal, I always used synaptics::: 2. ( really embarraced about it )

You should try it. I used to always use graphical package managers, and now I can't stand them. I don't even use them to search for packages, just use the Arch package website.

I still use Firefox2 just because my favorite theme hasn't been ported yet.

Holy cow!

Hmm, what to confess...
I use a lot of proprietary stuff - flash, nvidia drivers, broadcom STA driver, media codecs.

I fell for sudo rm -rf / once when I was new.

99% of the time I don't actually check the PKGBUILD script when installing from the Arch User Repo, even though it's a huge security risk.

[D-cat]

I've packratted DOS and Windows software from as far back as 1991.

I too also prefer xmms to any other audio player in Linux. (That's NOT xmms2)
Small and efficient, like the original WinAMP.

[Dapper Dan]

99% of the time I don't actually check the PKGBUILD script when installing from the Arch User Repo, even though it's a huge security risk.

Knowing I'm taking the same sort of risks, I confess that I more often than naught ignore footprint and md5sum mismatches when installing packages with prt-get.

[hazel]

I never seem to get around to backing up my data.

btw I like synaptic. I use apt-get for one-off installs because it's simpler but I prefer synaptic for the monthly update.

[Dapper Dan]

I too also prefer xmms to any other audio player in Linux. (That's NOT xmms2) Small and efficient, like the original WinAMP.

Amen brother! AMEN!!