You know you've been using openSUSE for too long when...

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  1. You always hang around after shutting down to check the computer actually powers off.
  2. You don’t post a forum response until at least after Henk asks the OP which openSUSE version.
  3. You’re still calling GRUB2’s recovery boot option `fail-safe’.
  4. You successfully suppress the urge to start a forum post with `well actually…’
  5. You remember the `good old days’ of kernel 2.6.x that seemed to last forever.
  6. You think that bile-colored green might actually look good on most of a desktop wallpaper.
  7. You know the first openSUSE was not version 1.0 but version 10.2.
  8. You’ve forgotten or never knew that tumbleweed is actually a type of plant.
  9. You perform a full re-install of openSUSE just to help out a forum poster or prove a point.
  10. You don’t post a forum response until at least after Henk’s request for code tags.
  11. You’ve made over a dozen backups of your /etc/fstab.
  12. You’re still devoting an entire partition to /var/.
  13. You remember the days of Blowfish password encryption.
  14. You wish you still had box-set for your latest openSUSE installation media.
  15. You keep a copy of $HOME/.*rc on your USB pen which you carry with you everywhere.
  16. You’d prefer to call the current YaST by the name `YaST3’.
  17. You think `man bash’ is actually a useful forum response.
  18. You use KDE and GNOME on alternate days just to keep a balanced experience.
  19. You don’t post a forum response until Henk has moved the post from one subforum to another.
  20. You cannot suppress the urge to finish numbered lists on an arbitrarily round number.
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Essential, though breaking #20:
21. You relate eras in your life to: S.u.S.E, SuSE, SUSE, openSUSE

@flymail: Thinking about reporting the post and ask for move to Soapbox.

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On 2014-03-21, Knurpht <Knurpht@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> @flymail: Thinking about reporting the post and ask for move to Soapbox.

  1. You discriminate whether a whimsical post should go to Soapbox' or General Chit-Chat’

Haha! Nice one :smiley:

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On 2014-03-21 11:34, flymail wrote:

> 1. You always hang around after shutting down to check the computer actually powers off.
> 2. You don’t post a forum response until at least after Henk asks the OP which openSUSE version.
> 3. You’re still calling GRUB2’s recovery boot option `fail-safe’.

  1. You successfully suppress the urge to start a forum post with well actually...' &gt; 5. You remember the good old days’ of kernel 2.6.x that seemed to last forever.
  2. You think that bile-colored green might actually look good on most of a desktop wallpaper.
  3. You know the first openSUSE was not version 1.0 but version 10.2.
  4. You’ve forgotten or never knew that tumbleweed is actually a type of plant.
  5. You perform a full re-install of openSUSE just to help out a forum poster or prove a point.
  6. You don’t post a forum response until at least after Henk’s request for code tags.
  7. You’ve made over a dozen backups of your /etc/fstab.
  8. You’re still devoting an entire partition to /var/.
  9. You remember the days of Blowfish password encryption.
  10. You wish you still had box-set for your latest openSUSE installation media.
  11. You keep a copy of $HOME/.*rc on your USB pen which you carry with you everywhere.
  12. You’d prefer to call the current YaST by the name YaST3'. &gt; 17. You think man bash’ is actually a useful forum response.
    > 18. You use KDE and GNOME on alternate days just to keep a balanced experience.
    > 19. You don’t post a forum response until Henk has moved the post from one subforum to another.
    > 20. You cannot suppress the urge to finish numbered lists on an arbitrarily round number.

ROTFL! X’-)

I will not actually tell which ones I like more :wink:

Some more:

  1. You still think LILO was a good thing.
  2. You have to stop your fingers from typing SuSE.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

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rotfl!

Brilliant!

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STOP spying on me!

and my additions:

2*. You know that yast2 -IS- openSUSE, and pledge to slay it’s enemies.
2*. You are adamant that the creators of OBS should get the Nobel Prize.

P.S. Well done :slight_smile:

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You only do that with old unreliable hardware.

The good old days were when it was kernel 1.something.

Not for a forum poster. But I have done it to get information for a bug report. Hmm, that reminds me …

I’m inclined to think that would give you an unbalanced experience.

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:06:01 +0000, Dexter1979 wrote:

> rotfl!
>
> Brilliant!

n. You smile any time you see either hendersj or Dexter1979 tell someone
on the openSUSE Facebook post that the forums or IRC are where they
should ask for help, not on Facebook. :wink:

Jim

–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

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#? You change between completely ignoring “Opensuse”, “OpenSuSE” and mentioning “openSUSE” at least 5 times in the first two sentences of your reply

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flymail wrote:

> 8. You’ve forgotten or never knew that tumbleweed is actually a type of
> plant.
>

These are all good but #8 hit a nerve here - after a couple of weeks of
strong winds (eastern Colorado) those “real” tumbleweeds were piled roof-
high in places and actually closing some roads.

The unpleasant connotations of the name name will keep me off that version
for a while!

–
Will Honea

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In keeping with the first version of SuSE which was 4.2.

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That is just a sign you are on Facebook to much :wink:

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:26:01 +0000, Dexter1979 wrote:

> hendersj;2631917 Wrote:
>> You smile any time you see either hendersj or Dexter1979 tell someone
>> on the openSUSE Facebook post that the forums or IRC are where they
>> should ask for help, not on Facebook.
> That is just a sign you are on Facebook to much :wink:

That may well be true. :wink:

Jim

–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

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… I second that.

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What’s “Facebook”?:question:

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… oh, and

You know you’ve been using openSUSE for too long when…

… you apply Bold and the colour Green each time you mention openSUSE in a post.:embarrassed:

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I’m guilty. 1 and 8. Othetwise a very good post!
/Regards

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or…

You don’t call something that’s not evergreen deciduous', but EOL’ instead.

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Apparently a senior UK political figure recently avoided using the word “death”, by referring to it as the “end of retirement”. I just love political correctness, but only as a source of humour and object of ridicule. :smiley:

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George Carlin had a whole sketch about soft language. Look it up on Youtube (bad language involved so I won’t link it here :wink: )

“Makes me want to vomit… well, maybe not vomit. Makes me engage in a involuntary personal protein spill!!”