ONLY LINUX USERS WILL UNDERSTAND THIS - AND ONLY THE ONES THAT KNOW HOW A STANDARD DESKTOP DISTRO WORKS.

Have you ever had one of those nightmares where you "wake up" and it is still the nightmare. I recently had the honour of having that with a situation that was all too real. The Linux Nightmare (Disclaimer: I'm still a Linux User, but I definitely won't be using it the way I was in the dream)

Basically: The dream consists of me repeatedly trying to solve an Xorg Error, Manage file revisions, and "boot" myself. Yes, in this dream I am a human running a Linux variant on my brain. My brain.. yea. In any case is starts off with the file revisions.

In the "File Revisions" segment I wake up to greet a family member only to discover that there are two of that one person. I question each of them about the other but they do not interact (because as I discover they are two separate versions. One is a newer version and is able to confirm the same activities prior to my inquiry and add more new information. This is where I'm glad that violence is not the answer, rather than "delete" one of them I decide to "reboot".Apparently this means go back to sleep, which clears my "temp files" but left a bad echo in my long term memory.

Upon reboot everything goes haywire. Sounds and sights are garbled, this is some top grade scary shit combined with my everyday life. Eventually it stops, kicks back to terminal which involves me face down on the ground attempting to issue manual "verbal" commands to solve the problem. But when your brain runs Linux and everyone else knows nothing about Linux there is no "Google Search" for answers. So I remain on the cold cement until I realize that the horrible wrrgarbl that happened to the world is really an Xorg problem, so I try to start it again. Same problem but now I am in my bed, which must mean I rebooted again and knew better than to do anything until I saw the error through. This happens a couple more times while trying to edit my "xorg.conf", which I cannot replace with defaults because that would eliminate my personality.

Its a tough deal because everyone thinks you are sleeping. Oh, did I mention that to issue commands I have to shout things like "SUDO REBOOT NOW" and "SUDO NANO SLASH ETSY SLASH X-ORG CONF". Nobody hears you though because even your sound controllers aren't working. Eventually I give up and shutdown. Good thing I awaken to loud ass noises, the human equivalent of wake-on-LAN. And this is when I figure it out. Its a dream! Oh, but I'm not supposed to remember dreams. This is a feature addition after too many system failures like this or something. My version disabled that due to the massive brainbender in the first dream.

So I almost deleted the dream including the repair sequence when instead I chose to offload it to en external device, unmount it then reboot.

Well I'm not sure what external device that was but I woke up, so I'm assuming it worked and on the plus side I can share this horrible experience with you people on the Internet. I'm convinced that Linux nightmares will be the new "Naked Test" dreams in this community.