The problem with Ubuntu is it is fun. So many things to try so many things to install. The other day I was setting up Ubuntu on an old Laptop and was all most done, ready to return it to the owner when I decided to try one more thing. I had never installed the Enlightenment desktop manager in Ubuntu but had recently read about it. Following the directions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Enlightenment I soon had e17 installed. I logged out the logged back in after choosing e17. Everything had worked. After playing around with it for a while I decided to remove e17. Not taking the time to find out how to remove it correctly I type sudo apt-get remove e17. After restarting the computer I was surprised to find I could not get passed the Ubuntu login screen. Turns out I had removed necessary packages for all my window managers. I was not even able to drop to the shell and try and fix the problem so another install was in the work.
Ubuntu allows me to do things I would not even think of doing on Windows or OS X. I just have to remember not to experiment on my production machine or life could get hard.
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