Hello World....is there anybody out there?
This is my message in a bottle. I believe that I may have fallen down the rabbit hole. I am writing in hope of contacting the outside world after becoming trapped in a CentOS console for the past 17 days.
I have recently become embroiled in the murky underworld of Linux. Bewitched by this alternative OS I believe that I may have got in over my head. My arrogance and ego got the better of me. I have become intoxicated by the power flowing via the conduit of my fingertips. Through conversing with the mysterious deity that the worshippers of this Unix-like cult call 'The CLI.'
Quickly tiring of simple incantations such is ls, mkdir and touch, I decided to step things up and attempt to perform some advanced conjuration, summoning The CLI without the protection of the one that they call the GNOME.
'The GNOME...'
Without a second thought or a moment of hesitation I spoke the following words via my keyboard:
'systemctl set-default multi-user.target'
'reboot'
Before I knew it, I was gone. I was lost. Sucked into the black hole to another dimension. This was a world without my protector. My guide. My saviour. This was a world without GNOME.
This realm was bleak. Empty. Black. Blacker than the deepest, loneliest depths of space. I was alone and missing my journal with the words that I needed to speak in order to summon back the GNOME.
I spent days using all that I have learned to find a way home. Feeling despair I was about to give up when I stumbled unto a gateway upon using a magical combination.
Ctrl + Alt + F2
With a flicker I was transported into yet another dimensional plane, part of a collection of lands known as the Virtual Consoles. This new realm was similar to the last but different all the same. I started to feel empowered and that perhaps I didn't need to have the GNOME watching over me.
I had hope.
Could it be that if I kept leaping from console to console, striving to put right what once went wrong, that maybe, just maybe my next leap could be the leap home?
'To be continued....'
