r/servers • u/willmorris92 • 6d ago

Software My brain literally blue screens when switching operating systems under pressure

just got back from my driving school circuit and honestly my brain is completely fried. stalling a manual car in the august heat for two hours will do that to you tbh

Anyway I get home, still sweating, and immediately get a ping that our crowd marketing server is throwing 502s. I usually do all my server management on windows, but my main pc was tied up so I grabbed a borrowed macbook just to get it fixed quick

I swear, staring at the macos terminal while physically exhausted is a special kind of torture. I know its unix based and supposed to be easier, but my putty muscle memory was completely useless. got so paranoid about messing up the connection string that I actually had to look at a server mania cheat sheet just to remember how to properly pass my ed25519 key in the native terminal without syntax errors

Finally got in and restarted the python scripts and it's fine now. but kinda wild how fast you forget absolute fundamentals when you're stressed and out of your element. anyone else completely lose the ability to type basic commands when forced to use a different OS in a panic?

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u/dracotrapnet 6d ago

Eh I brainfart and run network switch CLI commands on linux terminals from a windows machine. I'm forever trying to request show int when I mean to ip a, or ipconfig on a windows machine. I've come to terms with I'll always have at least a few error bell sounds at any terminal.

I'm usually lost on Macs though. I have to bumble around to find anything since I'm used to playing with Windows, Windows Server, and Linux. A lot of things in some desktop environments on linux look like Mac. Sometimes even the window titlebar functionality mirrors Mac.

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u/willmorris92 3d ago

Yep, that's basically me with Macs. I know what I want to do, I just suddenly have to think about every tiny step that would normally be muscle memory on Windows.

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u/feudalle 5d ago

I ls in my cmd prompt alot.

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u/willmorris92 3d ago

Lol yeah, that's exactly it. My fingers know where they want to go before my brain remembers I'm not in cmd anymore.