So by now that roommate is probably convinced that Ubuntu (and Linux, by extension) is impossibly glitchy and unusable in the real world. Gee, thanks a lot from all of us working hard to make all that stuff actually work.

Nah, he's a die-hard Linux user like me. He's actually the one who convinced me to switch to Linux on the desktop full-time.

This belongs on Reddit.

I'd say this kind of pranking is exactly the kind of thing that fits in a place called Hacker News!

I'll post it on /r/programming!

It's not very funny. Just a bit of a shitty thing to do to someone.

Uh, random pop-up is easy to spot. A really unfunny thing would be blinking the display and changing resolution.

It seems to have wasted a lot of the person's time.

> I cannot count how many reboots, driver re-installations, kernel modifications there were.

Wow, this is taking pranking to the next level..