I think it should be called a scrapple. Even though scrapple has nothing to do with apples.

"On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his home in Mexico by a NKVD agent, Ramón Mercader, who buried the pick of an ice axe into Trotsky's skull." That sounds like a piercing headache to me.

PROTIP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key For the lazy: Just do right alt+SysRq+k

On top of what wakingrufus said, it seriously is possible to do almost everything even a power user would want to do in a GUI. In some cases, using a CLI is actually more difficult. Ever try to connect to a wireless network in a terminal? It's a pain in the ass in my experience, almost always.

Chances are a security update won't break your setup, it's entirely possible to update a linux system without breaking most major things. If you can live with not running the most current kernel, not having the newest drivers, and basically not running a bleeding edge desktop you should in most cases be find. This is not always the case, but speaking as someone who's been running linux for a while now and who's tried everything from a bleeding edge system to a less updated system, if you can live without the newest updates for something that aren't for security reasons, do it. Hell, I'd be willing to say that applies with any OS. Not to mention that sometimes the newest versions of things just suck compared to their previous ones. I'm looking at you, Amarok developers.

Assuming ubuntu (considering that's what was discussed before), pulseaudio or possibly alsa-base. I recently had some major issues with my sound on ubuntu, and they were fixed by doing sudo apt-get purge alsa-base pulseaudio && sudo apt-get install pulseaudio alsa-base and installing some packages suggested in this guide.

Just because you can't find something on the internet, it doesn't mean it isn't there.

Yet another great literary work of art from Mrs. Keller. This one belongs right up there next to, "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."