In an earlier xkcd blag post, Randall talked about messing up his Linux box so badly that someone trying to help him fix it said "your computer looks like a red

In an earlier xkcd blag post, Randall talked about messing up his Linux box so badly that someone trying to help him fix it said "your computer looks like a redshirt after a transporter accident". That analogy has stuck with me ever since and I use it most often to describe Python installations.