Not when your new kernels continually refuse to boot.
Of course thing like this could happen if you don't know the hardware you working on, or if you don't know you need ppp networking or not.
(but acctually I don't know how, unless you're using 1.0 kernel and have very new hardware)

But if you don't know these things, then go better play with kids baseball or something. You're not worth newbie's name. Computers aren't for you.