i don't use arche btw (assets.chaos.social)
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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I've seen this, here is when you point at a random key and tell them that the "any" key is that one.
    Back then when using a computer at work was still rather uncommon you could tell them it was the K and some used that key for years.

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  • [–] 124 points 5 months ago (22 children)
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  • [–] 65 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Many people do seem to like Arch fwiw

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    At least Windows appears user friendly. Arch otoh is quite hard to set up the first time.

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  • [–] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    I mean, does anyone even use Arch irl?

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Linux newbies shouldn't use Arch imho

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    i concur, but a lot of people do start out with Arch afaict

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Not really. You can use archinstall. And the guide is quite clear; I'd say it's more time consuming the first time than actually hard.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Am I the only one who reads smh as 'somehow'? I know it stands for shake my head, but in my mind it always expands to 'somehow'. Am I weird?

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  • [–] 109 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    This might have actually happened.
    When I first got a computer I had to put some OS on it. I've heard of this thing called Linux, and found about distributions. BUT, "flavors of Linux" was a terrible description.
    I wanted the original.
    Just pure Linux, nothing else. No Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, no, just pure Linux and nothing else than Linux.

    I kept searching for that for quite a while. Kernel? I didn't even know what a partition was.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    i guess that is a problem of many open source projects, in particular when they define a standard so that there are different apps with a variety of names. e.g. the server implementation of mumble used to be called murmur, or the "mainstream" client of matrix is element.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    And I guess that's the opposite problem that for-profit products have, so desperate to maximize every marketing dollar that every fucking thing has the same name in it even if it's a fundamentally different product.

    Microsoft Outlook is the poster child of this in the software space.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not one of the 80 different Copilots?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Lol yeah I can see how that can be confusing. I was introduced to Ubuntu early as a student through lab PCs, so I just assumed people just said linux, when they meant Ubuntu Linux. Nowadays I use Arch btw

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I had a similar but different experience. My first in-person introduction to Linux was Ubuntu via some training for a job. When the class referred to it as Linux, our instructor would tell us β€œTechnically it’s Ubuntu, not Linux” so I thought Ubuntu was an entirely separate OS that I had just never heard of before

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Btw! How has your experience with it been!?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I really like it so far. Using it on my laptop as a learning experience. Won't be the end of the world if I seriously mess it up or something breaks. Got timeshift installed and have all dotfiles backed up with etckeeper and chezmoi. Also have a list of packages backed up, so I'm feeling confident I can readily set it up again from scratch if need be

    I still use bazzite on my gaming PC since I need it to just work and just launch my games, but that might change as I get more experienced.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Makes sense. "Everyone" knows a lot about windows' jargon and UX due to its prominence in education, work and consumer market (turns out for-profit corpos have a bunch of money to throw around). I wish I knew about Linux when I was much younger :(

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  • [–] 61 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Please someone create a BTW fork of Arch. Then people can say "I use Arch BTW BTW"

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I’m shocked it hasn’t been done already.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    There is a "I use arch btw" programming language though...

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  • [–] 45 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Reddit post and [Deleted] user name a more iconic duo

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Gotta sudo pacman -S btw to get the btw packages

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    I'm waiting for the Arch LTS edition.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Wow, I kinda need to update... I've been stuck on outdated Arch afaik

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    I use Arch btw btw

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    It is the transfem version of arch (boy to woman)

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Arch is a practical joke played on Linux users that got completely out of hand

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I don’t use Arch BTW

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  • I use arch BMW

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    You need at least 10000000 good boy points for that one.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Someone needs to make an install script that just does that!

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don't use Arch tbh, or Arche afaik.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Ever since the rsync debacle, I'm afraid of updating my installation of Arch lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Arch BTW BTW.

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  • I use Arch btw.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Oh I found it... btw πŸ˜‚

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