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I’m waiting for the Arch LTS edition.
Please someone create a BTW fork of Arch. Then people can say “I use Arch BTW BTW”
I’m shocked it hasn’t been done already.
There is a “I use arch btw” programming language though…
Rust?
No, they meant that literally https://esolangs.org/wiki/I_use_Arch_btw
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.
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.
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.
Not one of the 80 different Copilots?
I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.
Just like microsoft’s software paradigms!
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
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 “Technically it’s Ubuntu, not Linux” so I thought Ubuntu was an entirely separate OS that I had just never heard of before
Btw! How has your experience with it been!?
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.
I LOVE the idea of flavours. I always add a bit of Linux mint to my rum distribution for a good Linux mojito.
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 :(
oh, i think i’ll have a tab.
Tab? Can’t give you a tab unless you order something.
Fine give me a Pepsi free
jeez this is hard. Where’s my Tab?
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.Legend has it that they moved to “Press a key to continue” because then people would just press A, which would work.
Oh god, I only have an upper case A key, where the a key?
Presses ESC, then the power button.
Press the power button
I don’t use Arch BTW
i don’t recommend Arch smh
I never liked Arch tbh
Many people do seem to like Arch fwiw
At least Windows appears user friendly. Arch otoh is quite hard to set up the first time.
I mean, does anyone even use Arch irl?
Linux newbies shouldn’t use Arch imho
i concur, but a lot of people do start out with Arch afaict
I think it’s okay to start with arch BYMMV
Like any DIY project; some love it, some hate it, some would prefer something that was already set up for them.
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.Where do I download archinstall?
Genuinely can’t tell if you’re missing the joke or you’re just committed to playing the straight man.
Bruh, no need to rip OP out of the closet in a random Linux thread.
I like it, but it certainly isn’t for everyone.
So what, it’s different from Arch smh
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?
sydney morning herald my head
I just read it as a phonetic noise, not unlike “smeh”.
dammit i’ve watched that 20 times and smeh is starting to not look like a word now
I thought it meant “something” until I used it with my wife and was corrected
I thought it was “so much hate” for many years, before I finally looked it up
Its actually ‘smack my hand’, as in give me a high five. I use Arch smack my hand
no as of right of this moment i started reading it as Shaking My How
I don’t use Arch tbh, or Arche afaik.
I fucking love Arch IMO
Reddit post and [Deleted] user name a more iconic duo
Donald and Jeffrey
Gotta
sudo pacman -S btwto get the btw packagesI’m actually disappointed this isn’t a real package. https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=btw
alias btw=fastfetch
I know right? I also checked earlier, I was like… at least 40% sure that there probably was some weird niche utility with that acronym, but evidently not :3
There is this one: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/buildbtw/
Has to be shitpost right?
Of course, but someone should keep it going anyway by making an actual fork of arch called arch btw.
Arch is a practical joke played on Linux users that got completely out of hand
Wow, I kinda need to update… I’ve been stuck on outdated Arch afaik
Someone should add
-b,-tand-wflags to the Archinstall scriptor --btw
it should install nothing but the least installed package in pacman
I use Arch btw btw
I use arch BMW
