• smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      113·
      5 months ago

      You’ll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      I really want one of those pairs, for my knees get cold in winters.

      Guess I’ll install Arch for a freebie.

    • AShadyRaven@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      like jurassic park, life finds a way

      Comouter scientists are now able to change gender as an evolutionary response to the lack of women in STEM fields

      the socks are not mandatory, they are just given out in case anyone is chosen to be the new cutest girl in the office

      i will warn you that if you ever start saying “mrrrp…nya :3” even as a joke, it WILL trigger the process to begin

      …oh shit wait

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    126·
    5 months ago

    Ordinarily I would be fine with this. I use Arch anyway. But an Arch system configured by somebody else? I’d be safer leaving my laptop at home!

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    85·
    5 months ago

    If a laptop is left unattended long enough to do a fresh Arch install, it’s probably been abandoned anyway.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    68·
    5 months ago

    Unnaproved software installation implies an obligation to provide user support… indefinitely.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    5 months ago

    Easy. Buy a new laptop, let them upgrade from w•ndows to arch, then dump arch for something like MX or whatever else I use in the future. Then I wouldn’t have to touch the default w•ndows installation forced into me.

    • Nutteman@lemmy.world
      26·
      5 months ago

      Look, windows is bad, but we should reserve asterisks for actually bad things that require censoring in all circumstances, such as Br*t*sh or *ng*l*sh.

              • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.orgEnglish
                3·
                5 months ago

                Not sure what lists you’re talking about, but it’s nerding time anyway.

                The backslash (the \ symbol) is used to “escape” characters in the software world, i.e. tell the software to treat the following character as a simple symbol, not some instruction. It’s very well-known among developers, so if they happen to be the ones writing guides on Markdown (the syntax where you use asterisks and some other symbols to dictate the final layout while having the luxury of being able to edit the document in a plain-text editor), it can actually elude them because it’s mundane.

                In fact, some software won’t allow you to use the backslash in short text fields such as names or passwords because doing so could potentially open up security risks where the malicious actors “inject” some instructions into software to cause all sorts of trouble. On the other hand, this is probably a redundant old measure, as there are usually other means to prevent this kind of attack today, but that’s the power of habit, I guess; and, well, if it’s a simple measure that works, there’s not much reason to get rid of it, is there?

        • Nutteman@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          Pardon my 🤮, but please don’t remind me of that foul fucking land, my friend. I was eating.

        • Nutteman@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 months ago

          They’re a disgusting affront to human nature. Of all the islands in the world, you pick a non-tropical one? Shameful actions, hominids are meant to be tropical creatures.

    • Gingernate@programming.dev
      3·
      5 months ago

      On first book have a bootable Fedora usb stick plugged in and hit f2/f10/f12 before the windows logo ever appears. Problem solved!

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
      10·
      5 months ago

      Afaik Nvidia Optimus works fine on arch if setup following the wiki. It’s mainly other distros that have Nvidia problems.

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Exactly, while RTFM I haven’t have a single issue (apart from the driver quirks itself) and even automated the driver patching for NvFBC. Usual error is using nvidia-dkms and not setting up proper hook to rebuild the kernel module on kernel updates.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      5 months ago

      Recently wanted to try KDE 6 on my second laptop and after being pissed off at the lack of encryption with Void installer (gotta do it manually, have done it in the past but I’m lazy), another fail with NixOs (known bug with encryption in the latest stable installer) the easiest way was installing Arch lol.

      I used archinstall as suggested, just answer questions, no manual voodoo incantation required. You can do it.

      • JATth@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        The time you took to answer the archinstall questions and what would take to do them manually is (nearly) the same. The manual way is that you are forced learn the system (which does take time), and it’s thus more exact of what you want. Once you successfully boot a manual install on a bare hardware, you’ll get all the swag. ;)

        (I was lazy last time I had to do a full install, and I prepared the system almost entirely in a VM, for which I used the physical disk I would finally boot it from. The final step was to chroot’d into the nearly complete system and make it boot outside of the VM…)

  • JATth@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 months ago

    I actually don’t get the fuzz/meme about Arch Linux. Yes, the installer drops you into a shell where you need to fix the keyboard layout for starters and the next thing is preparing enough disk resources for the OS which is somehow ungodly hard. My point is that if you can’t then you are not qualified to maintain the installation, or actually RTFM and start to fr think what you do.

      • JATth@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Why would learning be gatekeeping? I wish I could just teach my secrets… The manuals are only a shallow guide to knowledge. E.g. ls, has condensed for me to ls -laR mostly, and that ls<tab> usually gives tools that list something. ch<tab> gives tools to “change something”, like chmod. mk<tab> to “create something” mkdir etc.

        I may navigate in the terminal, but putting me at front of Blender etc. and I’m back to crawling speed of RTFM, and all I would see is a zoo of buttons.