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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#52 · (edited) Quote Reply
adam_y wrote:
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dammit i've watched that 20 times and smeh is starting to not look like a word now
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potoooooooo 🥔 lemmy.world ivanafterall@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#53 · Quote Reply
NeatNit wrote:
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.
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xylol leminal.space xylol@leminal.space
Joined: 2025-05-20
#54 · Quote Reply
bridgeburner wrote:
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?

Its actually 'smack my hand', as in give me a high five.
I use Arch smack my hand
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#55 · Quote Reply

Has to be shitpost right?
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TheGiantKorean lemmy.today TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-10-07
#56 · Quote Reply

Please someone create a BTW fork of Arch. Then people can say "I use Arch BTW BTW"
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zurohki aussie.zone zurohki@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#57 · Quote Reply
quediuspayu wrote:
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.
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NeilNuggetstrong lemmy.world NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#58 · Quote Reply
potoooooooo 🥔 wrote:
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.
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Bubs12 lemmy.cafe Bubs12@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2025-06-05
#59 · Quote Reply
TheGiantKorean wrote:
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.
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NoSpotOfGround lemmy.world NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#60 · Quote Reply
zurohki wrote:
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?
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festnt sh.itjust.works festnt@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-04-18
#61 · Quote Reply
ChaoticNeutralCzech wrote:
Someone should add -b, -t and -w flags to the Archinstall script

or --btw

it should install nothing but the least installed package in pacman
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schipelblorp sh.itjust.works schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-05-16
#62 · Quote Reply
justme wrote:
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.
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ranzispa mander.xyz ranzispa@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-10-18
#63 · Quote Reply
Don't forget to stay hydrated.🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 wrote:
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 ...

I LOVE the idea of flavours. I always add a bit of Linux mint to my rum distribution for a good Linux mojito.
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swab148 lemmy.dbzer0.com swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
#64 · Quote Reply
bridgeburner wrote:
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?

I thought it was "so much hate" for many years, before I finally looked it up
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swab148 lemmy.dbzer0.com swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
#65 · Quote Reply
schipelblorp wrote:
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?
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schipelblorp sh.itjust.works schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-05-16
#66 · Quote Reply
swab148 wrote:
Not one of the 80 different Copilots?

I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.
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myotheraccount lemmy.world myotheraccount@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-27
#67 · Quote Reply
schipelblorp wrote:
I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.

Just like microsoft's software paradigms!
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Mr.Chewy lemmy.world MrChewy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-22
#68 · Quote Reply
Bubs12 wrote:
I’m shocked it hasn’t been done already.

There is a "I use arch btw" programming language though...
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john_lemmy slrpnk.net john_lemmy@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-21
#69 · Quote Reply
Don't forget to stay hydrated.🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 wrote:
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 ...

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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Valmond lemmy.dbzer0.com Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-11-13
#70 · Quote Reply
Deebster wrote:

Presses ESC, then the power button.
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horn_e4_beaver discuss.tchncs.de horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-09-05
#71 · (edited) Quote Reply

I'm waiting for the Arch LTS edition.
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Lovable Sidekick lemmy.world LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-10-19
#72 · (edited) Quote Reply

I don't use Arch tbh, or Arche afaik.
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parricc lemmy.world parricc@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#73 · (edited) Quote Reply
/home/pineapplelover wrote:
Has to be shitpost right?

Of course, but someone should keep it going anyway by making an actual fork of arch called arch btw.
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spitfire lemmy.world spitfire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#74 · Quote Reply

I don’t use Arch BTW
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zane infosec.pub zane@infosec.pub
Joined: 2024-05-05
#75 · Quote Reply
Mr.Chewy wrote:
There is a "I use arch btw" programming language though...

Rust?
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some_kind_of_guy lemmy.world some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-14
#76 · Quote Reply
Lovable Sidekick wrote:
I don't use Arch tbh, or Arche afaik.

I fucking love Arch IMO
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MousePotatoDoesStuff piefed.social MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-04-22
#77 · Quote Reply
chi-chan~ wrote:
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?
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NeatNit discuss.tchncs.de NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2024-01-05
#78 · Quote Reply
zane wrote:
Rust?

No, they meant that literally https://esolangs.org/wiki/I_use_Arch_btw
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justme lemmy.dbzer0.com justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-04-17
#79 · Quote Reply
schipelblorp wrote:
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.

yeah, that's like the constant rebooting of movies instead of coming up with something new ;)
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HoloPengin lemmy.world HoloPengin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#80 · Quote Reply
NeatNit wrote:
No, they meant that literally https://esolangs.org/wiki/I_use_Arch_btw

Oh it's just brainfuck
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LuigiLafontaine thelemmy.club LuigiLafontaine@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-06-17
#81 · Quote Reply

I use Arch btw.
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