You'll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised
I really want one of those pairs, for my knees get cold in winters.
Guess I'll install Arch for a freebie.
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
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!
I think that's the idea - I love how this is a double entendre for those that know....
If a laptop is left unattended long enough to do a fresh Arch install, it's probably been abandoned anyway.
Unnaproved software installation implies an obligation to provide user support... indefinitely.
That same guy started covertly encrypting users' data and then the fucking keys stopped working. I'll take zero support over that.
Why is it "head cannon" and not "head canon"? You got some kind of gun strapped to your head that you keep stories in?
Actually I think they mean that "as a girl" (meaning the commenter is a girl), they "head cannon" (meaning they use a cannon to shoot heads) "at the arch installation bandit". I hope this annotated version helps!
I head cannon the arch installation bandit as a girl.
Quaffing the potion of gender stability, now in your female form you strap on the head cannon and fire it at the arch installation bandit.
The arch bandit takes 5d7 damage and collapses prone. Seeing their leader defeated, the subordinate installation bandits flee. You have reclaimed Installation Cathedral from the bandits and can now invite the Installation Medium to summon the spirits of past operating systems.
It also requires that they migrate all of my files and ensure I have full functionality my software and games.
Yes, the crime of giving them a stable OS that once it is set up keeps working reliably for years to come.
"Punish"? See how they react when they boot into TempleOS.
Oh, only Linux? There's always Hannah Montana or North Korea Linux...but that'd be giving a foreign dictatorship a botnet node...
In which case I was gonna say "Well an NSA-friendly OS would be funny" but then we're just back to Windows!
Its redhat, nyuk nyuk nyuk. https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux
Or maybe Carmen is a Linux user idk i just work here man.
Afaik Nvidia Optimus works fine on arch if setup following the wiki. It's mainly other distros that have Nvidia problems.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Pardon my 🤮, but please don't remind me of that foul fucking land, my friend. I was eating.
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.
On first book have a bootable Fedora usb stick plugged in and hit f2/f10/f12 before the windows logo ever appears. Problem solved!
Kinda wish someone would do this to me, because I'm never going to balls to do it myself
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.
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...)
Become a Red Hat employee and you get one for free.
(genuinely, I know this sounds like a joke)
I've messed around with Linux before but, I can't seem to find the time to relearn how to get a thumb drive of an easy distro on one. One day I'll get the thing working.
Thanks friend, for some reason I couldn't find this when I was googling "boot Linux from thumb drive". Much appreciated.
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.
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.
If you want the best of both worlds, go for EndeavourOS, an arch based distro.
Pretty chill GUI installer, only comes with the basic stuff and what you choose in the installer, like the desktop environment.
A few clicks and you have a functional arch install with everything setup.
The CLI installer was not a problem. The problem is complete lack of stability, inability to use software like AutoCAD, Inventor or CorelDRAW, and wasting hours of short life for configuration of things, about which you just do not need to think on Windows. Anyway, the least useless distro I found is MX Linux, but after few years with experimenting with Linux, I happily went back to Windows.
Fredom to what? To wasting time on configuration of every basic functionality of my computer?
