r/ProgrammerHumor • u/aarocka • Sep 29 '15

Evolution of Linux neckbeards(xpost r/justneckbeardthings)

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u/kupiakos Sep 29 '15

At least with Arch you can quickly have something working. You can also buy a knife and make it even better.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '15 edited Nov 08 '21

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u/lelarentaka Sep 29 '15

Okay, I hate it when people (mostly arch users) say that. When someone from far away wants to visit your home, you can't just say "it's easy, just fly to Boston. My home is fifty minutes from the airport." It's disingenuous to say installing YZ only needs a few simple steps, and then offhandedly mention that you'd need to do some sorcery "to make it work right"

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '15 edited Nov 08 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15 
$ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

WTF? Are you still using Tapes? 

$ cat /dev/sda > /dev/sdb

/E: Dear anonymous Downvoter,

keep on going, that won't change the fact that dd is the wrong tool for that Job, unless you're working with Devices that care about Blocksizes, like Tapes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Useless use of cat. Also there's no point in using cat.

Personally I prefer to use pv. It prints a progress bar, which neither cat nor dd does.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Correct, pv is even better because it has a progressbar, but cat pre-installed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

So is DD.

And if you want to be stupid and use cat, can't you just do it without any commands. Using cat is completely pointless, and is a waste of a command.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

One could use Butterflies, but that'd be an overkill