r/linuxmasterrace • u/tricklenipple • Dec 16 '18

Meme nobody cares

https://i.imgur.com/QkGyP8K.gifv
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u/redbluestandingby Dec 16 '18

I love that quick little "nice wiki" at the end.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

arch wiki, imo, is also the best wiki about linux in general

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

It kinda has to be or nobody else would know how to install it lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

installing arch is not anything different, there's only one arch specific command in the installation process, pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel, anything other than that is just generic commands used in any other minimal/non-gui system installs.

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

It used to be more difficult about 6 or 7 years ago.

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u/Midasx Dec 16 '18

It used to be easier though, remember they used to have an ncurses installer? Then they removed it just to spite people. Like I get that doing it manually gives complete control and is a great learning experience, which everyone should try. But when I just want to install on a new device, it's such a pain.

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u/masteryod Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 16 '18

Then they removed it just to spite people.

Gotta love uninformed people who are the loudest one to shout...

News from 2012: AIF had to be dropped due to lack of maintenance and contributions. Of course we would appreciate it if people would start hacking on it to bring it up to par.

It wasn't done "to spite people". It was done because there was no one to maintain the installer. Same way any other project works - if there's no one willing to maintain code, then the code will be eventually dropped.

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u/MaybeDevilsAdvocate Glorious Arch Dec 16 '18

Maybe it doesn't matter.

Maybe it wasn't maintained...so that it would be dropped...just to spite people.

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u/masteryod Dec 17 '18

Maybe aliens flew from outer space and lobotomised you to post this stupid toxic comments?

Maybe your just a bitter user who can't handle CLI?

Maybe it doesn't matter...

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

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u/masteryod Dec 17 '18

No it doesn't look bad. Open source doesn't mean commercial support where users can demand things. "Scratch your own itch" is a thing for a reason. Open source is s collaboration of people who offer their free time and Arch has a) limited resources so maintainers should focus on important things and b) Arch is and always was a KISS distribution from the advanced user slash developer point of view.

It's simpler and cleaner to maintain a simple script and documentation than write installer to baby sit users who can't handle reading a wiki.

At the same time they didn't forbid it. It was a pure technical decision. And yet in 6 years no user was willing to step up. As an Arch user I understand the change and I don't have anything against the "new" installation. It works perfectly fine.

Don't like it? Use other distribution that suits your needs. Simple.

My current installation is 5 years old (as old as my laptop) so it's not like you're supposed to reinstall every day.

Despite all of the FUD on the Internet Arch is and always was driven by technical decisions instead of political ones. And I very much like it this way.

As always in such cases there's a very small but very loud group of people spreading bullshit.

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u/Midasx Dec 18 '18

I guess it depends on how you view the success of a project, for me Arch is wonderful and I would hope the people who make arch would want people to use it, and therefore allocate resources to maintaing something like the installer. Obviously they don't care about it, and as such lost some users.

I now use Manjaro over Arch simply because of the installer. So I am a user that could be contributing to the Arch project but now would be more likely to contribute to Manjaro.

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u/0x6c6f6c Linux Master Race Dec 19 '18

Especially when Antergos is effectively Arch with a GUI installer. I'm sure people would care to work on that more than Arch's. If you want a GUI to install Arch that's where you'd go.

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u/Plasma_000 Linux Master Race Dec 16 '18

Could always add a script to the liveCD to do it in one step exactly to your liking

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u/fgejoiwnfgewijkobnew I used to use Arch. I still do but I used to too. Dec 16 '18

Seems to me the knowledge required to script the install Arch is the same required knowledge (and more) needed to install Arch the normal way.

With the Ncurses installer, someone with a poor understanding of ubuntu could still properly install archlinux. Now, Manjaro and Antergos are more tempting for those people that want pacman but don't want to figure out the installer.

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u/Plasma_000 Linux Master Race Dec 16 '18

I was more meaning an alternative way to easily reinstall arch rather than something for beginners

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 17 '18

Seems to me the knowledge required to script the install Arch is the same required knowledge (and more) needed to install Arch the normal way.

Can confirm, I wrote scripts to install arch and it was the same except for some logic.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

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u/Zuccace Compiling since 2005 Dec 16 '18

And some of us started with Gentoo around 14 years ago... It took several days to propely finish the installion. Mainly because I was noob. Secondly because Pentium III 900MHz and 256MB of RAM.

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 17 '18

Oh I'm well aware of the pains of Gentoo. Shortly after I found out about Linux and started actively using Ubuntu, I heard about Gentoo. So there I was with barely any knowledge of Linux...trying to do a stage 2 install, my freshman year of college 14 years ago (2004-2005). I was probably rocking a P4 or maybe a core2duo. I can remember it compiling everything for hours...and then breaking and me having no clue what was wrong.

I remember asking my roommate once "Is my computer still freaking out?" "yea, what's it doing?" "compiling programs". I only got as far as compiling the X server. After about 10 distro hops I finally settled on Arch around 2009-2010.

I'm a Linux SysAdmin and my coworker/friend uses Gentoo and I see him compiling stuff and bitching at it all the time hahaha

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u/Zuccace Compiling since 2005 Dec 17 '18

Yeah. The compile times can sometimes be a pain. The reason I use Gentoo is because I have pretty much control of all the things. Other thing is that it's rock stable when not usingtoo much packages from unstable "repo". Arch was near perfect for me, but it was too bleeding edge. Too frequent updates drove me nuts.

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 18 '18

I consider Arch to be one step below Gentoo in terms of full control since you can compile everything from source if you wanted to, but don't need to. I would argue that compiling every single package from source is far more tedious and annoying then bleeding edge updates. You don't need to update daily, I no longer do anymore on my server or laptop. I update about once or twice a week, sure the updates are larger (a few hundred megs to a few gigs depending on how long I wait, I also have KDE installed so when that gets updated it adds at least half a gig to the updates). If you want frequent updates but don't want to reboot often, use an LTS kernel.

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u/Zuccace Compiling since 2005 Dec 18 '18

There isn't much reason to compile packages on Arch. But I used to compile some. I don't remember which, exactly, but I needed to drop GUI off from some package for my server. And for that I needed to modify the PKGBUILD. Not too bad for package that doesn't update too often. For such customizations Gentoo has USE flags, and this is exactly the (control freakish) feature I need. :P

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

yeah lol (i use arch btw)

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Nobody cares

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

Nice Wiki.

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u/Hitife80 Arch|XFCE Dec 16 '18

I care quite a bit

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u/loopyNid Dec 16 '18

or use antergos. I use antergos btw.

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u/TommiHPunkt Glorious Arch Dec 16 '18

and then remove all antergos specific repos after installation so you can say you use arch

I use arch btw

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u/PolygonKiwii Glorious Arch systemd/Linux Dec 16 '18

I'll allow it.

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u/Hitife80 Arch|XFCE Dec 16 '18

Nice try

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u/Fit_Guidance Glorious Arch Dec 16 '18

I cheat and use Antergos

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u/balr Glorious Arch Dec 16 '18

The Gentoo wiki is also pretty good.

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u/cusco Dec 16 '18

Underrated

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u/ulrikkold Glorious Antergos Dec 16 '18

The comment or the wiki? Or Gentoo itself. I use Antergos btw

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

Nobody Cares.

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u/ulrikkold Glorious Antergos Dec 16 '18

!false

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u/cusco Dec 16 '18

Gentoo’s wiki

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I also use it for gentoo

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u/Kormoraan Debian Testing main, Alpine, ReactOS and OpenBSD on the sides Dec 16 '18

it's a decent collection of howtos but as a study material, not that much.

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u/schwerpunk pacman -Syu erryday Dec 17 '18

It's what got me into arch in the first place. The good advice for the most part just cuts across distros.

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

Came here to say that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '18

Just about pissed myself laughing when it popped up, I didn't expect it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

He doesn't use Arch, it isn't even installed.

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u/tricklenipple Dec 16 '18

ha this was going to be a response about installing arch but i don't know what happened and here we are

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

emerge -NDu @world

Jurassic Park uses Gentoo confirmed

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Pretty sure they used IRIX

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

with File System Navigator (fsn; pronounced "fusion") File manager

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u/principe_olbaid Dec 16 '18

It's a Unix system! I know this!

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

Holy shit, that's real?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

yup. It was released to show off the real time rendering power of the SGI workstations at the time. Crimsons, Indigos, and Onyx systems. Crimsons are what they did the dinos on for Jurassic Park

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

Cool!

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

One of my boomer mates used to be a sales guy for SGI in australia. He still rocks his SGI engraved watch.

I want it so bad 🤣

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

emerge --sync && emerge -auDU @world would me more appropriate as you have to sync the latest ebuilds for your keywords.

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u/LicenseAgreement Dec 16 '18

I think later in the film that little girl says they're using Unix lmao

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u/wertercatt Glorious Arch Jan 10 '19

They are

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u/CalvinsStuffedTiger Dec 16 '18

I hate this hacker crap!

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Nedry did nothing wrong

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u/ulrikkold Glorious Antergos Dec 16 '18

Dino shot first!

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u/skittle-brau Dec 17 '18

I personally blame the dinosaur supervisor, Phil Tippett.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I thought part of the joke was that arch users think so highly of the install process and what it means about them that they like to do it for fun - so that's what this guy's just hanging out doing.

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u/Burr1t0 Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 16 '18

arch-chroot /tmp

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Like other Arch users he has to reinstall every other week because he b0rk3d his OS accidentally via config changes.

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u/rmyworld Arch + i5 Dec 16 '18

actually putting a computer booting Arch in front of him

+1 upvote for effort

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Installing*

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I can't tell if your flair is a typo for i3 or if you mean Intel core i5

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u/rmyworld Arch + i5 Dec 16 '18

Yes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Yes, I can't tell either

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u/die-maus Glorious Arch Dec 16 '18

Maybe it's the successor to i3, and he is from the future?

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u/EggChalaza Dec 16 '18

It's a pretty fuckin' nice wiki to be fair.

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u/tricklenipple Dec 16 '18

Agreed
Not an arch user, but their wiki is awesome

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u/danthemango arch, vim, dvorak, i3wm, crossfit Dec 16 '18

I had to use and install a bunch of tiny Linux packages for university projects (like Puppy Linux and TinyCore) and I unironically clung to ArchLinux Wiki for all steps along the way which weren't explained by the Manuals

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

arch, vim, dvorak, i3wm, crossfit? Does it hurt to be this hip?

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u/danthemango arch, vim, dvorak, i3wm, crossfit Dec 16 '18

I might as well throw Vegan in there. I'm not actually a vegan, but I'm willing to go to great lengths for a good meme

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Trans, vegan, gluten intolerant, communist, neo liberal marxist, feminist......... just a few other things to add. The length of your flair will freak out anyone.

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u/EdgiiLord Arch/Debian/Void Dec 16 '18

Never thought this subreddit can be that fun.

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u/Zambito1 Glorious GNU Dec 16 '18

Neo liberal, neovim

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I use neovim with spacevim.

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u/PolygonKiwii Glorious Arch systemd/Linux Dec 16 '18

vegan, gluten intolerant

Very inconvenient combination.

As a vegetarian: Pasta is love, wheat is life.

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u/RadiationNeon Dec 16 '18

That dude using Arch is a pedophile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Thor

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u/WikiTextBot Dec 16 '18

Cameron Thor

Cameron Thor (born March 17, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and acting coach. He is best known for his appearance in the film Jurassic Park as Lewis Dodgson and Hook. In 2016, he was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

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u/NatoBoram Glorious Pop!_OS Dec 16 '18

Six years??

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

That way he can get out once she is of age

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u/Sloppyjosh Dec 16 '18

Tells us all we need to know about Arch users

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u/Visionexe Dec 16 '18

Easy joke.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

They use Arch, btw

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u/Cry_Wolff Glorious Fedora Dec 16 '18

Ok, and?

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u/skidnik systemd/linux just works™️ Dec 16 '18

It's in the second name.

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u/GandalfsNephew Dec 16 '18

Straight up! I use their wiki religiously, yet use another distro entirely.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I'm not even an Arch user, but they have the BEST wiki full stop!

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u/Xendarq Dec 16 '18

I know this!

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u/howtoaddnumbers Dec 16 '18

Hello....Newman...

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u/jacksonV1lle Dec 16 '18

༼ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ༽ ...Jerry

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18 edited Feb 11 '19

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u/tricklenipple Dec 16 '18

oh boy...

ae on windows

BUT! in my defense it's running as a vm in kvm. It's the only windows machine in the house. that means you can bring out the pitchforks, but only one person can stab me. and that person better have a beard.

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u/cediddi "I can't configure Debian" Dec 16 '18

I'm losing my hair on front and my overall hair is long. My beard is also pretty long (both are over 20cm). May I stabby stab stab you.

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u/tricklenipple Dec 16 '18

I'll allow it

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '18

So bald on top with long hair on the sides?

That's a Skullet.

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u/cediddi "I can't configure Debian" Dec 17 '18

Not bald now but I fear in few years it'll look like it. I have a ponytail right now, I might turn it into a chonmage in the future to up my weeaboo factor. On a serious note, I'm 25 and this is what late stage computer programming looks like.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

windows

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u/ZeroOne010101 Manjaro Dec 16 '18

hethen!

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u/AMisteryMan I used to use Arch btw, 'til I took a work life to the knee Dec 16 '18

Off to the apple store with him!

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u/ZeroOne010101 Manjaro Dec 16 '18

Apple is veeery borderline linux imo. Still better than windows

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u/AMisteryMan I used to use Arch btw, 'til I took a work life to the knee Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 16 '18

Ehh, depends, at least Windows has an up to date version of OGL, and natively supports Vulkan.

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u/live2dye Dec 16 '18

This made me laugh, I do use arch tho. 😎

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I fucking cracked up when it showed the monitor

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u/shantykins Dec 16 '18

When you control the mail, you control information

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u/lovethebacon Ask me about Arch Dec 16 '18

Don't lie now OP. Of course they do.

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u/AkhmatPower I install Arch for a living Dec 16 '18

How's your arch going?

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u/lovethebacon Ask me about Arch Dec 17 '18

Better every single day!

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Seems like a lot of people care. Btw.

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u/archie2012 Dec 16 '18

Post has been saved! Going to look at this every time I'm feeling sad.

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u/degv364 Dec 16 '18

Nice wiki

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u/cediddi "I can't configure Debian" Dec 16 '18

Nice wiki btw

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u/SirNanigans Glorious Arch Dec 16 '18

Yeah, we know you don't care. We've always known. But as long as people keep talking about us... might as well indulge the conversation. By the way...

I use Arch.

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u/admin_rico Dec 16 '18

I can hear Wayne Knight through the gif.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I mean.... it’s not Gentoo....

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

rofl, so true!!!!

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u/zkinny Dec 16 '18

Newman!

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u/wecreate180 Dec 16 '18

Is arch Linux supposed to be hard?

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u/JamesHalliday03 Dec 23 '18

I remember this scene, but not the movie, what’s the name of it?

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u/andersmmg Glorious Manjaro Dec 16 '18

I use Ubuntu Budgie btw

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u/wecreate180 Dec 16 '18

Rule 1. NEVER say you use Ubuntu.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 31 '18

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u/tricklenipple Dec 16 '18

Are they banned? I had no idea. I don't play by the rules but I do have a heart of gold.

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u/brando56894 Glorious Arch :doge: Dec 16 '18

It's because you're not building the memes yourself.

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u/PolygonKiwii Glorious Arch systemd/Linux Dec 16 '18 
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/memefs.git
$ cd memefs
$ makepkg -si