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oh, i think i'll have a tab.
Tab? Canβt give you a tab unless you order something.
Fine give me a Pepsi free
jeez this is hard. Where's my Tab?
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.
Oh god, I only have an upper case A key, where the a key?
Press the power button
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i don't recommend Arch smh
I never liked Arch tbh
Many people do seem to like Arch fwiw
At least Windows appears user friendly. Arch otoh is quite hard to set up the first time.
I mean, does anyone even use Arch irl?
Linux newbies shouldn't use Arch imho
i concur, but a lot of people do start out with Arch afaict
I think it's okay to start with arch BYMMV
I tried, but mine still just says it's Arch lmao.
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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.
Genuinely can't tell if you're missing the joke or you're just committed to playing the straight man.
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So what, it's different from Arch smh
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?
sydney morning herald my head
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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 didn't even know what a partition was.
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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Lol yeah I can see how that can be confusing. I was introduced to Ubuntu early as a student through lab PCs, so I just assumed people just said linux, when they meant Ubuntu Linux. Nowadays I use Arch btw
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Please someone create a BTW fork of Arch. Then people can say "I use Arch BTW BTW"
Iβm shocked it hasnβt been done already.
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Gotta sudo pacman -S btw to get the btw packages
I'm actually disappointed this isn't a real package. https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=btw
I know right? I also checked earlier, I was like.. at least 40% sure that there probably was some weird niche utility with that acronym, but evidently not :3
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alias btw=fastfetch
I'm waiting for the Arch LTS edition.
Wow, I kinda need to update... I've been stuck on outdated Arch afaik
I use Arch btw btw
It is the transfem version of arch (boy to woman)
Not to be confused with Arch Bitch to Witch.
Arch is a practical joke played on Linux users that got completely out of hand
I donβt use Arch BTW
I use arch BMW
You need at least 10000000 good boy points for that one.
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