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    [–] [email protected] 179 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    But are the thigh high socks provided or must I purchase them separately?

    [–] [email protected] 111 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You'll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised

    [–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    TIL that unix socks are actually a parasitic lifeform, transmitted via arch isos.

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago

    More of a symbiot than a parasite, it's not like the host doesn't benefit from them!

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

    That's why I only use my socks by proxy

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Installing Arch makes you a Femboy?

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    It's probably not mandatory, I imagine the arch wiki explains all the details

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago
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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

    I really want one of those pairs, for my knees get cold in winters.

    Guess I'll install Arch for a freebie.

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    [–] [email protected] 125 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    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!

    [–] flambonkscious 31 points 4 months ago

    I think that's the idea - I love how this is a double entendre for those that know....

    [–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    If a laptop is left unattended long enough to do a fresh Arch install, it's probably been abandoned anyway.

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Unnaproved software installation implies an obligation to provide user support... indefinitely.

    [–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The arch installing bandit is anonymous. Noone knows how to reach him

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Like the guy that installed Windows on your machine without you asking...

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    That same guy started covertly encrypting users' data and then the fucking keys stopped working. I'll take zero support over that.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I head cannon the arch installation bandit as a girl.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Why is it "head cannon" and not "head canon"? You got some kind of gun strapped to your head that you keep stories in?

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

    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!

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

    Is there an arch alternative for Yuki installs Gentoo?

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

    The hell it does.

    You've spent too much time talking to my family.

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    [–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

    Yes, the crime of giving them a stable OS that once it is set up keeps working reliably for years to come.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    The real hell would be gentoo

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    No way, at least Gentoo is up to date

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    not by the time it's done compiling, it's not

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    "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!

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Does Carmen San Diego work there or something?

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Using two asterisks makes things italic. You can only use one

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    Just drop a \ in front of the first * and you're all good.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    dammit I should know this by now lma

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    broken Nvidia Optimus free of charge

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Afaik Nvidia Optimus works fine on arch if setup following the wiki. It's mainly other distros that have Nvidia problems.

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Kinda wish someone would do this to me, because I'm never going to balls to do it myself

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    archinstall and wiki. Its easy if you've got nothing to prove.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
    distrobox create fakearch --image arch
    
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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    What if I got Secure Boot with custom keys?

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    You gotta first find Carmen Sandiego to then become Carmen Sandiego.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

    Where do I drop them off?

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