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.
On first book have a bootable Fedora usb stick plugged in and hit f2/f10/f12 before the windows logo ever appears. Problem solved!
Look, windows is bad, but we should reserve asterisks for actually bad things that require censoring in all circumstances, such as Brtsh or ngl*sh.
What’s wrong with being British?
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.
Using two asterisks makes things italic. You can only use one
Just drop a \ in front of the first * and you’re all good.
dammit I should know this by now lma
Its weirdly the one I don’t see on the lists and its pretty useful.
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?
Whoopsie 🤡
Not to be confused with the “🤮” Emoji, which is reserved for the word “fr🤮nch”
after i did such a harm to myself (installing arch), now i use windows 11
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.
“After I harmed myself (escaped to freedom), I decided to return to my prison”
I actually dont 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 ungoldy hard. My point is that if you can’t then you are not qualified to maintain the installation, or rtfm actually and start to fr think what you do.
I love gatekeeping Linux distros
If a laptop is left unattended long enough to do a fresh Arch install, it’s probably been abandoned anyway.
1 minute and 14 seconds?
broken Nvidia Optimus free of charge
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.
Unnaproved software installation implies an obligation to provide user support… indefinitely.
The hell it does.
You’ve spent too much time talking to my family.
It also requires that they migrate all of my files and ensure I have full functionality my software and games.
Just type yay in that black window with white text, at least if I would have set it up, not that I did, just if I would have, of course.
Why doesn’t Arch just put yay in the repo?
The arch installing bandit is anonymous. Noone knows how to reach him
Like the guy that installed Windows on your machine without you asking…
That same guy started covertly encrypting users’ data and then the fucking keys stopped working. I’ll take zero support over that.
I head cannon the arch installation bandit as a girl.
wears a fedora, trenchcoat, and thigh high socks in the trans flag colors.
TIL Carmen Sandiago works in IT.
Why is it “head cannon” and not “head canon”? You got some kind of gun strapped to your head that you keep stories in?
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.
Lol this won the Fediverse today.
I head canon head cannons now
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!
Is there an arch alternative for Yuki installs Gentoo?
What if I got Secure Boot with custom keys?
Hit all keys?
Only the any key
Well, of course, the longer it is unattended…
If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable
Yes, the crime of giving them a stable OS that once it is set up keeps working reliably for years to come.
The real hell would be gentoo
No way, at least Gentoo is up to date
not by the time it’s done compiling, it’s not
What about Linux from Scratch?
“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!
What are you talking about? TempleOS isn’t a punishment, it’s a reward
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…
Where do I buy that hat?
Local goodwill
I found a pair of moon boots there once.
That’s baller
Become a Red Hat employee and you get one for free.
(genuinely, I know this sounds like a joke)
You gotta first find Carmen Sandiego to then become Carmen Sandiego.
I’m Mitsubishi
Does Carmen San Diego work there or something?
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.
Good work, gumshoe.
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.
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdaof courseYes I’m familiar with some of these letters
https://rufus.ie/en/ is your friend ;)
Thanks friend, for some reason I couldn’t find this when I was googling “boot Linux from thumb drive”. Much appreciated.
If you use ventoy, you can put multiple ISOs on one USB.
Ventoy is also my choice. You can just add .iso files on your usb disk and they are all bootable. Super easy
RedHat red hat
Just noticed that both Red Hat and Fedora refer to kind of hats.
I have a friend that has one of these.
I saw one on the parcel shelf of a car in the carpark at IKEA once…
Burn that a.i. shit while youre at it
Where do I drop them off?
