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    [–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    wait, I KNOW YOU, i've seen you before!!! haiiiii :3

    also, how tf did you take a picture of me?

    haiii :3

    i'll never tell where i got the picture! >:3
    (i can't remember)

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

    THE PIXELS, WHERE ARE THE PIXELS

    [–] naught101@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)
    [–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    there it is. the missing link

    [–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
    [–] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I will not be tempted to distro hop. I'm perfectly content on my flavor of Arch. (ˢ˃’˂ˢ)

    It's possible to modify your current setup, might just take a little time and effort.

    [–] pleb_maximus@piefed.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Shit. On one hand, I don't feel like distro hopping, on the other hand it looks just perfect…

    [–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Tbf, you can totally modify your setup to look like anything. That's the beauty of Arch: cutting-edge and minimal.

    [–] pleb_maximus@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

    Basically I can. But if I do it on my own, it looks like a stitched together Frankensteinian monster.

    [–] esc@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago
    [–] HoloPengin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

    I tried arch as a daily driver many many years ago, it was a great learning experience, but maintaining that system wasn't worth it.

    I use it in distrobox daily though. Rolling distros work really nicely for doing dev work through distrobox on an otherwise immutable system

    [–] tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

    I'm in this post and I love it.

    [–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Gentoo, Guix, Linux From Scratch and Live-Bootstrap enjoyers be like…

    [–] provectus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

    I own my Operating System.

    [–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    We don't care, we are too busy compiling our systems.

    [–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

    Hex0 to Mescc only takes 20 seconds on modern hardware (or 2 minutes on an old Pentium Pro with 512KB of off chip L2)

    [–] Exusia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    This is because the average arch user does not enjoy their experience. The average enjoyer is so far beyond a mere "user" when it comes to self-flaggelation

    [–] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

    For me, Arch "just works"β„’. Rarely when I stumble into an arch-related issue, a quick five minute search is all I need if I don't already know the fix for the issue.

    [–] esc@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Actually most people that stick with arch enjoy it very much. At least among people I know.

    We dont know each other; but I am in that camp. Been using Arch for years. I enjoy it very much so.

    [–] Yttra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I played around with Mint, Fedora, Debian (Raspbian, really) and Zorin casually when I was still a Windows user. Arch was my first daily driver after switching cold turkey some three years ago, and I've been pretty happy with it.

    [–] esc@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

    I did something similar in 2010 barely understanding what am I doing. Feel good about that decision to this day.