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    [–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Does this get posted every day now?

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    24 more times to go.

    [–] the_beber@feddit.org 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] mecen@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

    Green arch NO2 is the way

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Just dropping a formatted link: !endeavouros@lemmy.zip And I'll see ya'll there. :)

    EDIT: Also, would it be possible to get a bot to post the official EndeavourOS news? I mean, we all already read the RSS, but just in case someone doesn't. ;)

    [–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That’s a great idea. I’m new here so not 100% on how to spin up a bot; but will look into it

    [–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Hey, we have a mod tools page where you can manage your communities including setting up RSS feeds! https://modtools.lemmy.zip/

    Give me a message if you need a hand using it :)

    [–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

    Oh most perfect! ty Rick !

    [–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Done! New updates from Endeavour are now bot posted

    [–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

    Damn that was fast! You're awesome.

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    [–] ignotum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    I used endeavourOS btw

    I use arch btw

    [–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    still use the arch wiki. I'm on nixos btw

    [–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    I'm on Ubuntu and I user Archwiki sometimes

    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago

    I don't use Arch, BTW.

    [–] fdnomad@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago

    I'll be honest, all of the Arch memes I've been seeing lately feel like reposts from 5-10 years ago

    [–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Where did this stereotype actually come from? I'm genuinely curious. Because Windows users wouldn't know Arch from Ubuntu and to them, all Linux users are "I use Linux btw" types. And I don't think I've seen Arch users just randomly telling people they use Arch in Linux spaces. But it must've come from somewhere.

    [–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

    I heard someone explain that it wasn't really that popular some time ago, so they would just say "I use arch btw" to get people to know the distro and apparently it worked

    Or it's just bullshit and i'il never know

    [–] ratel@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    IDK if it's a thing elsewhere but it's been a running joke on Reddit and Lemmy for years mostly because Arch was the more popular, bare bones distro, i.e. you had to set it up yourself without a guided installer like Mint or Ubuntu, so was used as a signal to be like "I know what I'm talking about".

    [–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Ah that definitely makes sense. I think by the time I was experimenting with distros, things had probably moved on a bit. I can say from experience that using Arch just requires the ability to read, really. But it was probably more hardcore in its earlier days when the wiki wasn't as well formed yet.

    [–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

    Yeah, much of the documentation on the arch wiki was written by enthusiasts who did the legwork and drew maps along the way so we now know where to go.

    [–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

    I know this one: It came from the Arch users. No, really, they couldn't just help to not tell anyone. It's not just a stereotype, it was really that common.

    Now why they couldn't help, is guessing, but I guess it is the first distribution, that people take pride in to install, after they tried Ubuntu.

    Arch was the "elite" distro. Most people who weren't already very comfortable with the terminal were even able to use arch properly. Stuff like archinstall didn't exist back then and those that did were way inferior than what we have today. So using arch was like a "badge of honor" of sorts for many people who thought using it made them superior to disgusting ubuntu or mint users with their GUI installer.

    It's just classic gatekeeping that you'll see in basically everything that comes with a passionate community.

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I use Linux btw.

    I don't really promote nixos unless it's for comedic purposes

    [–] TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I use Gentoo. I very much warn you against using Gentoo.

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Same for nix. It's great and awesome, but you need to know that for 6months it will be pain.

    [–] pech@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Using NixOS was when I finally felt like I started to understand Linux. I don't think I could go back lol

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I already knew Linux. What it made me learn is systemd. And I'll say it without shame, I like systemd. I know it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy but it's just semantics.

    [–] pech@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

    honestly, systemd isn't that bad. I'm finishing some free labs for the CompTIA Linux+ sysadmin course and learning how to compose bash scripts into services is going to be great for my homelab.

    I completely ditched windows at home in early 2020 and used fedora until last year when I took the plunge into NixOS. I knew how to do things in Linux, but I wanted to understand the underlying system structure. NixOS helped pull back the veil a bit.

    [–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

    I know it doesn't follow the Unix philosophy

    For me, it falls into the pragmatic gap between idealism and usability. Is it perfect? Most certainly not. Does it serve a good portion of use cases? Apparently. Does it work as a more-or-less de facto standard to provide a common platform for other things to build on? Evidently.

    If we could codify the resulting standards and assumptions and create a more modular ecosystem to plug that same gap, that would still be a lot of work, and at some point, most people just wanna build the damn house instead of overengineering the foundation.

    Perfect is the enemy of good, and systemd has to be good enough.

    Both NixOS and Gentoo are also addictive as hell, you poke just a couple of things β€” the next thing you know it's 3 AM two weeks later and you are recompiling your whole system trying to make it work with Wild linker or something along those lines, laughing maniacally.

    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile in Debianland....

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

    Just do it ironically and talk about what an old geezer you are

    [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

    I use the red swirl too btw

    [–] paw@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

    So true. I use arch btw. And now I have a nice hand of cards ;)

    [–] farvascw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    I prefer the original CachyOS, Manjaro (might change, if stuff gets really bad on my own end).

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Tried. Nice place, but i won't live in it.

    [–] farvascw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

    That's cool, everybody has their preferences

    [–] northertech@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

    Just made it through a technical interview without managing to say that I use Arch, btw. It is harder than you think.

    [–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    What kind of a card game is UNO and why is drawing 25 bad?

    [–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Winning the game is accomplished by playing all your cards and being the first to run out of cards. You play a card by putting one down that matches the last card played by either color or number. There's other special cards too, like draw x cards, reverse direction, wild cards, etc.

    Ah, so in this situation, you are asked to draw 25 new cards, virtually making you lose. 🀣

    [–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    You have to get rid of the cards

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    [–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

    Shouldn't that be "draw 1" πŸ˜‹

    [–] jjj@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

    Selection bias left the chat and apparently ceased to exist as a result.

    [–] distal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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