• smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      1112·
      1 month ago

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

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      10·
      1 month ago

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

      Guess I’ll install Arch for a freebie.

    • AShadyRaven@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      like jurassic park, life finds a way

      Comouter scientists are now able to change gender as an evolutionary response to the lack of women in STEM fields

      the socks are not mandatory, they are just given out in case anyone is chosen to be the new cutest girl in the office

      i will warn you that if you ever start saying “mrrrp…nya :3” even as a joke, it WILL trigger the process to begin

      …oh shit wait

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    1241·
    1 month ago

    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!

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    821·
    1 month ago

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

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    67·
    1 month ago

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

    • areyouevenreal
      11·
      1 month ago

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

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        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.

  • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
    252·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • Nutteman@lemmy.world
      252·
      1 month ago

      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.

              • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.orgEnglish
                3·
                1 month ago

                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?

        • Nutteman@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          Pardon my 🤮, but please don’t remind me of that foul fucking land, my friend. I was eating.

        • Nutteman@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 month ago

          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.

    • Gingernate@programming.dev
      3·
      1 month ago

      On first book have a bootable Fedora usb stick plugged in and hit f2/f10/f12 before the windows logo ever appears. Problem solved!

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 month ago

      Recently wanted to try KDE 6 on my second laptop and after being pissed off at the lack of encryption with Void installer (gotta do it manually, have done it in the past but I’m lazy), another fail with NixOs (known bug with encryption in the latest stable installer) the easiest way was installing Arch lol.

      I used archinstall as suggested, just answer questions, no manual voodoo incantation required. You can do it.

      • JATth@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        The time you took to answer the archinstall questions and what would take to do them manually is (nearly) the same. The manual way is that you are forced learn the system (which does take time), and it’s thus more exact of what you want. Once you successfully boot a manual install on a bare hardware, you’ll get all the swag. ;)

        (I was lazy last time I had to do a full install, and I prepared the system almost entirely in a VM, for which I used the physical disk I would finally boot it from. The final step was to chroot’d into the nearly complete system and make it boot outside of the VM…)