And the ones who install Arch on a MacBook need extra special therapy.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
If you look at the usernames that picture is actually OC.
about the username…
d3Et3r?
i have no words
I didn’t even look at the picture lol
I just remembered it because it has twenty-nine minutes uptime.
What kind of scrub runs Arch with a kernel that’s been compiled twenty-nine minutes ago?
That shit needs to be updated!
☺️i love my arch on my macbookpro from 2009 😂
Was difficult to understand that I have to boot via legacy bios in order for the nvidia grafic to work… But after installing grub2 via CDrom I had i done ✅ now I can boot any iso from using grub2 and don’t have to relay on CD rom anymore 🥳 Next will be a 2013 MacBookPro (with nvidia as well), as soon as my motor buys her m3 MacBookPro
This reads like a copypasta
just cause they use emojis?
I mean, tone does have to do with how you use a language 🗣️ and symbols to communicate, and the emojis in the middle ➡️❎⬅️ of sentences and how many there are in relation to the amount of sentences 💬 do make it kind of read like a copypasta ©️🍝
allowing emojis on the internet was a fucking mistake ngl.
What if i have Arch on my Desktop and Linux Mint on my MacBook?
Endeavour on my desktop, and Fedora Silverblue on my MacBook - good combination!
Then they put on the socks and become girls
The amount of time and effort needed to go through an Arch installation and succeeding probably is more therapeutic than paying $100 for a session of therapy. It’s enough to make them finally come out after all 🤷
Legit I brought my first thigh highs and my T430s (now quite modded) within like 2 weeks of each other.
Who needs therapy when you have pacman?
And yay
And paru
ILoveCandy
I tried buying a used thinkpad and putting Linux on it, but then it stopped charging correctly after 2 weeks. So I went back on adhd meds and got a new job and turned my life around.
By turn your life around you mean bought a new Think pad and put Arch on it, right?
The ol’ 360 life turnaround
Honestly I thought I was doing good for my technical knowledge by playing with Linux and it has helped but there comes a point where I hit a plateau with that and now I just end up endlessly tweaking and just wasting time on it
I enjoy this activity too as a non binary person
Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?
Except even Gentoo does binaries now (more than they used to).
LFS?
While you were out chasing booty, I studied the bootloader. While you were partying, I mastered the fstab
I got it
I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM buys 3 more Thinkpads on eBay
I can stop whenever I want. Buys a pallet of busted Thinkpad.
Moar leik chrome books
You should try gentoo as a therapy replacement next. It’s basically the adult version of maintaining a long running Animal Crossing save.
Every morning I wake up, grab a coffee and update my system @world. Almost every day it goes without a hitch and I watch the system evaluate and resolve any incongruities that might emerge from updates by itself. Other times I might need to make a intervention in the dependencies to guide it to a resolution; but it’s a small nudge in the right direction, like tweaking a miniature ship inside a bottle.
This is partially tongue in cheek but I unironically get a lot of joy out of administrating my PC: Having it completely customized and working exactly like I need it to.
Gentoo: the Tamagotchi Penguin
Well, you do have to feed, er, update it at least every six months if you don’t want to be left with an unholy mess to clean up.
I’d advise every week, within six months a lot has changed and you may end up with messed-up inconsistencies.
Six months is the max that’s supposed to be supported. (Longest no-update period I’ve ever sorted out was twelve months. Possible, but time-consuming.)
Fucking amateur. Linux from scratch
USE flags are so addictive…
Can confirm
(throw all those neofetches at me)Does this still count?
(yes sir)
when you stop hating yourself
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Fetch is fetch
I use a custom script to give me what I need
Yeah because all we really need is something to focus our rage at.
Focus the rage at something that is fixable. Good idea actually.
i ironically think than i can better handle stress than my other friends because of grub breaking my sister’s laptop(dual boot) at the worses moments possible, i learned to force me to stay calm to search and read correctly how fix grub before she realized
Arch users
LinuxFromScratch users
Looks at M2 macbook running NixOS
Ok maybe I do need help.
Someone was saying in a linux hate post yesterday that linux is not viable for beginners because it is not easy to install arch linux on a vm on their old macbook. Lmao
My kid (not even a teenager) uses Linux daily. And not in a coy “he’s using a chromebook” way. He’s using full-blown NixOS on a laptop I set up for him. Could he have set it up? No, but he’s a child. Has day to day use presented him with any difficulties whatsoever? Nope. He figured out gnome purely by instinct in a day. He goes between macos and windows and linux effortlessly, because he’s a reasonably intelligent human being.
But, yes, half the time the “linux is hard” crowd seem to be basing their evaluation on things you would rarely do on a mac or windows machine. These days, install Mint, Fedora, or, hell, even Nixos or Endeavor, choose the defaults, and you will very likely have a perfectly usable, intuitive system.
A real linux installation or darwin-nix? If the former, what steps did you follow? 👀
The real thing. https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/
I wouldn’t say it’s something anyone can do (no graphical installer and updating is a bit manual) and it’s all dependent on the Asahi folks, bless them, but it took me about 20 minutes, other than whipping up a machine-specific configuration.nix and home.nix (about 20 more minutes on either side of the installation). All of the instructions were clear, though I will warn that some of them are not well presented in that there are instructions that should be bullet points that are stuffed into paragraphs. Nothing remotely exotic though–that’s all in the Asahi stuff that is wonderfully hidden from the view.
the aliens watching me for entertainment: oh no, he has installed gentoo and qubes, he is too far gone
My right index finger still has an indent from using the clit-mouse to play Starcraft on a Thinkpad 25 years ago.
Fuck that’s relatable I bought one like 4 days ago and it just arrived :'D
Congrats! What model ?
T470p i5-7300hq
It was sold as a t470 i5-7300u buut the PC itself had 470p written on it and the chip I saw when swapping the thermal paste matches the i5-7300hq
Nice, x240 owner here
Cool just testedthre laptop and it boots w.out issues
Its got lan issues :`C the driver isn’t functioning :(