You know, I’m kinda surprised there isn’t a Maid IT service out there somewhere. You’re telling me I can fix computers all day AND dress in a maid outfit? sign me up!
having worn gloves like that, if i were to work on a computer wearing them that would be the first time i’d actually bother using an electrostatic bracelette
Would they? Arch users strike me as coming in two flavors.
Competent users who have a significant amount of IT knowledge, that happen to enjoy an incredibly lightweight Linux distro which is fully configurable. This group is akin to a racecar driver with a project car in their garage.
Random people who lack basic knowledge but drink whatever Kool aid they’re given, and just happened to fall into a FOSS community where that Kool aid was Linux. They install Arch because someone said it’s the best, and their ability to do so gives them an air of superiority and the belief that they’re competent like group 1. This group is more like a teenager with a KIA, who believes their glued-on hood scoop gives them more horsepower.
Due to social media the second group far outpaces the first. So I’d wager most of them don’t even know what the acronym ESD stands for, let alone how grounding works in basic electrical theory.
you forgot about the part of the arch community where we forcibly require arch users to manually install arch linux. You don’t just wake up and accidentally install arch linux manually, you have to know what you’re doing, even if being a bumbling idiot during the process, you’re still doing it the hard way.
Jokes aside, arch by nature is more tempting to “real linux users” the average “i use linux kid” is going to use kali or something.
I didn’t say group 2 did it accidentally, I said they pretend that the specific skillset required to install Arch via terminal somehow means they’re certified professional IT.
All you know is how to use a CLI specifically with Linux syntax, that’s a good start but it’s somewhat like pretending you’re a mechanic because you know how to change a tire.
i meant accidentally as hyperbole. The point being if you managed to install arch manually that you had some level of knowledge. Or at least gained it through the experience.
I’d say it’s more like pretending you’re a mechanic while having a fairly comprehensive understanding of how cars work. The difference here is the environment, and the experience. You aren’t gonna become an IT professional unless you’ve had years in the industry or “certification” anyway. But you can certainly roll your own maintenance if you tried.
That is also downplaying a manual install of arch quite a bit, but that’s beyond the point.
Yeah, do agree. Grounding your wrists has been pretty much obsolte for the past 20 years or so. In the 80’s, 90’s, yeah, it was preferable that you’re grounded.
Give NixOS a try. Imagine never even having the risk of a broken system ever again. Never getting stuck in the TTY because some update bricked to your shit. It’s a nice life on Nix.
I don’t like the nix package manager it updates too slowly, and though a config file for everything is a neat idea, i found that it was kind of clunky for use on a desktop, so i’m back on void (which tbf has way less packages than arch or nix but xbps has everything i personally need)
Idk, I like NixOS but it’s not problem-free and the worst part about it is that for some problems you won’t have much luck finding help in many places and on top of that the documentation isn’t the greatest. That said I have found less very serious issues, but also because I haven’t messed with it as much as Arch.
Are you willing to take a list of my requirements and giving me a functional set of nix / homemanager / flake files that fullfill those requirements? (It’s a long and very particular list) I’ll even pay you 150$ if you can manage to fulfill 100% of the must haves and over 80% of the want haves.
Because last time I tried it took over a week, was buggy (thus compromising about a quarter of the must have requirements) and provided no visible benefit over my current archlinux with a set of custom packages for dotfiles, config backups and bootable btrfs snapshots from my personal experience.
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