I've seen this, here is when you point at a random key and tell them that the "any" key is that one.
Back then when using a computer at work was still rather uncommon you could tell them it was the K and some used that key for years.

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zurohki 12 points 15 days ago

Legend has it that they moved to "Press a key to continue" because then people would just press A, which would work.

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NoSpotOfGround 13 points 15 days ago

Oh god, I only have an upper case A key, where the a key?

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dangling_cat 7 points 15 days ago

Press the power button

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Valmond 2 points 14 days ago

Presses ESC, then the power button.

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cypherpunks 131 points 15 days ago

i don't recommend Arch smh

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Klear 96 points 15 days ago

I never liked Arch tbh

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cypherpunks 70 points 15 days ago

Many people do seem to like Arch fwiw

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18107 39 points 15 days ago

At least Windows appears user friendly. Arch otoh is quite hard to set up the first time.

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Pat_Riot 47 points 15 days ago

I mean, does anyone even use Arch irl?

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eruchitanda 7 points 15 days ago

Not really. You can use archinstall. And the guide is quite clear; I'd say it's more time consuming the first time than actually hard.

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Junkers_Klunker 3 points 15 days ago

I like it, but it certainly isn’t for everyone.

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judgyweevil 17 points 15 days ago

So what, it's different from Arch smh

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bridgeburner 14 points 15 days ago

Am I the only one who reads smh as 'somehow'? I know it stands for shake my head, but in my mind it always expands to 'somehow'. Am I weird?

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cypherpunks 9 points 15 days ago

sydney morning herald my head

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adam_y 6 points 15 days ago

I just read it as a phonetic noise, not unlike "smeh".

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points 15 days ago

dammit i've watched that 20 times and smeh is starting to not look like a word now

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Eat_Your_Paisley 6 points 15 days ago

I thought it meant "something" until I used it with my wife and was corrected

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swab148 2 points 15 days ago

I thought it was "so much hate" for many years, before I finally looked it up

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 15 days ago

no as of right of this moment i started reading it as Shaking My How

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xylol 2 points 15 days ago

Its actually 'smack my hand', as in give me a high five. I use Arch smack my hand

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testaccount789 117 points 15 days ago

This might have actually happened.
When I first got a computer I had to put some OS on it. I've heard of this thing called Linux, and found about distributions. BUT, "flavors of Linux" was a terrible description.
I wanted the original.
Just pure Linux, nothing else. No Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, no, just pure Linux and nothing else than Linux.

I kept searching for that for quite a while. Kernel? I didn't even know what a partition was.

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justme 18 points 15 days ago

i guess that is a problem of many open source projects, in particular when they define a standard so that there are different apps with a variety of names. e.g. the server implementation of mumble used to be called murmur, or the "mainstream" client of matrix is element.

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schipelblorp 9 points 15 days ago

And I guess that's the opposite problem that for-profit products have, so desperate to maximize every marketing dollar that every fucking thing has the same name in it even if it's a fundamentally different product.

Microsoft Outlook is the poster child of this in the software space.

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swab148 7 points 15 days ago

Not one of the 80 different Copilots?

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schipelblorp 6 points 15 days ago

I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.

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justme 1 point 14 days ago

yeah, that's like the constant rebooting of movies instead of coming up with something new ;)

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NeilNuggetstrong 13 points 15 days ago

Lol yeah I can see how that can be confusing. I was introduced to Ubuntu early as a student through lab PCs, so I just assumed people just said linux, when they meant Ubuntu Linux. Nowadays I use Arch btw

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JustAnotherKay 4 points 15 days ago

I had a similar but different experience. My first in-person introduction to Linux was Ubuntu via some training for a job. When the class referred to it as Linux, our instructor would tell us “Technically it’s Ubuntu, not Linux” so I thought Ubuntu was an entirely separate OS that I had just never heard of before

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ivanafterall 1 point 15 days ago

Btw! How has your experience with it been!?

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NeilNuggetstrong 3 points 15 days ago

I really like it so far. Using it on my laptop as a learning experience. Won't be the end of the world if I seriously mess it up or something breaks. Got timeshift installed and have all dotfiles backed up with etckeeper and chezmoi. Also have a list of packages backed up, so I'm feeling confident I can readily set it up again from scratch if need be

I still use bazzite on my gaming PC since I need it to just work and just launch my games, but that might change as I get more experienced.

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ranzispa 6 points 15 days ago

I LOVE the idea of flavours. I always add a bit of Linux mint to my rum distribution for a good Linux mojito.

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john_lemmy 2 points 14 days ago

Makes sense. "Everyone" knows a lot about windows' jargon and UX due to its prominence in education, work and consumer market (turns out for-profit corpos have a bunch of money to throw around). I wish I knew about Linux when I was much younger :(

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TheGiantKorean 66 points 15 days ago

Please someone create a BTW fork of Arch. Then people can say "I use Arch BTW BTW"

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Bubs12 33 points 15 days ago

I’m shocked it hasn’t been done already.

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MrChewy 17 points 15 days ago

There is a "I use arch btw" programming language though...

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zane 7 points 14 days ago

Rust?

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NeatNit 5 points 14 days ago

No, they meant that literally https://esolangs.org/wiki/I_use_Arch_btw

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Fizz 47 points 15 days ago

Reddit post and [Deleted] user name a more iconic duo

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bless 44 points 15 days ago

Donald and Jeffrey

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TabbsTheBat 39 points 15 days ago

Gotta sudo pacman -S btw to get the btw packages

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NeatNit 23 points 15 days ago

I'm actually disappointed this isn't a real package. https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=btw

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TabbsTheBat 15 points 15 days ago

I know right? I also checked earlier, I was like.. at least 40% sure that there probably was some weird niche utility with that acronym, but evidently not :3

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Shatur 5 points 15 days ago

There is this one: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/buildbtw/

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amlor 12 points 15 days ago

alias btw=fastfetch

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horn_e4_beaver 28 points 14 days ago

I'm waiting for the Arch LTS edition.

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diegantobass 22 points 15 days ago

Wow, I kinda need to update... I've been stuck on outdated Arch afaik

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grandel 19 points 15 days ago

I use Arch btw btw

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germanatlas 17 points 15 days ago

It is the transfem version of arch (boy to woman)

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Hazel 11 points 15 days ago

Not to be confused with Arch Bitch to Witch.

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UnderpantsWeevil 11 points 15 days ago

Arch is a practical joke played on Linux users that got completely out of hand

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ChaoticNeutralCzech 10 points 15 days ago

Someone should add -b, -t and -w flags to the Archinstall script

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festnt 2 points 15 days ago

or --btw

it should install nothing but the least installed package in pacman

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pineapplelover 9 points 15 days ago

Has to be shitpost right?

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parricc 4 points 14 days ago

Of course, but someone should keep it going anyway by making an actual fork of arch called arch btw.

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spitfire 9 points 14 days ago

I don’t use Arch BTW

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alice_gosta_de_doces 8 points 15 days ago

I use arch BMW

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Diplomjodler3 7 points 15 days ago

You need at least 10000000 good boy points for that one.

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sinextitan 6 points 15 days ago

it's the only thing that comes pre-bundled w Arch (btw) and you can't get rid of it.

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ZILtoid1991 6 points 15 days ago

Someone needs to make an install script that just does that!

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LovableSidekick 6 points 14 days ago

I don't use Arch tbh, or Arche afaik.

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some_kind_of_guy 1 point 14 days ago

I fucking love Arch IMO

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rustydrd 3 points 15 days ago

Ever since the rsync debacle, I'm afraid of updating my installation of Arch lmao

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eruchitanda 2 points 15 days ago

Arch BTW BTW.

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LuigiLafontaine 1 point 5 days ago

I use Arch btw.

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neclimdul 1 point 15 days ago

Oh I found it... btw 😂

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