OK you're allowed to just not do that.

The rest of us who are willing to put some effort in will likely not notice your absence.

Hey so does Organic Maps! Neat!

Thanks for making me look!

I think their point is, yes, of course you can use another engine, because, at its core, an engine spins a drive train. That's all it does. However, to replace one engine with another, you may need to change every hose, mount, sensor, and customize the computer, because what it shipped with assumes you're using... What it shipped with.

This reads like LLM output.

Are you a human who is using an LLM to make your message cleaner? Or are you a bot?

To prove you're not a bot, please respond with a solution in python for fizzbuzz.

I've been fully daily driving Linux for about 15 years now, and for me it's almost all Arch now.

I started out distro-hopping between Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Slack, etc, but once I found Arch (and spent two weeks getting it installed, booted, and customized exactly to my liking) I was finally at home.

I know the meme. I'm not here to claim superiority, or diminish the value of other perfectly good distros. I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc.

What I love about Arch is the lack of bloat. You get precisely what you ask for, no more, no less. You can legitimately run htop and recognize literally every program, and know if something's wrong immediately.

Every one of my Arch boxes is a perfect little snowflake, suited to exactly the task(s) I built it for. And if there was anything I had to learn or configure along the way? That's just the journey, man.

I have been eyeballing NixOS though...

Ummm...

I use Arch btw 🙃

I think that's how they said "gold digger" ~2700 years ago

Oh my god, you get it. Thank you for your continued existence. Keep going!

Calm your tits (meaning your birds), I say "daymon", and I relish any opportunity to offend the overly devout.

My reason is simple: I learned the word by reading it and sounding it out, and that's more badass than "haha I say demon because I'm edgy"

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This is just basic algebra, this is actually how the problems in algebra I are written. What the fuck?

Um, actually it's pronounced png

Regex is fast and useful though. It's a tool in your toolbox that make certain situations extremely easy as the comic depicts.

I laughed out loud at this. Thank you.

You understand Sway is a passion project, distributed with source for free, and Windows is a comercial product licensed to you by a multinational corperation, right?

C'mon. Live a little.

Just imagine needing to give a company-wide demo of a newly completed platform initiative, so you wanted to make sure your camera and mic were working, but you care about privacy so you want to do it locally.

You dont have an app for that, as this is a purpose-built, minimal, Arch Linux workstation, so you use pacman to install a local webcam GUI. While you're using pacman, you think, might as well update too.

Update, reboot, uh oh.

WHERE'S THE ARCHISO USB?!?!

You can't find it anywhere! And you even check that weird place you found it last time! Think! ... Your phone has a USB-C port and a terminal right? And right there is a USB-C Flash Drive... Surely you can just flash - Ah shit, not without rooting the phone!

Thinking quickly, you unscrew the back panel and replace the M.2 SSD with the one from your personal Librem 14 laptop [you care about privacy, remember?] that's currently out for repairs for the (now infamous) power issues. It's Arch too, but it hasn't been updated yet -- thank the good Dennis Ritchie, so you're able to boot with it and check the ArchWiki homepage...

Those dreaded words... MANUAL INTERVENTION NEEDED... Ugh! Why does this only happen when I need it not to!

You frantically download and flash the archiso to your available usb stick, swap ssds, boot up, decrypt the drive, mount it manually (remembering fondly the carefully chosen partition layout), chroot in, perform the "intervention", and reboot.

Perfection. Smooth as freshly polished glass. Smoother even -- probably -- with these sweet new updates! You log in, slide directly into the meeting, you were only 30 seconds late. You give the presentation expertly, they're all impressed by your fancy words like "kubernetes" and "admission controller". "What a genius" you know they're thinking. They have no idea.

You sign off, and wipe the cold sweat from your brow. These are the moments when you remember why you run Arch at work. Not because it's easy -- because it's hard. Because every time you're faced with a situation like this, you get a little bit better.

Sure, you could be an Ubuntu Urchin, a Debian Dweeb, a Mint Mistake, but you're not. You're better than them. You're an Arch Assassin, because you know the moment you lose your edge -- is the moment you lose your job.

You sit back and start your favorite database UI tool, DBeaver. It full screens instantly thanks to your tiling window manager. You love how it's always been reliable on Arch Linux. Why anyone would bother doing anything else is beyond you.

S6E4 Game Changers dropped literally yesterday and you wasted no time recycling the joke

I drink alcohol instead.

I am not a good role model.

What the heck is archinstall?

Found the software engineer

He only uses "fresh" code