• R0cket_M00se
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    10 months ago

    Would they? Arch users strike me as coming in two flavors.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

      Grounding moves the magic smoke from one component to another, preferably, to one you don’t own.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          110 months ago

          Of course, but you wanna move it to another location, like your pesky neighbour’s computer.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        310 months ago

        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.

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        110 months ago

        There was a day, when I woke up and accidentily installed Gentoo. It is so sticky, still running on my PCs since more than 15 years.