• cori <3 (she/her)
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      5426 days ago

      As a complete idiot who uses arch on her main PC, I can attest that you don’t have to be particularly smart to use it.

      • @0x4E4FOP
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        25 days ago

        Take it from me, people who openly say they’re idiots usually aren’t. Socrates: I now know I know nothing.

    • @[email protected]
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      625 days ago

      Maybe nowadays, with Elon’s imbecility so publicly visible.

      I’ve run Arch for close to 10 years, and was pretty jazzed by Musk in the early days of his presiding over Tesla and Space X. Then again, I was barely an adult at the time, and I hadn’t yet come across the first reports of terrible working conditions and his overall shittyness as a manager/exec.

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        1125 days ago

        A lot of people forget how overwhelmingly, insanely popular Musk was with way too online nerds. He was reddit’s golden child for years. Part of this is that whenever Disney started releasing the Marvel movies, beginning with Iron Man, Musk was front and center as the core inspiration for Tony Stark (yes, I’m serious, the director and Robert Downey Jr. basically went on record as saying as much) and he fucking milked that shit. It’s also important to understand that for a time he was seen as a forward looking entrepreneur whose business was “going to help save the planet by making electric cars so popular that every car manufacturer would switch to electric vehicle production to keep up.” If Musk was a genius at one thing, it was manipulating public perception of himself and his enterprises. It took years of him being a thin-skinned weirdo and massive corporate tool to undo the amount of positive sentiment he’d built for himself and Tesla.

    • @[email protected]
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      625 days ago

      you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.

      to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.