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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 194 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I never had that problem.

I could not reproduce. (⌐■_■)

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 158 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

But then they won't be able to use arch.

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried switching your long socks, and wearing your choker?

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

How do you think they lost their virginity?

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thocks work better than long socks.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well, that's it. There's no coming back from this. You have to install Mint now.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the compatible socks!

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What kind of socks do you need for Linux Mint? Are any mint green ok?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I prefer mint/blue or mint/chocolate, but I'm mostly doing network coding and light gaming so YMMV.

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm tech illiterate- is mint Linux for people who aren't masochists?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yes. It's easy to install and easy to use. Perfect to get started with Linux.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

3935 is the latest issue, so we have to wait a bit

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago

You just need to edit virginity.conf in the virginity.d directory.

I used to have sex, like 25 years ago, when I used Windows.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Oh so that's why I couldn't get it to work on fresh install. Thought I was just stupid.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 10 points 5 months ago

Replace virginity with systemd then reboot Arch.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago

When people ask me why I haven't switch to Linux yet, this is why. I'm too much of a stud 😔

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Graduated pacman emerges... and we all know emerge is Gentoo. This one doesn't compile.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago

We lost another virgin warrior. 😔😢

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

That is not a problem to me because I never lose. Not even my virginity.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Is the fact that SteamOS is based on Arch going to change this such that prior Arch users must now suffer through Gentoo or will they stay the same, considering the proprietary inclusions of SteamOS to be enough to exclude it from the fold?

[–] tux7350@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Excuse me have you heard about our lord and savior, NixOS?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 5 months ago

I doubt most of them could stick with the Gentoo installation procedure for long enough to make it to a usable system.

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Compiling answer...

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

incorrect, arch users are by far the sluttiest linux enthusiasts

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 months ago

Rookie move

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Me too, Gentoo is the best.

[–] rhpp@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/3936

P.S.: This issue was not submitted by me, it just happened to be the latest submitted issue at the time of this post.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No.

A joke like this is funny once. The screenshot in the OP can be reshared endlessly (whether it's real or not), and anyone trying to make another iteration of this joke is just spamming the project with useless noise. It makes work for maintainers.

Fortunately it seems like this hasn't been a problem in this particular repository, unlike the Linux repository which received endless spam before GH gave them the tools to block it. But if this becomes a trend, Arch might need to deal with dozens of joke issues per week, and there's just nothing funny about that.

Edit: just confirmed that the OP screenshot is fake, which is good. (Issue #4269 doesn't exist yet and the number itself is two memes.)

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Woah, I wasn't prepared for that. I understand now why the FSF close their doors to unvetted outside contributors, if this is what github has become

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

To be fair, Linux isn't developed on GitHub (it's developed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List and kernel.org) and most of the spammers knew that going into it. The PRs on that repo were mostly just people trolling any bystanders that took it seriously until the internet did what they do best and took the joke too far.

In this specific example they didn't waste anyone's time or resources because it was never being used or monitored in the first place.

Edit for more additional context: Linus (who created git in the first place) mentioned not liking centralized git servers so he's specifically said for multiple years that he never considered actually moving development over to something like GitHub

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah...

I wouldn't say this is "what GitHub has become" per se, only a handful of unlucky projects need to deal with PR/issue spam. What @Zangoose@lemmy.world said is right, the Linux PR spam is largely inconsequential because GitHub PRs (or issues) were never accepted in the first place.

But then there Express.js, which receives loads of useless PRs because some terrible YouTube tutorials show kids how to make baby's first GitHub pull request: https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+Readme.md So in a way this is what GitHub has become. This and the inescapable AI crap.