i use arch btw

@lunaviktoria
How do you find out if someone uses Arch or Gentoo?

- You wait. They will tell you!

@lunaviktoria I am now tempted to publish an Arch BTW version
@drayde i use arch btw btw
@drayde @lunaviktoria please don't distribute DVDs of it in Men's public bathroom, while the other men are trying to pee.
@lunaviktoria At least they are switching from Windows FFS.

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"oh sweetie, no..."

@lunaviktoria yes, only for paying members of an exclusive club you have to be invited to.
@lunaviktoria now that’s an arch post
@lunaviktoria A post so embarrassing that the poster deleted their account

@usernameswift @lunaviktoria

Could be one of my posts from my reddit era tbqh

Where can I find the btw version of Arch Linux?

I always see people in the Linux community saying they use Arch btw but I couldn't find the the btw version in their website, just regular one. Is...

@lunaviktoria
I dunno how the Arch community finances their stuff, but that would be a very good opportunity to, shall we say, "capitalise" on this by making a "donationware" download portal or similar called "Arch btw" LOL 🀣

Funds raised of course go towards keeping servers running, and paid devs fed / etc.

@aligorith @lunaviktoria You got me curious, so I went to the Archlinux website to see how they keep the lights on. Not surprisingly they have sponsors and take donations, but apparently they also have official merch? I didn't know that. TIL.

- https://www.hellotux.com/arch
- https://www.freewear.org/Archlinux

Edit: And of COURSE they have "i use arch btw" merch πŸ˜†

Arch Linux t-shirts, polo shirts and sweatshirts - HELLOTUX

With our Arch Linux T-shirts, Arch polo shirts and sweatshirts you will show that you like to have the control over your computer.

@aligorith @lunaviktoria Finally. I can use an officially branded Arch Linux towel to wipe off my nerd sweat and spilt coffee when I'm up during late summer nights trying and failing to fix my broken arch system (I broke it, it was me)
@lunaviktoria I have KDE-etc running on my Fedora-btw.

@lunaviktoria

Every distro has a btw version, I use Xubuntu btw.

@hnapel @lunaviktoria Definitely! I myself use MX-Linux btw πŸ˜‚

Now seriously, has any distro named "btw" any of their releases? If not, the race is open!

@lunaviktoria okay, that's the best thing ive seen today 🀣
@lunaviktoria yes, i use arch btw:

b beautiful
t trans
w women
@lumi might be my fav distro
@lunaviktoria aerynos btw
@lumi how is that one? i'm currently on nix and uh, let's just say i'd like to check out the other fish in the immutable sea
@AVincentInSpace it's great! it's a lot simpler than nixos and FHS-compliant, also all the tooling is in rust

they also have a full ban on genai, which is a huge selling point!
@lumi oh you are VERY much selling me on this. i'll have to check it out!
@lunaviktoria the "BTW" means "Better Than Windows".😁
@Talon1024 das ist nicht schwer x3
@lunaviktoria yeah, we're kind of a club.
@lunaviktoria I use Arch btw (bi, trans, wha?)
@lunaviktoria BTW is a K-pop superstar; in that way, said distro is like Justin Bieber or Hannah Montana Linux… but with pacman!

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ah, those young folk, with their tock-ticks and their instant-gram... ;)

@lunaviktoria the arch team has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
@lunaviktoria hahaha. I don't know why delete it πŸ˜„
@lunaviktoria Arch is a so called "rolling release" and has no straight version numbers I think. but I an no professional to say if I am right
@lunaviktoria Closest I can get is a By The Way arch.
@lunaviktoria I use Arch WSL.
But also NixOS BTW.