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    [–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)
    [–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Let me put it to you this way.

    Elon Musk fanboys, now running arch.

    Just.... Let that simmer for a minute.

    [–] barsquid@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Anyone smart enough to run Arch is smart enough to recognize Elon is an imbecile.

    [–] cori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

    But do you recognize Musk as an imbecile? If you do you're smarter than you think.

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

    [–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months 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.

    [–] olutukko@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months 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.

    [–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

    NixOs has entered the chat

    [–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)
    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

    Well, he at least invented X11...

    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 4 months ago

    Popularize among his follower base and make it cringe to use Linux