free license key included

But are the thigh high socks provided or must I purchase them separately?
- You'll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised
  
  TIL that unix socks are actually a parasitic lifeform, transmitted via arch isos.
  
  Installing Arch makes you a Femboy?
- I really want one of those pairs, for my knees get cold in winters.
  Guess I'll install Arch for a freebie.
- like jurassic park, life finds a way
  Comouter scientists are now able to change gender as an evolutionary response to the lack of women in STEM fields
  the socks are not mandatory, they are just given out in case anyone is chosen to be the new cutest girl in the office
  i will warn you that if you ever start saying "mrrrp...nya :3" even as a joke, it WILL trigger the process to begin
  .......oh shit wait

Ordinarily I would be fine with this. I use Arch anyway. But an Arch system configured by somebody else? I'd be safer leaving my laptop at home!
- I think that's the idea - I love how this is a double entendre for those that know....

If a laptop is left unattended long enough to do a fresh Arch install, it's probably been abandoned anyway.
- 1 minute and 14 seconds?
  https://youtu.be/8utpbbdj0LQ

Unnaproved software installation implies an obligation to provide user support... indefinitely.
- The arch installing bandit is anonymous. Noone knows how to reach him
  
  Like the guy that installed Windows on your machine without you asking...
  
  I head cannon the arch installation bandit as a girl.
- The hell it does.
  You've spent too much time talking to my family.
- It also requires that they migrate all of my files and ensure I have full functionality my software and games.
- Just type yay in that black window with white text, at least if I would have set it up, not that I did, just if I would have, of course.
  
  Why doesn’t Arch just put yay in the repo?

RedHat red hat
- I have a friend that has one of these.
  
  I saw one on the parcel shelf of a car in the carpark at IKEA once...
- Just noticed that both Red Hat and Fedora refer to kind of hats.

If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable
- Yes, the crime of giving them a stable OS that once it is set up keeps working reliably for years to come.
- The real hell would be gentoo
  
  No way, at least Gentoo is up to date
- "Punish"? See how they react when they boot into TempleOS.
  Oh, only Linux? There's always Hannah Montana or North Korea Linux...but that'd be giving a foreign dictatorship a botnet node...
  In which case I was gonna say "Well an NSA-friendly OS would be funny" but then we're just back to Windows!
  
  What are you talking about? TempleOS isn't a punishment, it's a reward

Does Carmen San Diego work there or something?
- Its redhat, nyuk nyuk nyuk. https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux
  Or maybe Carmen is a Linux user idk i just work here man.
  
  Good work, gumshoe.

broken Nvidia Optimus free of charge
- Afaik Nvidia Optimus works fine on arch if setup following the wiki. It's mainly other distros that have Nvidia problems.
  
  Exactly, while RTFM I haven’t have a single issue (apart from the driver quirks itself) and even automated the driver patching for NvFBC. Usual error is using nvidia-dkms and not setting up proper hook to rebuild the kernel module on kernel updates.

Easy. Buy a new laptop, let them upgrade from w•ndows to arch, then dump arch for something like MX or whatever else I use in the future. Then I wouldn't have to touch the default w•ndows installation forced into me.
- Look, windows is bad, but we should reserve asterisks for actually bad things that require censoring in all circumstances, such as Brtsh or nglsh.
  
  Using two asterisks makes things italic. You can only use one
  
  Not to be confused with the "🤮" Emoji, which is reserved for the word "fr🤮nch"
  
  What's wrong with being British?
- On first book have a bootable Fedora usb stick plugged in and hit f2/f10/f12 before the windows logo ever appears. Problem solved!

Fedora hat checks out
- You mean that "Red Hat"?
  
  Whatever that lady repellant is
- I thought we found Carmen Sandiego.

Kinda wish someone would do this to me, because I'm never going to balls to do it myself
- archinstall and wiki. Its easy if you've got nothing to prove.
- distrobox create fakearch --image arch
- Recently wanted to try KDE 6 on my second laptop and after being pissed off at the lack of encryption with Void installer (gotta do it manually, have done it in the past but I'm lazy), another fail with NixOs (known bug with encryption in the latest stable installer) the easiest way was installing Arch lol.
  I used archinstall as suggested, just answer questions, no manual voodoo incantation required. You can do it.
  
  Btw Plasma 6 is glorious. First time Wayland "just works" without me noticing too.
  
  The time you took to answer the archinstall questions and what would take to do them manually is (nearly) the same. The manual way is that you are forced learn the system (which does take time), and it's thus more exact of what you want. Once you successfully boot a manual install on a bare hardware, you'll get all the swag. ;)
  (I was lazy last time I had to do a full install, and I prepared the system almost entirely in a VM, for which I used the physical disk I would finally boot it from. The final step was to chroot'd into the nearly complete system and make it boot outside of the VM...)
- It's super easy bro trust me bro just the tip bro

What if I got Secure Boot with custom keys?
- Hit all keys?
  
  Only the any key
  
  Well, of course, the longer it is unattended...

Where do I buy that hat?
- You gotta first find Carmen Sandiego to then become Carmen Sandiego.
  
  I'm Mitsubishi
- Local goodwill
  
  I found a pair of moon boots there once.
- Become a Red Hat employee and you get one for free.
  (genuinely, I know this sounds like a joke)

Where do I drop them off?

As long as you install and setup a DE for me!

I actually don't get the fuzz/meme about Arch Linux. Yes, the installer drops you into a shell where you need to fix the keyboard layout for starters and the next thing is preparing enough disk resources for the OS which is somehow ungodly hard. My point is that if you can't then you are not qualified to maintain the installation, or actually RTFM and start to fr think what you do.
- I love gatekeeping Linux distros
  
  Why would learning be gatekeeping? I wish I could just teach my secrets... The manuals are only a shallow guide to knowledge. E.g. ls, has condensed for me to ls -laR mostly, and that ls<tab> usually gives tools that list something. ch<tab> gives tools to "change something", like chmod. mk<tab> to "create something" mkdir etc.
  I may navigate in the terminal, but putting me at front of Blender etc. and I'm back to crawling speed of RTFM, and all I would see is a zoo of buttons.

I've messed around with Linux before but, I can't seem to find the time to relearn how to get a thumb drive of an easy distro on one. One day I'll get the thing working.
- https://rufus.ie/en/ is your friend ;)
  
  Thanks friend, for some reason I couldn't find this when I was googling "boot Linux from thumb drive". Much appreciated.
- sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda of course
  
  Yes I'm familiar with some of these letters

Burn that a.i. shit while youre at it

after i did such a harm to myself (installing arch), now i use windows 11
- If you want the best of both worlds, go for EndeavourOS, an arch based distro.
  Pretty chill GUI installer, only comes with the basic stuff and what you choose in the installer, like the desktop environment.
  A few clicks and you have a functional arch install with everything setup.
  
  The CLI installer was not a problem. The problem is complete lack of stability, inability to use software like AutoCAD, Inventor or CorelDRAW, and wasting hours of short life for configuration of things, about which you just do not need to think on Windows. Anyway, the least useless distro I found is MX Linux, but after few years with experimenting with Linux, I happily went back to Windows.
- Fredom to what? To wasting time on configuration of every basic functionality of my computer?