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#1 2008-06-23 06:14:36

josomebody
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My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

She was bored, I was playing Sauerbraten, so I gave her an Arch install CD and told her to go to town. She started not even knowing how to use nano, and in an hour she had xfce up and running and spent the afternoon themeing it yesterday. She needed some help figuring out the config files in /etc during the install and didn't know what hardware she had (this is on my old notebook with a spare hard drive), and other than that, all the help she got was a pacman briefing  and what the names of packages and Unix commands were. Most importantly how to use man.

Just thought I'd make the announcement that Arch has passed the Girlfriend Test.

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#2 2008-06-23 06:32:56

lucke
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

Now we gotta obfuscate the installation procedure :-(

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#3 2008-06-23 06:43:36

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

well this removes all doubt that arch is not newbie friendly tongue

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#4 2008-06-23 06:43:42

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

josomebody wrote:

Just thought I'd make the announcement that Arch has passed the Girlfriend Test.

Don't think I would be able to imagine what would happen if I gave my GF an Arch linux CD and told her to install it herself. The outcome would definitely not be her having a "fresh" Arch install.

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#5 2008-06-23 07:08:31

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

krigun wrote:

josomebody wrote:

Just thought I'd make the announcement that Arch has passed the Girlfriend Test.

Don't think I would be able to imagine what would happen if I gave my GF an Arch linux CD and told her to install it herself. The outcome would definitely not be her having a "fresh" Arch install.

Let me guess, she'd laugh at you and tell you that NetBSD is -The- way and that Linux is for newbies who hate windows and don't know any better?

josomebody: What exactly is the girlfriend test and what exactly is it supposed to prove?

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#6 2008-06-23 07:33:04

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

sniffles wrote:

Let me guess, she'd laugh at you and tell you that NetBSD is -The- way and that Linux is for newbies who hate windows and don't know any better?

HAHA, right.. If I see _THAT_ happening, then I have seen it all.

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#7 2008-06-23 08:08:18

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

Great story. big_smile

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#8 2008-06-23 08:18:09

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

lucke wrote:

Now we gotta obfuscate the installation procedure :-(

Maybe add a protection like the age verification system in Leisure Suit Larry.
With some questions about Arch (e.g. present some problems where the user must pick the most KISS solution) and general knowledge questions about Linux.

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#9 2008-06-23 08:37:47

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

josomebody wrote:

Just thought I'd make the announcement that Arch has passed the Girlfriend Test.

Its the other way around!
Your girlfriend passed the Archlinux test!
I'd start thinking about marriage if i were you tongue

keep the AUR clean

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#10 2008-06-23 10:47:46

jb
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

josomebody wrote:

Just thought I'd make the announcement that Arch has passed the Girlfriend Test.

Did you file a bug report?

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#11 2008-06-23 12:13:32

lloeki
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

ah it brings back memories. same situation some years ago with gentoo...

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#12 2008-06-23 12:40:50

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

lucke wrote:

Now we gotta obfuscate the installation procedure :-(

just mix some code from the Gentoo installer..

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#13 2008-06-23 13:22:42

ralvez
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

Well ... a solution, to avoid having to obfuscate the installer's code, would be to include a "female detection" procedure in the installer. If the installer determines the user to be a female it will fail to install even if all the commands issued are correct ... lol

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#14 2008-06-23 13:53:07

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

lloeki wrote:

ah it brings back memories. same situation some years ago with gentoo...

Your non-techy girlfriend installed Gentoo?
Thats impossible!

keep the AUR clean

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#15 2008-06-23 14:04:15

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

The Intelligent Girlfriend Test you mean tongue.

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#16 2008-06-23 14:13:52

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

Man, I wish my girlfriend would run Arch. Maybe I'll make a livecd for her.

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#17 2008-06-23 14:38:06

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

Damnit... until this story I thougt I was 1337 sad

tongue big_smile

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#18 2008-06-23 15:32:25

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

lucky b*****d has a girlf friend, does she has sisters?

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#19 2008-06-23 16:19:35

josomebody
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

She's got a twin with a thing for Welshmen cool

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#20 2008-06-23 17:14:46

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

phrakture wrote:

Man, I wish my girlfriend would run Arch. Maybe I'll make a livecd for her.

I wish she did too, I'm still worried about Arch being renamed!

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#21 2008-06-23 20:44:38

vogt
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

josomebody wrote:

Most importantly how to use man.

Isn't that convenient wink

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#22 2008-06-23 20:57:27

dunc
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

anomander wrote:

Damnit... until this story I thougt I was 1337 sad

Heh. That's just what I was thinking. I suppose I'll have to try LFS now.

josomebody wrote:

She's got a twin with a thing for Welshmen

Is Scottish close enough? I can whistle Men of Harlech, if that's any help.

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#23 2008-06-24 10:26:49

lloeki
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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

dolby wrote:

lloeki wrote:

ah it brings back memories. same situation some years ago with gentoo...

Your non-techy girlfriend installed Gentoo?
Thats impossible!

well, I have to agree that the gentoo handbook is fairly well written, complete and educative. and my girlfirend is quick and smart, credits to her!

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#24 2008-06-24 11:35:54

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

sniffles wrote:

krigun wrote:

josomebody wrote:

Just thought I'd make the announcement that Arch has passed the Girlfriend Test.

Don't think I would be able to imagine what would happen if I gave my GF an Arch linux CD and told her to install it herself. The outcome would definitely not be her having a "fresh" Arch install.

Let me guess, she'd laugh at you and tell you that NetBSD is -The- way and that Linux is for newbies who hate windows and don't know any better?

josomebody: What exactly is the girlfriend test and what exactly is it supposed to prove?

lol and marry her right away!!

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#25 2008-06-24 13:39:17

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Re: My non-techy girlfriend installed Arch

daf666 wrote:

lucke wrote:

Now we gotta obfuscate the installation procedure :-(

just mix some code from the Gentoo installer..

He said obfuscate, not break... wink

- "Cryptographically secure linear feedback based shift registers" -- a phrase that'll get any party started.

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