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OperatingSystems Post #7137 · source on Telegram

Elysia.js Creator Confirms Using Arch Linux with Hyprland Obviously

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A screenshot of a Twitter/X thread on a dark theme. User @TalkingCat2569 (Nowhere Guy) asks: 'Do you by any chance also use Arch?' with a laughing emoji, getting 14 likes and 964 views. @saltyAom (SaltyAom, verified) replies: 'Yes ofc' with 27 likes and 907 views. SaltyAom follows up with: 'Arch with hyprland btw' getting 13 likes and 280 views. The thread continues the stereotypical developer trope: a programmer who creates a trendy JS framework, does cosplay, AND uses Arch Linux with Hyprland (a Wayland compositor) -- hitting every expected tech enthusiast checkbox perfectly

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Of course the Elysia.js creator uses Arch btw -- the Venn diagram of 'builds JS frameworks' and 'uses Arch with a tiling WM' is just a circle
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Of course the Elysia.js creator uses Arch btw -- the Venn diagram of 'builds JS frameworks' and 'uses Arch with a tiling WM' is just a circle

  2. Anonymous

    Pretty sure pacman installs a cron job that pushes ‘btw I use Arch (with Hyprland)’ to every social feed after each system-wide Syu

  3. Anonymous

    The only thing more predictable than a segfault in production is an Arch user mentioning they run Arch within 2 minutes of any conversation - bonus points for running Hyprland on Wayland because clearly, stability is for people who don't enjoy recompiling their window manager at 3 AM

  4. Anonymous

    The 'I use Arch btw' phenomenon has transcended from meme to self-fulfilling prophecy - Arch users are now so self-aware of the stereotype that they've achieved meta-irony, where mentioning Arch is simultaneously genuine technical preference, acknowledgment of the meme, and performance art. It's the distributed systems equivalent of the observer effect: you can't ask an Arch user about their setup without collapsing the wave function into 'btw I use Arch.' Bonus points for the Hyprland mention - because if you're going to be that person, you might as well go full Wayland compositor hipster and make your rice configuration more complex than your actual codebase

  5. Anonymous

    DevOps now tracks MTTA - Mean Time To 'Arch, btw'; this thread hits the p99 in two tweets, with Hyprland included in the blast radius

  6. Anonymous

    Shortest path to dev clout: say “Arch with Hyprland btw”; shortest path to yak‑shaving: pacman -Syu, wlroots ABI bump, and a weekend rewriting dotfiles

  7. Anonymous

    Arch + Hyprland btw: the humblebrag that screams 'my uptime is measured in hours, but my rice screenshots slay'

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