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Linux & I Use Arch BTW Hats

Linux users are the internet's most openly evangelical tool tribe, and Arch users are the loudest of them. Know Your Meme traces 'I use Arch, btw' to at least a 2011 tweet ('hey there did you know that I use ArchLinux?') and calls it a catchphrase for the person who feels superior because they run a more difficult distribution. On the Arch forums, one regular's advice about the meme was to 'lean into it harder.' This collection takes that advice. LINUX and OPEN SOURCE name the tribe plainly. I USE ARCH BTW is the meme itself, set in an arch because the joke is already the shape of a curve. SUDO MAKE ME A SANDWICH quotes the xkcd comic that started it in August 2006, and THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE 127.0.0.1 turns localhost into a homecoming. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO EXIT VIM SINCE 2019 is for everyone who has needed Stack Overflow's 'How to exit the Vim editor', a question that passed a million views by 2017. THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP repeats, deadpan, a prophecy Linux.com was already shooting down in 2008. I SAY GNU/LINUX AND I MEAN IT owns the famous 'I'd just like to interject for a moment' copypasta, and I SELF-HOST EVERYTHING and LINUX EVANGELIST are the honest boasts of the homelabber and the convert. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The two strongest lines, I USE ARCH BTW and the vim confession, each get a second colorway.

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