I always thought this was a bit of a weird flex, like bragging about knowing how to install Linux. Sure, not everybody knows how to do that, but it isn’t exactly difficult, either, and it certainly doesn’t make you a 1337 hacker.
It’s one of those “stick it to the man”-things. People really love to brag about that and in this case it also saves quite a lot of money. People love to talk about how they saved money.
I always thought this was a bit of a weird flex, like bragging about knowing how to install Linux. Sure, not everybody knows how to do that, but it isn’t exactly difficult, either, and it certainly doesn’t make you a 1337 hacker.
It’s one of those “stick it to the man”-things. People really love to brag about that and in this case it also saves quite a lot of money. People love to talk about how they saved money.
btw, I use arch.
/s
kidding, I would never use that trash