Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux (twitchinstalls.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Early last year, an anonymous developer had the idea to try to crowd-source a game of Pokemon using Twitch.tv. 16 days of continuous play later, they were victorious, with an estimated 1.17 million people participating. A new experiment is now trying to ramp up the complexity: the goal is to install Arch Linux. "Every ten seconds, the most popular keystroke in Twitch chat will be entered into an Arch Linux virtual machine." The launch page recommends taking a look at the Arch Linux Wiki, beginner's guide, and a list of bash commands. People in the video stream chat are already discussing strategy.

Comments

Easy

[jwymanm]

Step 1: Install Antergos - https://antergos.com/

Re:rm -rf trolls?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is an ingenious way to demonstrate to 1.17 million users why they have Windows on their computers.

It actually doesn't accept full commands

[iONiUM]

So my previous post about how this won't work is actually wrong. I've been on the actual twitch channel, and the instructions are as follows:

Instructions
Avaliable commands:

• Letters
• Most special keys
• 'space'
• 'enter'
• 'backspace'
• 'system_reset'

So how it actually works is that everyone types 1 letter (or I suppose it takes the first letter you've typed) and it uses that. So to type 'sudo rm -rf /' it would require people to type those exact letters in that sequence. Considering there will probably be many people there at once, some of whom don't want that typed, it will be significantly harder to troll.