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Life & fun · October 30, 2015

Twitch Installs Arch Linux

Try to Install Arch Linux via Twitch Chat! or Sabbotage!

Twitch Installs Arch Linux launched on October 30, 2015 with 78 votes, #778 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

Remember how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was? Now we have a much harder challenge: install Arch Linux. Every five seconds, the most popular keystroke in Twitch chat will be entered into an Arch Linux virtual machine. Just join our Twitch.tv stream and contribute to the mayhem! However, below are some milestones. When these goals are met, we will raffle off some coolfrom twitchinstalls.com

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