The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Jeol · 2014-03-10 22:05:24

Hello! I guess I should make an introduction here.

I am impressed with the development and customization aspects of Archlinux. I installed XFCE as a DE - once I get all that configured I'll probably fiddle around a lot with more software base. I can waste a lot of time on that sort of stuff. :3

I would say the next step would naturally be Gentoo, but I'll wait until I don't have school and home-work to deal with, since I can only imagine it will soak up a lot of my time... Then again, I'd also like to get a Pi.

Busy life.

VanillaFunk · 2014-03-10 22:14:57

I thought about gentoo however arch does offer the abs (arch build system) I dont use it personally however From what I understand it lets you use arch as a source based distro.

drcouzelis · 2014-03-10 22:21:09

Jeol wrote:

I would say the next step would naturally be Gentoo

What? No. Arch Linux isn't a step, Arch Linux is a destination.

...just kidding! Linux is too easy and mainstream. Go with OpenBSD or Haiku.

Hugao · 2014-03-13 18:26:23

Hey,

My name is Hugo, i'm from Portugal and I'm usgin Arch since February and Linux since last summer, but my first contact with the penguin was in 2009 with Ubuntu.
I'm a software developer currently developing for the web, but i have knowledge in C#, C, Bash, SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript.

I use Arch because for me it's the perfect distro since I can fully control my OS, customize it from the beginning and it's a rolling release OS

rudrab · 2014-03-15 14:56:17

Hi,
I am Rudra.
Just shifted from fedora to Arch.
Using linux for 10 years...but basically as end users.

jdonaghy · 2014-03-15 18:41:17

My name is Shane, and I'm from Texas. Just installed Arch, and I'm having a hell of a time. No kidding. I come from a Debian background, so this is very different: mkinitcpio, systemd, etc. I'm having fun learning all this new stuff. I love it! I've only had it installed for a couple of hours, and I can already tell you I'm going to be in love with this distro. It just strikes the right chord. Setting up my Fluxbox environment at the moment. Ground up, indeed!

drcouzelis · 2014-03-15 18:58:25

jdonaghy wrote:

Just installed Arch, and I'm having a hell of a time.

Is... is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I guess I don't speak Texas.

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jdonaghy · 2014-03-15 19:06:01

Oh. It's a marvelous thing. I'll get out of Texas, one day.

karol · 2014-03-15 19:12:22

drcouzelis wrote:

jdonaghy wrote:
Just installed Arch, and I'm having a hell of a time.
Is... is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I guess I don't speak Texas.

I had the same doubts ;P

One other thing:

jdonaghy wrote:

I come from a Debian background, so this is very different: mkinitcpio, systemd, etc. I'm having fun learning all this new stuff.

Someone talking about systemd in non-negative terms. Interesting.

;-)

x33a · 2014-03-15 19:17:31

karol wrote:

One other thing:
jdonaghy wrote:
I come from a Debian background, so this is very different: mkinitcpio, systemd, etc. I'm having fun learning all this new stuff.
Someone talking about systemd in non-negative terms. Interesting.
;-)

Well to be fair, he'll have to use systemd even on debian

karol · 2014-03-15 19:23:42

Yup: http://allanmcrae.com/2014/03/interesti … uary-2014/

The Debian init system vote started, came to no conclusion, then was summarized.

Also http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/ubun … ng-systemd

Debian seems to have some info about systemd https://wiki.debian.org/systemd

jdonaghy · 2014-03-15 19:45:25

Oh. Well. Now, that truly is a shame.

karol · 2014-03-15 19:50:16

jdonaghy wrote:

Oh. Well. Now, that truly is a shame.

I don't want to drag this thread OT, but ... what do you mean?
You can keep using Debian if you want. Do you mean it's a shame Debian is moving towards systemd?

jdonaghy · 2014-03-15 20:06:18

Oh, sorry. Yeah, that's all I meant. And I certainly am still using Debian.. and Slackware... and now Arch.

nomorewindows · 2014-03-15 20:07:08

drcouzelis wrote:

jdonaghy wrote:
Just installed Arch, and I'm having a hell of a time.
Is... is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I guess I don't speak Texas.

jdonaghy wrote:

I'm having fun learning all this new stuff. I love it! I've only had it installed for a couple of hours, and I can already tell you I'm going to be in love with this distro.

Griz · 2014-03-16 19:25:03

Greetings,

I've tried a bunch of distros and Arch is just the perfect blend of DIY.

Finally registered after using Arch for a while so I could post a problem I didn't see mentioned elsewhere.

I was contemplating the correct thread to drop it in and found my answer!

Figured I might as well drop a hello post since I registered, so HELLO.

-- Griz

P.S. For anyone else that might be banging their heads on this, hopefully it will come up in their search.
Realtek r8187se wireless device on msi wind u100 not working.
Known issue. Not yet supported on current kernel.

karol · 2014-03-16 19:27:52

Griz wrote:

P.S. For anyone else that might be banging their heads on this, hopefully it will come up in their search.
Realtek r8187se wireless device on msi wind u100 not working.
Known issue. Not yet supported on current kernel.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MS … 00#Realtek
You can update / expand it if you want.

oscillo · 2014-03-16 20:41:52

Hi everyone!
I live in switzerland and I m a robotic student.
I m on arch for 3 days :-)

See you!

nvteighen · 2014-03-17 10:01:02

Hi everyone!
I've migrated my primary system (an ASUS laptop) from Debian testing to Arch a couple of days ago (but I had tried Arch before on a spare semibroken Toshiba laptop I have) and I think I've found love again. The main reason for the change was that Debian, although a great distro (for which I will keep making donations and encourage people to try), wasn't fitting my needs/wants anymore. I wanted something updated, but that supported those constant updates. The alternative, Debian unstable, just isn't the same as a real rolling release like Arch; as you know Debian unstable is more a development branch for the next Debian release so you're actually in permanent beta and, on the other hand, the rolling of packages into the repositories is also frozen when approaching release (in Debian terms, ~1 year before release). Fedora/RPM-based distros don't appeal to me.

So far, I have had absolutely no problems with the installation. This laptop comes with an Intel chipset and everything worked out of the box. There's just a couple of quirks that I still have to sort out (mainly hibernation), but I'm loving the philosophy behind the distro.

nomorewindows · 2014-03-17 16:06:38

oscillo wrote:

Hi everyone!
I live in switzerland and I m a robotic student.
I m on arch for 3 days :-)
See you!

If it weren't for the assumption that your english is second language, I'd say you might've been the computer that wore tennis shoes (or maybe the one that showed up on Jeopardy!)

karol · 2014-03-17 16:12:20

I don't think he eats paper tape. He meant he is a robotics student.
Most of us here don't speak English very good well.

martin92 · 2014-03-17 17:21:34

hey arch-community,

im martin from germany (so i should excuse onselve for my englishskills) and im using arch for one year. Started with ubuntu two years ago and against all odds, i learned much more about linux with arch then ubuntu

By the way im using the AwesomeWM on a T60 and since this week on a raspberry too.

karol · 2014-03-17 17:24:02

martin92 wrote:

By the way im using the AwesomeWM on a T60 and since this week on a raspberry too.

Welcome :-)
Remember that ARM-specific issues go to Arch Linux ARM forum, not here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=153431

ortrigger · 2014-03-17 22:44:34

Hey all! I've been using different Linux distros for the last couple of years. Most recently Manjaro and openSUSE. They all had their pros and cons but I think I've found my distro of choice. I've used Arch a couple of times in the past but never on my main computer. I just finished an install on my main laptop yesterday and I'm loving it.

haydenvr · 2014-03-18 10:29:32

Hello, my name is Hayden and I've just installed Arch on my laptop, still in the process of setting it all up.

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