The Official Hello Everyone Thread

armageddon09 · 2009-02-17 14:00:04

Hello Everybody!!
I'm an Ubuntu migrant and have given most of the distros a shot or to say "a fair chance". I'll be trying oout arch now. Haven't yet installed it but will be doing that soon after going through the guides and troubleshooters. Wish me luck!

Sir_Hearse · 2009-02-19 00:20:31

Howdy. Short time Linux user, only really had the ability to since I made it here to college- Unix systems. Tried Ubuntu, worked fine besides monitor situation. Then came Arch, and I've no plans to have any other OS as the primary, with proper dual monitor setup, etc etc.

Let's disregard the other 4 boot options on this desktop I have, shall we? I ignore them anyway

bernarcher · 2009-02-19 02:29:25

Hello everybody!

Being in home computing since the ancient days of Altair in 1977, I only recently jumped on the Arch bandwagon.
In all those years I have experienced quite a lot of OS's, starting from CP/M (after experimenting with some home-brewn approaches) up to XP, and got a dozen machines broken in this time.

In the late 90s I stumbled over a free SuSE disk in some magazine and gave it a try in order to have my own Unix alike. (PC Unices were rather expensive that time - far out of my reach.) It turned out that X was barely useable on my small breasted machine of that time. Hence for production use I was stuck to M$.

When finally I got a new laptop in 2004 I tried SuSE again in a dual boot for half a year. Then XP got removed from my machines and M$ never came back since. But, alas, in early 2006 half of my RAM broke when I could not afford any new computer. But I managed to set up a completely useable LFS in only 96 MBytes, including OpenOffice and all!

Another new machine thus became LFS driven shortly thereafter. But when this one broke a few weeks ago I found to not have the time for all those compilations again. Thus I tried several others, Redhat, Mandriva, Debian. Apart from Debian Lenny they all were not of my taste. It took some time to find out about Arch. (Could have been earlier if I did not confuse it with Ark!)

Well, Arch is now running for 2 months here (in a dual boot setup with Lenny - just to be secure), turning out to be the best possible compromise. I can remain in touch with everything on the machine and yet do not have to spend my time in compiling, compelling adventurous as this was. Looks like I will stick to it.

By the way, I am a convinced old IceWM user, although I love to experiment with any other desktop a can get hold of. But there is nothing comparing in speed and universal useability (KDE and Gnome, if needed, applications usually run in blinding speed here) for me. Combined with Idesk for some simple desktop icon setup, and building upon Arch of course, this appears to be unbeatable.

dphoyes · 2009-02-19 20:40:51

Hi, new Arch noob here

Having been introduced to Linux with Ubuntu at the beginning of January, I have since been strongly encouraged to try Arch...so here I am! I like what I've seen so far, and once I've sorted out a few niggling issues, I hope to be a happy Archer.

JerichoKru · 2009-02-19 20:47:18

Hello!

Another Arch newb here....

Steph · 2009-02-20 11:35:38

Hello everyone,

My name is Stéphane. I am French but live in England.

I am pretty new to Archlinux and Linux in general for that matter. After some problems with Windows XP I discovered Linux via Ubuntu about six months ago. I then tried quite a few distros on live CDs (Fedora, OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Zenwalk, Puppy Linux, Slax and many others...). This insane distro hopping stopped (for now anyway) when I discovered Archlinux. As I have only one computer at home and I am not the only one to use it, I decided to install Archlinux on a USB stick and it works!!! I am not exactly computer savvy and never thought I would take any pleasure in tinkering with computers, but within about 10-12 hours I managed to install Arch on a USB key, configure my wireless internet, configure Xorg, install LXDE (and change its looks, install new themes, icons, wallpapers...), install a few applications (ie Firefox) and get on the Internet. The most amazing thing is that I found it enjoyable and it was surprisingly easy with the Beginners' Guide and the Wiki pages.

Now, I am sure will encounter some problems down the line when I try to do more complicated things, so I decided to join the Forums; be prepared for some newbie questions!!!

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completist · 2009-02-23 03:27:03

Hello

Name is Jimi. Live in the USA.

Only been using Linux for about two months now. Started with Ubuntu and tinkered with it for a while, but I noticed that I always had about 200 processes. That seemed to much for me. Found a post on ubuntu forum about arch, found the website, read the beginners guide, seemed easy enough. So I installed it in a VM at first to try it. Today I wiped Ubuntu and spent all day installing and configuring arch. Ran into a few little issues which were because of user error. Now I have my sound, nvidia graphics, a DE(LXDE) its all good to go.

There is something very attractive about running a DE, firefox(3tabs), a file manager and only using 175MB of RAM.

Well nice to meet you all, I have to start cleaning all these other distro's disk off of my desk(can barely see my keyboard). Found the arch way very appealing.

CalcAndCoffee · 2009-02-23 22:13:07

Hello!

My name is Adam. I'm from New Jersey (USA), and I'm a computer science major at RPI (in New York, USA).

I've been using Linux for five or six years now, mostly Fedora and/or Slackware. I've also used Debian a bit (mostly late last year) and tried various other distros. I just wiped my Fedora install to try Arch two days ago, and I've already found more things I love about Arch than I could possibly list here.

I'd like to thank the Arch developers and community for making an beautiful distro and providing excellent resources (the wiki is incredibly useful and helpful!).

peligom · 2009-02-25 16:41:45

Helle from Turkey

guitarMan666 · 2009-02-27 06:35:15

Just a quick hello! I am new to Arch, at the request of one of my friends. I currently use Ubuntu and Damn Small Linux (as a portable OS on a flash drive) and look forward to getting Arch up and running alongside Ubuntu!

marduik · 2009-02-27 12:39:11

* Looks around the smoke filled room, sips coffeee*
Hi All,
I am Aegys and I was a windows user.

I have been dual booting.. ok thats a lie. I have been running XP and installing linux distros on partition for the last 2 years. The joke from friends and family has been how long will the current distro I have installed be on my machine.be still on my machine next week:D

After many many installs I became fed up and was about to wipe the drive and just run windows, however I couldn't bring myself to install XP after I had finally removed it this time. I took control of the wife's system for 3 days reading up on the distros I had not tried yet. I wanted a distro that installed vanilla programs ( example KDE as it is released by the developers of KDE ) . I dont like when a program has been made suposedly better by a distro. I like slackware for this but I dont want to compile every little thing that goes on my machine and spend a weekend looking for dependancies of dependancies.

After much reading I found Archlinux. It is great to me. I loved the installed and the up to date packages. After a couple days of use I started to relapse. So I went out and bought the family a console. I truely think I have this windows thing licked. Archlinux and a console have saved my life.

Ok all joking and playing around aside. After many distros this is the one that I found to be the best for me. If you are looking at these forums and thinking it may be a distro to try. I say take the plunge and try it you may like it.

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pnoom · 2009-02-28 09:48:59

Hello all, I'm Johan from Belgium.

After a few failed attempts in the past 6 years with linux I finally managed to ditch XP in may 2008. Distro of choice was the ubuntu-based linux mint, which was the only distro that actually worked 100% out of the box for me and looked good as well. I still install mint for other people who wanted to try linux, they usually have no problems.

Mint remained my default distro until last week but meanwhile I had tried a lot of other distros (fedora, mandriva, xubuntu,...) and unixes (pc-bsd, opensolaris) out of curiosity. I found out I didn't just want a "working distro".
I hoped I could eventually have "my own" customized OS, something without bloat, with only the building blocks I need. Something modular but at the same time not complicated in its architecture.

I read about BSD and i liked the principles behind it - more centralized and thus less "chaos". So last december I printed a few chapters from the BSD handbook, and made a new partition to install freeBSD. Well it was easier than I expected and I learned a lot. This was how I wanted to install my OS... like a building blocks system. Choosing and installing base system packages, then getting xorg to work, then putting gnome on top of that. Even my wireless internet worked! But once installed it became a lot harder. Tinkering for many hours to mount my drives, fixing a lot of things i didn't like in vanilla gnome, getting my audio to work (didn't succeed...). In the end I decided to give it some rest...

But the desire to get a working but unbloated system increased again when I started noticing how heavy ubuntu/mint really is on my 4 years old PC - more and more maxing out of CPU and ram. I started to look for a linux distro similar to freeBSD. Then at least I knew my hardware would work because it is all supported in linux.

So I found arch linux and installed it last week. Well the same day I decided arch would be my new default and I haven't even booted the mint partition again. The installer is very similar to freebsd so installation went very smooth. And wow it is fast! And pacman is wonderful. Remembering my gnome problems I also decided to try other DEs so I've installed XFCE and LXDE. Mainly using LXDE now, it feels good to have a DE with only a few processes running. It also feels good to have everything instantly opened - I don't think I have ever experienced that kind of responsiveness.

In the end all I can say is thanks for setting me free from a world of bloat!

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alfagamma81 · 2009-03-01 21:25:21

Hello everyone! This is Finland calling.
I never thought, when i first time layed my hands on arch linux installation cd, that this could be so easy..! I had several trys with other distros which did not impress me very much. I really hated the way they wanted me to "install this and install that" without asking if i really wanted those things to happen..

Anyway, i was sceptical about arch when i started installing it. I was thinking "there will be some major problem encounter that i wont solve without tearing my hair out of my head..".. Surprisingly everything went just fine, THANKS TO YOUR GREAT WIKI here! I got my gnome running, installed some audio and video players, got utorrent working with wine, installed and learned how to operate with compiz desktop(who wants to go using windows after that??).. etc..

Now , im really eager about MY OWN system. Only reason i sometimes have to go back to windows is gaming(sigh..)

Hakkelse · 2009-03-02 19:08:22

Uh...new here...Just getting to know Arch...

semitone36 · 2009-03-02 23:47:12

Hey all

This is semitone from the US. Less than 2 years ago I started college as an economics major and bought my first laptop. Back then I didnt even know what a hard drive was. But the incredible machine that was on my desk awoke a passion within me like I had never felt before and whenever I had time I spent it trying to uncover it's mysteries.

In that first year of college I discovered what an "Operating System" was and through some reading at the library I discovered that Windows wasnt the only choice I had. From there I battled the great serpent that is Vista and tried valiantly to make it share my laptop with the "Ubuntu" newcomer. But, realising its defeat, Vista used its last breath to take my laptop to the depths of hell with it. My only option, then, was to use Ubuntu to restore my lifeless companion to its previous state.

I spent the cold months of a North Dakota winter going through windows withdrawl as I attempted to make sense of the alien system before me. But through patience and vigilance, I prevailed and came to master the new ways of open source. I had gone from viewing a computer as a tool of the devil to being the technology go-to guy of my family and friends. I changed my major to Computer Science and now here I am saying hello! to all on these forums.

I look forward to learing from you!

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leprosys · 2009-03-03 02:44:43

Hello everyone,

My name is William and I am from El Salvador, I previously used debian, because the community Debian in my country is very big.
But I prefered ArchLinux and I can recommend it to my friends. But only one of my friends use it.
And I love Arch

My English isn't good, but I'm learning, sorry

I hope to learn much here, greetings.

Ranguvar · 2009-03-03 03:56:42

Welcome all new Archers!! Enjoy your stay

cjnkns · 2009-03-03 20:54:25

Just thought I'd pop in and say HI! Can't wait to get home and try ArchLinux!

canuck · 2009-03-04 21:37:18

Hi all.

Long time linux user trying out Arch linux. My experience is mostly with Debian (Testing/Unstable branches).

I am going to try out Arch over the few weeks and see how I make out. If I like what I see I am planning on sticking with Arch long term and contributing to the project (development, documentation, testing, etc).

astacha · 2009-03-05 15:20:26

Hi all,

Been using Linux properly for just over a year now. I started with OpenSuse and have played about with Fedora and Mandriva. I though I'd give Arch a try because I heard good things about it in one of the SourceCast podcasts.

In particular I was drawn to Arch because it's a manual system, which will force me to use commands and learn more about how things are done within the O/S.

Anyway, I've installed it, configured X with no problems and am currently using xfce4 as a GUI.

I must say that I like this distro a lot and hope that I can learn enough to contribute the the community.

Alexie

aqamar · 2009-03-05 16:57:10

Hi, im relatively new with archlinux, and i love it!

Thanks a lot to all the developers and the comunnity of ArchLinux for create/modificate/upgrade/utilize this amazing linux distro!!!

Primoz · 2009-03-05 17:05:33

Hello I'm Primož and I'm from Slovenia. As many others I to come from Kubuntu to Arch and KDEmod (but I didn't use Chakra LiveCD).
So far I quite like Arch it's definitely faster and even though I have some problems with some simple things like (setting the date correctly), I still like Arch and I feel that decision to change from
Kubuntu to Arch was right.

abesto · 2009-03-05 19:33:43

Hey all

I've been using Linux exclusively for about a year. Started on Fedora, then used Ubuntu for some time. They were great for learning about Linux, but Arch is really what I was looking for. Been using it for about half a year, thought it's time to visit the forums.
I'm from Hungary, real name is Zoltán Nagy, Zoli for friends, but abesto is way more cool

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eilenbeb · 2009-03-08 01:41:46

Hi. Strong Windows background, but never liked the direction Microsoft was taking. I've been using Ubuntu+IceWm on my main rig, and DSL on a smaller one for about a year now.
There were a number of things I didn't like about many of the distro's I've tried, and I'm hoping Arch is going to be my main while I learn more about all this.
Eventually I hope to go the LFS route, but I've still got a long way to go.

Mostly though, I'm just posting here becuase I wanted to test the code and quote blocks (didn't see a sandbox section).

eilenbeb@uCore64:~$ foobar
-bash: foobar: command not found

...and to quote the poster above,

Hello from the Usa.

See you all in the forums.
laters,
b

jgaldon · 2009-03-08 18:28:52

Hello,

I'm here to learn, I have been using Opensuse for a long time, but few days ago, a fried showed me Archlinux running with Xfce 4.6 and it was very quick. As my machine is a little bit old, here running Archlinux now it's very fast.

I want to continue learning, but now with Archlinux.

Regards,
Juan.

Arch Linux

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