The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-02-08 13:48:29

Hello talnet, welcome to Arch

talnet wrote:

stone head.

What on earth does that mean?

talnet · 2015-02-08 15:53:02

I just like to show myself as a guy with so many questions and reasons.

Sorry for my bad English tho .

keithcleaver · 2015-02-09 13:08:07

Hi everyone! My names Keith, and I'm a brand new (less than a week) user to Arch from the UK.

I'd been using Kubuntu for just over 18 months, but I'd been a long time admirer of Archs philosophy, but had never plucked up the courage to make the leap, mainly because of how "complicated" the Beginners Guide on the wiki seemed to be to me.

Having done a lot of reading though, watching YouTube clips (Thanks to the JayLaCroix channel there for what is an excellent tutorial series on installing Arch in a VM), and getting used to the installation process via VMs, I finally felt confident enough to take the plunge on my real Hard Disk last week, and I can now say that I'm running a full Arch system with Cinnamon as a DE and just the packages that I needed.

I'm really enjoying the feeling I get when I turn on my PC to load into a system that I'd "designed", and not load a system that would've been 75% full of software I would never have used. Great job developers!

icbrainy · 2015-02-10 11:12:42

Howdy!

Been a Windows user for a number of years but began getting highly repelled with what Microsoft's lack of flexibility for specialty applications. I've taken a massive interest in Linux for its flexibility and disk efficiency. I hope to be able to embrace Linux and reduce my dependency on "limited use" Windows.

Gamonics · 2015-02-11 00:26:40

Hi folks.

In some ways, I'm a Linux veteran. I began using the Linux kernel with Slackware kernel version 1.2 running on a 486 CPU in 01995 or thereabouts. I've been the sysadmin for my own Linux machine (of one distro flavor or another) as my primary computing device for the past 20+ years. So I guess that makes me kind-of a veteran (though I readily admit that there's still an awful lot that I'm clueless about). For example, when I upgraded the 486 to a Pentium, I was compiling my own 1.3 kernels using the then-alpha level Adaptec SCSI driver because the new motherboard came with a built-in SCSI controller that had my only attached HDD. So I compiled my kernels on the 486, installed them on the Pentium, and that was a routine for me back then. It's been awhile since I've built my own kernels, but I did it so many times that the experience is burned into my mind, and I had fun doing it. I've run my own Cyrus IMAP mail server and a Kerberos authentication system and lots of stuff like that.

In other ways, I still consider myself a Linux newbie. For example, it was only sometime in the last week or so that I first discovered the wonderful GNU screen for handling local and remote terminal sessions. I used to have myriad xterms open in a single X session or I would make prolific use of the Alt-Fx virtual terminals before I ran startx. Boy GNU screen would have been a big help back then.

I've always been a hacker, even from high school days when I used to rebuild old VW engines, and I've done some programming in C++ for a master's thesis project in Operations Analysis (which I typeset using GNU Emacs and LaTeX), but I don't consider myself a skilled developer by any means.

As of today I'm brand new to Arch, but I've gone through a fairly large number of other distros from Slackware to SUSE to Redhat, Yellowdog, Debian, Ubuntu, et. al. ad nauseam. I never ran CrunchBang although I did try it out in my MacBook Pro in a live session today for long enough to see that it had no support for WiFi using the BC4331 network controller. I know Philip recently ended development for #!, but it sounded like the perfect distro for me after I've become very fed up with the trend represented most strongly in Ubuntu and derivatives. So now I've spent a good deal of time in the Arch wiki and I'm pretty excited about installing it on my MBP.

I see some people have been able to triple boot with OSX/WinXPP/Arch and I'd like to do that. I have 1TB of diskspace, so I foresee no problems there, but it looks like the last time anyone did this was in 2009: "This may not work for everyone but it has been successfully tested on a MacBook from late 2009."

I have the MacBookPro9,2 from mid 02012 with Boot ROM Version: MBP91.00D3.B09 (I know this is one version number above what's listed as current and I don't understand that, but that's what the OS X Installer for Yosemite claims is true for this machine) and SMC Version: 2.2f44. If anyone has any pointers for working with Arch on this machine then I'd very much appreciate your mentioning them here.

Sorry for the long-winded intro, but Arch seems like just my kind of community and I look forward to being here for a long time so I thought I'd give a proper introduction.

drcouzelis · 2015-02-11 14:09:32

Welcome.

Gamonics wrote:

it was only sometime in the last week or so that I first discovered the wonderful GNU screen for handling local and remote terminal sessions.

I know what you mean. I used to use a Bash "while" loop to watch file sizes as I copy stuff in a terminal window. I just recently discovered that I don't need to write Bash loop to do that - because somebody wrote the "watch" command a few decades ago that does the same thing. My new rule in Linux is, if it seems like there should be an easier way to do something then someone already probably wrote an application to do it for me a long time ago.

(And before you become too attached to "screen", be aware that "tmux" is it's spiritual modern successor.)

reygoch · 2015-02-11 15:26:38

Hello everyone!

Gamonics · 2015-02-11 15:43:17

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
Gamonics wrote:
it was only sometime in the last week or so that I first discovered the wonderful GNU screen for handling local and remote terminal sessions.
I know what you mean. I used to use a Bash "while" loop to watch file sizes as I copy stuff in a terminal window. I just recently discovered that I don't need to write Bash loop to do that - because somebody wrote the "watch" command a few decades ago that does the same thing. My new rule in Linux is, if it seems like there should be an easier way to do something then someone already probably wrote an application to do it for me a long time ago.
(And before you become too attached to "screen", be aware that "tmux" is it's spiritual modern successor.)

Thanks for your reply, David. And for mentioning tmux. I'll be sure to check it out.

Gamonics · 2015-02-11 16:58:43

Gamonics wrote:

Hi folks.
...
I have the MacBookPro9,2 from mid 02012 with Boot ROM Version: MBP91.00D3.B09 (I know this is one version number above what's listed as current and I don't understand that, but that's what the OS X Installer for Yosemite claims is true for this machine) and SMC Version: 2.2f44. If anyone has any pointers for working with Arch on this machine then I'd very much appreciate your mentioning them here.
...

After posting my intro yesterday, I noticed this specific guide for MacBookPro9,2 under related articles near the top of this page, and that helped a great deal. I also overlooked the grub-mkconfig step during installation with obvious consequences but resolved that quickly with the help of this forum (thanks, Strompf).

So I'm delighted with my new Arch install on the MBP!

I'm utterly astonished at how fast Arch is at doing stuff:

The grub "choose OS screen" is up only 8 seconds after powering on, and I see the getty "login: " prompt only 16 seconds later. I've grown accustomed to waiting 1-2 minutes for the OS X login prompt (though I recognize that OS X is loading a lot more software than my barebones Arch system is at this point).

Arch enters sleep/suspend state within 8 seconds of shutting the lid, and wakes up from that state only 1 second after opening the lid.

The machine is powered off only 5 seconds after executing "shutdown -h now"

This is wonderful! Thank you Arch devs for making such an impressive system. I'm looking forward to using this distro for many years to come.

BobCo70 · 2015-02-11 18:36:00

hi everybody looking forward to learning more about arch.

mreff555 · 2015-02-13 01:17:17

Hello everyone,

I just thought I'd say Hi. This is my first time running arch, pacman, systemd and KDE so it's basiclly a totally new operating system. I'm sure you will see a lot of me.
I playing with slack and fedora back in the 90's and early 2000's but didn't actually switch to linux until around 2007. I ran CrunchBang for two years and then switched to a minimal openbox Gentoo build 2009. I still really like Gentoo, but I needed something different. It was nice for once to install an OS in 3 hours rather than 3 days. Besides, a bootstrapped compiler and compile on install software may be a little faster, but honestly I'm really happy with how well everything is running now.

I do have one question though. is there a way to clean up or monitor dependancies with pacman? I've noticed that if I install a package of 60 programs and delete that package it only removes the package I was originally trying to install. Not the dependancies.

nullified · 2015-02-13 01:22:04

From

man pacman

the -s option will: "Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and helps keep a clean system without orphans. If you want to omit condition (B), pass this option twice."

edit: Welcome to the Arch and the forums!

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jasonwryan · 2015-02-13 01:49:39

Merging with the Official Hi Everyone thread...

mreff555 · 2015-02-13 02:03:50

Thanks!

ralph_13 · 2015-02-13 12:41:38

Hi everyone, I'm ralph (no sh!t) and I'm not really new to arch. I've used it in the past, migrated to #!, but then decided to come back. The Arch's bleeding edge software and rolling release system is really the best thing about it. Also thanks to ewaller for helping me create this account =]

drcouzelis · 2015-02-13 13:41:36

Welcome.

I wonder how many CrunchBang refugees we'll see here. (Sad that CrunchBang is gone. Not sad because of more Arch Linux users.)

fridsun · 2015-02-13 15:54:24

Hello everyone,

I still have to say "Arch Linux rocks". It is my go-to OS for all my vagrant dev VMs.

Hope I can one day get to the kernel code.

M4R10zM0113R · 2015-02-13 19:18:45

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
Gamonics wrote:
it was only sometime in the last week or so that I first discovered the wonderful GNU screen for handling local and remote terminal sessions.
I know what you mean. I used to use a Bash "while" loop to watch file sizes as I copy stuff in a terminal window. I just recently discovered that I don't need to write Bash loop to do that - because somebody wrote the "watch" command a few decades ago that does the same thing. My new rule in Linux is, if it seems like there should be an easier way to do something then someone already probably wrote an application to do it for me a long time ago.
(And before you become too attached to "screen", be aware that "tmux" is it's spiritual modern successor.)

Lol, I'm not the only one who used to use whiles until a /while/ ago when I saw an Nixcraft post on watch

Mr_ED-horsey · 2015-02-13 22:06:30

Hello everyone. I used to use Arch all the time on my laptops (always preferred Fedora on the desktop), but I had a tablet for the last few years and hadn't bothered with laptops, outside of work, since then, but I guess I'm kind of over tablets now.I went 3 months without using my 2012 Nexus 7 and eventually traded it to a friend for his old Super Nintendo. I still had boxes full of old cartridge games in storage from when I was a kid and figured "why not?" Best trade EVER in my book

Anyway, I'm very rusty with Arch right now since I haven't used it in about 3 years so I think I've regrown my n00b status. Plus I haven't been on these forums in the same amount of time, so I figured I'd reintroduce myself

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
I wonder how many CrunchBang refugees we'll see here. (Sad that CrunchBang is gone. Not sad because of more Arch Linux users.)

It is sad to see CrunchBang go. I hadn't used it in years but I did have it on an old Compaq Presario for a few years. Nothing but positive things to say about it. It never gave me any problems and had an incredibly friendly and helpful community, and I swear installing #! extended the life of that crappy laptop by a few years. I thought it was on it's last legs before I installed it. I was just using it as test machine at the time. I was pleasantly surprised by that.

It seems like all the distros I tend to like outside of Arch & Fedora always seem to bite the dust ie. SolusOS, Fuduntu and now CrunchBang... I must be bad luck

Luky · 2015-02-14 22:58:31

Why hello there.

I'm just a casual, noob Ubuntu user. My only Linux experience : 2 years with Ubuntu and I almost never used the console. I'm about to get a new laptop and somehow, I want to try out another distribution.
After googling a bit, i think Arch may be interesting if I get more skilled at using Linux in general. Since I'm still a complete noob, things are likely to get tough right at the beginning for me, but apparently it's very educational and I believe it's worth a shot. I'll try it with a virtual machine first, let's see how things go.

(I apologize for any grammar mistakes, I'm trying my best.)

Alad · 2015-02-14 23:21:31

I'll try it with a virtual machine first, let's see how things go.

Excellent way to start with Arch. Welcome.

Pagancat · 2015-02-15 01:09:05

Hi everybody.

Started using Arch at the beginning of the week. I have been using Linux for a number of years and wanted to see if I was up to the challenge of installing and using Arch. Was shocked when I actually managed it. Previously I was using openSUSE.

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darksyntax · 2015-02-15 03:01:32

I probably should have signed up here a long time ago.

Hello everyone

ralph_13 · 2015-02-15 15:57:16

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
I wonder how many CrunchBang refugees we'll see here. (Sad that CrunchBang is gone. Not sad because of more Arch Linux users.)

Mr_ED-horsey wrote:

It is sad to see CrunchBang go. I hadn't used it in years but I did have it on an old Compaq Presario for a few years. Nothing but positive things to say about it. It never gave me any problems and had an incredibly friendly and helpful community, and I swear installing #! extended the life of that crappy laptop by a few years. I thought it was on it's last legs before I installed it. I was just using it as test machine at the time. I was pleasantly surprised by that.
It seems like all the distros I tend to like outside of Arch & Fedora always seem to bite the dust ie. SolusOS, Fuduntu and now CrunchBang... I must be bad luck

CrunchBang is gone? I didn't knew, that's so sad. I left just a few days before that happened. I feel kinda guilty now =[
I'm using my #! openbox menu.xml on this Arch install so the transitions was quite easy because everything I needed to install was listed there.

AnonFriendly · 2015-02-15 16:37:26

Hey guys, I've been running arch for a couple days, just didnt make an account so i wouldnt be tempted to ask any retarded questions. and @drcouzelis, yes i am from #!. i'm gonna run it on one of my machines till it dies and keep updating the repositories. funny enough my arch installation is openbox with tint2 and conky lol.
but i loved #! and it got me into messing with configuration files and all that. now that its gone arch is my favorite. i thought about ^! but if i figured i might as well go the extra step and configure everything myself. doesnt really take that long.

Anyways, glad to be part of the community, see you guys around.

Arch Linux

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