The Official Hello Everyone Thread

fakhry · 2015-02-16 08:19:22

Hi everyone,

My name is fakhry, I'm from Indonesie.
I installed Arch 2 days ago and want to use it regularly.
I hope I can contribute to Arch and the community.

Wolf666 · 2015-02-16 10:09:25

Hi all,

I am a disbanded Win user, after 25 years I made the decision to test Linux....starting from Arch. I already successfully installed on a Virtual Machine, now I will try to build my HTPC with Arch.

Cheers

keystroke · 2015-02-17 00:47:31

Hey everyone! I've been using Arch Linux for 3 months now, and finally got aroudn to joining the forums. I've used Windows virtually all my life and Ubuntu for about 8 years. I don't think I can go back to either one now. Great OS. Great community. Hope I can contribute.

motozirillo · 2015-02-17 06:58:51

Hello all! I'm another Ubuntu-first case. I switched because I've heard that configuring/using Arch is a great way to actually learn about Linux. My first installation went so well I did it another two times! (JK. I botched it )

Systemd, where have you been all my life?

arindom · 2015-02-17 12:26:38

Hello everyone!

After using *buntu's for some time now, I thought to switch over to Arch and it seems I have made it. Got Arch installed after a few failed attempts. With each failed attempts learned something new and it reminded me of the commands that I learnt a long time back.

Enjoyed a lot about the way to registrations to this Forum.

nephitejnf · 2015-02-17 19:25:58

Just got around to joining the forums. I started using Arch about three years ago (took a two year break after six months). I started in Linux with Ubuntu in high school and got bored of that and moved on to something more fun. The community has been a lot of help as looked for solutions to my problems.

asdplayer · 2015-02-18 15:34:14

Hey man!

I'm using Arch Linux since the last summer, and it is currently the only useful distro that I found. I use it as a keyboard synthesizer, audio recorder and effect processor. And for school purposes, for Microchip PIC programming and lots of funny stuff. My laptop is from 2003 and he likes it really much as it's light :-) And I like it too cos it's easy to tune :-)))

Hello Lucky Users!

AsdPlayer, Italy

ThePierrezou · 2015-02-18 17:48:00

Hi Arch Community,
I was using linux long time ago (4 years approximately) and i come back with arch
It's all i can say i think
Hope I can contribute.

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jukebox · 2015-02-19 16:35:21

First of all I want to say that I have never experienced such a thread that allow users to just spam (IMO).
Then, I want to tell you that I have just been able to install the very basic things for my Arch, and of course I am using it right now to write this reply.
I wiped out my whole hard disk drives which used to keep my Windows 8.1 Pro installation and as well as all my working data (I did not back up anything as I sure did not plan to). What happened to be in my mind at that time was just to experience something new (really new, as what I want to tell you here is that I tried many friendly end-user distros before like Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, openSuSE, but unfortunately I did not manage to install Gentoo on my own laptop).
I found out that to make up my mind and then succeed in installing something from scratch is just fascinating.
I have been reading the wiki all day long and just still have not figured out how to complete the rest of the work. So I decided to move here, into this community, hoping that I could have my job well done.
Then this sticky thread just appeared right on the first sight of mine and it is pretty simple, I want to say "Hello archers (wtf archers :-B), I'm in".

permaroot · 2015-02-20 06:13:28

Hey everyone. I have been using Linux off and on for a few years, just getting the time to devote to it again. Would love to learn more about how it works and be able to maintain it myself, as well as troubleshoot my own problems and someday contribute to the Linux Community.

Thanks for having me!

ggg377 · 2015-02-20 10:43:43

Hey there! As Crunchbang (which I happily used for over a year) is now dead, I have migrated to Arch Linux. I've spent almost a whole week setting it up and customizing it and all I can say is I find the OS to be very impressive. Arch has a lot of useful and unique features, which make the system more efficient and building the OS myself has been educational. Hoping for good times to come!

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demo · 2015-02-21 10:44:07

Hello,
I've been using debian and ubuntu for some time, and I've switch to arch to learn more, experience a new system, and also to get a lighter and more configurable system.

forGGe · 2015-02-22 16:06:01

Hello Arch community!

Thanks to all for such a great job making so cool distro and expanding Linux knowledge onto new level!

Sincerely,
Max

marcolof · 2015-02-22 20:23:57

In another life I was a sysadmin for RHEL (4?) and Solaris.

I've just moved from RHEL 5 to Arch.

I'm loving how customizable (and yet how ordered) the package installation process is, as well as systemd!

Thanks Arch!

drcouzelis · 2015-02-23 00:46:23

Welcome.

marcolof wrote:

I've just moved from RHEL 5 to Arch.

Dude. That's, like, a SERIOUS jump from old to current software.

polomi · 2015-02-25 10:16:05

Hi. I've been using Ubuntu since 2007, switched to Lubuntu about 3 years ago, and switched to Arch about 3 days ago.

Heard about Arch many times before as "that distribution that is nice to use if you want to learn Linux by hand", but I never checked it because that description wasn't very interesting to me. I've used the Arch Wiki several times in the past, and last week for some reason I decided to check the home page and the FAQ to learn more about the distribution. What immediately convinced me to try Arch is the philosophy (The Arch Way in the wiki) which is a much more convincing reason than just wanting to learn Linux, but somehow I never heard about that side of the story before. All I heard about is how hard it is to use for beginners, and that it's useful for learning. If someone told me years ago that it's simple/minimalistic and completely user-centric, I'd have jumped on it as soon as I would have heard about it. Well it's never too late, I'm glad to be here at last.

drcouzelis · 2015-02-25 13:02:00

Welcome.

polomi wrote:

Heard about Arch many times before as "that distribution that is nice to use if you want to learn Linux by hand"

People really say that? I mean, I believe you, it's just, how do they describe Gentoo Linux? Or Linux From Scratch??

polomi · 2015-02-25 17:33:15

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
polomi wrote:
Heard about Arch many times before as "that distribution that is nice to use if you want to learn Linux by hand"
People really say that? I mean, I believe you, it's just, how do they describe Gentoo Linux? Or Linux From Scratch??

Still, if you want a serious answer, I've mostly been reading what folks at www.reddit.com/r/linux say, and they usually don't talk too much about Gentoo, much less than about Arch in any case.

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glsmaxx · 2015-02-25 20:47:48

I have been using Linux full time for over a year now. I still have a dual - boot system for some things I can't do in Linux but those things are few and getting fewer. I started off with Mint / Mate which I liked but there was just something missing. I didn't know what as I hadn't tried enough Linux to figure it out. Mint did show me how much I liked Linux as compared to Windows. There was something about it that really interested me. Didn't know what yet, but something. I had been a Windows user since 1988. I had been through DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11, Then '95 and the rest.. Windows '95 was the big change I hadn't been looking for. My computer partner and I used to call it compute by numbers. It was just uber juvenile to us.. We hung with it and got into the Windows funk...Moving on but stuck all @ the same time.

I started a heck of a collection of live DVDs. I mean a bunch of those things started showing up here. I tried them all. From Debian to Ubunto, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu to Mint. Then Ultimate, PC Linux OS, CentOs, Open SUSE, Sparky Linux, DSL, and all the others, pretty much. Somewhere in there I found XFCE and figured out that was my favorite DE. Then I saw Spatry's Manjaro video. Manjaro and XFCE was head and shoulder above all the rest. I liked so many things about it. The AUR, the rolling release model (I had tried rolling releases but not long enuff for them to sink in.) There wasn't much I didn't like.

After that I started watching videos and reading more and more about Arch. I knew I was going to go there someday. I had a ways to come before I could even try an install though. Long story short, after quite a lot of studying the procedure and reading Arch documentation I decided to try it in a VB. Let's just say I wasn't successful the first time, or second... After awhile I got it installed and had learned a bit by trial and error. I finally took the plunge and installed it on this laptop. It is up and running. It's still a work in progress but... I will get there.

So far I really, really like it. Fast, Light and personalized. I think It's going to stay.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-02-25 21:22:50

glsmaxx wrote:

It's still a work in progress

You and the rest of us d00d...

Welcome to Arch!

daylen · 2015-02-27 04:35:04

hi

bteeuwen170 · 2015-02-27 13:41:47

Hello everyone,
I've been an Arch Linux user for over 3 years now.
Today I decided to finally join the forums !

Fred Barclay · 2015-02-28 18:37:49

Hello, everyone, I'm Fred Barclay. I'm not entirely new to Linux--I doubt most Arch users are--but I'm very new to Arch. So, dolby, regarding your "blood" comment in the first post, expect me to be a "delicious" source of it (the fresher the better, or so I'm told.)

Most of my previous Linux experience has been in the realm of Debian. I use LMDE as my main OS. Actually, I believe there are quite a few Mint users that also use Arch, although I don't know if they're members of this forums.
I've also used Debian Jessie (too boring at the moment), and Sid (also boring, although when Jessie moves to Stable I suspect it will become exciting once more.), Kali, TAILS, a bit of Fedora, Mint 17/17.1, a tad of Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE, and perhaps a few others that I've forgotten.
I want to use Arch to see if there's any truth in the saying, "If you use Ubuntu, then you know Ubuntu. If you use Debian, then you know Debian. But if you use Arch, then you know Linux." I want to know Linux, so I'm using Arch.
I also like the idea of customization. Take LMDE for example. It just works for me, and it has everything I need, but it also has a lot I don't need. With Arch, I'm able to control almost every package that goes into the OS, and I hope to make it faster and more responsive this way.

That's about it.

Yvanoff · 2015-03-01 18:03:28

Hello from France.

discovered Linux one or two years ago. Used Ubuntu dual-booted with Win7 for roughly a year. A friend told me about ArchLinux at this time, I remember me telling him that it was a distro for crazy people ^^. Then I changed my laptop three months ago, and decided to go full Linux. Was interested in Arch but installation still scared me so I chose Manjaro, which was a good introduction to Arch. Then I did some mistake with Manjaro and Xorg and instead of fixing the mess decided to go Arch. The installation process was actually quite easy (thanks to the wiki) and so here I am !
thank you for welcoming me here

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Akyrey · 2015-03-02 00:56:16

Hello,
My name is Dario and i'm from Italy! I've been installing Arch on my Lenovo y510p a few times in the last 3-4 days, trying to learn new stuff! I'm really liking it, and thanks for all the help i've already found in these forums just reading solutions posted!

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