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nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

When I asked a friend of mine who's been running Arch for some time now, he just said: "You're never ready for Arch, so you might as well switch now".

Probably so...

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mscharlee

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Registered: 2015-08-07

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hey I am an Aussie woman aged 55 - yep that's right- living in the middle of the country and running a multi-site linux VPS on Centos 7

Started learning all things computer in early 30's back in the dark ages of '94 and have just continued until today using terminal and

self taught from what I read in places like this.

PayterX

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Registered: 2014-08-11

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

I've been using Arch for about a year now, and linux for a lot longer. Used to use Slackware, then Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, changing my distro with the times, and have known about Arch for a long time. I always heard that it was hard to use, for linux experts, or for fringe groups of people that like things more difficult than they need to be. However in my experience this is not true at all.

I've installed Arch on several computers, and can boot the installer from a USB or network and have it completely installed and working with a DE a lot faster than any other distro i've tried.

There's never any trouble with finding a program that I want. Between pacman and yaourt I can get what I need or something very similar without needing to go to a website and manually download/compile it.

There's also never any problem with reliability. I go months without rebooting and never have anything crash on me. Just the fact that this is a rolling distribution makes things a lot more user-friendly. No need to worry about upgrading to a new release twice a year or so and things not working or having to completely re-install.

It also runs a lot faster than other distro's on my computers. No CPU load averages over 1.00 or 80% of RAM being used.

Long story short, Arch is extremely easy to use and stable without needing to worry about huge upgrades every few months. I don't know why anyone would find it hard to use, and I really don't know why it isn't more popular.

ewaller

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Merging PayterX's thread with the Official Hello Thread.

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riddle00

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2015-05-26

Posts: 81

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello everyone,

I am also quite new to the Arch Linux. Been using Linux for a year, have used Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian. I have installed Arch several months ago, and I'm really liking it, from improvement in performance to the freedom for customization. However, so far I've customized mainly my user experience (desktop design, keyb shortcuts, startup apps, .bashrc file, etc.), and I'm eager to dig deeper and learn more about Linux itself

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campus735

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Registered: 2015-04-20

Posts: 24

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

System.out.println("Hello World!");
I have been used Arch just couple months and I have enjoyed it. This is my first permant linux distro. I bored to windows so I installed arch and windows dualboot.
Worth of every effort.
Arch community is way much better than windows's.

Thanks!
Finland

draigwen

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Registered: 2015-08-09

Posts: 5

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi!

I'm an Arch newbie. I've been using Linux for the past 15 years - originally a Red Hat user before moving to various flavours of Ubuntu over the years, dualbooting with Windows for gaming. I recently got the Humble Bundle book bundle of children's programming books and have been reading the book on using the CLI. And it occured to me that I've forgotten almost everything I used to know about Linux and that I miss knowing what my computer's doing. So I've decided to start learning about Linux again. On my main PC I've still got Ubuntu installed, but I'm trying to use more commandline stuff, and have moved to Awesome WM. And through Awesome I discovered Arch and decided that it sounded exactly what I need. So last week I installed it on my netbook. It's certainly given the netbook a new lease of life and I'm now contemplating the move to Arch on the main PC.

I'll try not to ask too many stupid questions, but it's been a long time since I've done anything substantial in Linux and I've had two babies since then and they've certainly scrambled my brain.

WFV

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Registered: 2013-04-23

Posts: 288

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi Arch Forums! I just started using Arch, having previously limited myself to Ubuntu. I'm excited to be a part of this community and compute the Arch Way. First and foremost, I'm learning to use rsync to create a bootable backup solution. Seeing as how I have this nicely configured and functional work environment, I would hate to have to manually recreate it. Let me know if you have any experience using rsync to do this task.

Will probably get moved to an rsync forum for this but welcome!
My son who turned me on to Arch ( way before my time ) gave me this rsync script to make cumulative snap shots. He has successfully reloaded his system with its inverse on his pc but not on mine, although I think something else went wrong in an update before trying to re-load with the backup:

 # rsync -aAXhv --exclude={/dev/*,/home/*,/media/*,/mnt/*,/proc/*,/run/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/lost+found} /* /mnt/c3snapshot/ROOT/$(date -I) 

sets the initial backup whereas your backup directory will be different. In this example, partition /dev/sdc3 mounted in /mnt/c3snapshot, and ROOT is a directory on that partition where the initial and then incremental snapshots are kept.
And the incremental backup is then:

 # rsync -aAXhv --exclude={/dev/*,/home/*,/media/*,/mnt/*,/proc/*,/run/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/lost+found} --link-dest=/mnt/c3snapshot/ROOT/YYYY-MM-DD /* /mnt/c3snapshot/ROOT/$(date -I) 

I back up /home separately with rsync. Even worse case re-installing Arch, it was still helpful to have the original files around to see what I needed to get everything up and running. So again welcome and if more information or explanation is needed go to rsync forum. or e-mail.

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Crispy24

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 10

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hey guys,

I've been trying to get into Linux off-and-on for 2 years, and after using Arch Linux for the past 8 months, I can safely say I'm a commited user and maintainer of 2 AUR packages. I'm only posting here now because I've finally found a way I can personally contribute.

As an electronics engineering technologist and a perfectionist, I'm insterested in anything related to computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and computer numerical control (CNC). So that means I love CAD, CAM, CNC, 3D printing, etc. I own a 3D printer, and just recently, I bought myself a CNC machine. I've had a hard time finding CAM software for Linux that will suit my needs, and there are even fewer Arch packages in the repositories. Since most Arch users are probably software-oriented programmers, I can see why there's little contribution in CAM and CNC. This is where I come in!

I've been keeping my eye on the 'draftsight' package in AUR, because the package source URL has been invalid for a while. I was hoping the maintainer would respond to a comment on that, and fix the source URL, but nothing was changing. Eventually I decided to email him myself, but to my surprise, the package was gone. Deleted? Probably. That was a waste of a perfectly good package that only needed a simple fix. So I searched my system for the draftsight PKGBUILD that I downloaded to play around with, and I still had it! I fixed the source URL, cleaned it to my standards, tested it, and uploaded it. Now I'm the maintainer of that package.

I then to published the package for CAMmill, the CAM software I will be using with my CNC machine. It's a small project, early in development.

Cute.

edit: improved readability

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,294

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Deleted? Probably. That was a waste of a perfectly good package that only needed a simple fix.

Nope.  No one migrated it in the recent change from the previous AUR system to AUR4.  Those files are now archived and still exist -- waiting for someone to show them some love or to fade into oblivion.  Your approach works too.

Welcome to Arch Linux.

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tobbe

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Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 7

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello,

The name is tobias. I'm a general Linux noob. Started the transition to Linux a year ago when I started programming. Love it so far but I've come across some problems with my nvidia card. I started with debian 7 and everything worked fine, but I wanted to switch 8 and got some problems. After looking around I found that arch was supposed to have the best support so I came here. I like what I seen so far, but unfortunately the problems he persisted.

Anyway. Nice to meet yall

rahulshaw

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Registered: 2015-08-11

Posts: 1

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Ellloooooo

Grim 6.626

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Registered: 2015-08-12

Posts: 1

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello I'm new to Arch and was attracted to it from a desire to get better at manipulating/understanding the Linux environment.  I am also interested in a few specialized distro's out there that are built on Arch.

yuannan

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Registered: 2015-08-12

Posts: 15

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

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EbolaVirus

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

So... How about that local sportsball team!
Did you see the recent match in which their star player sportsed better than the opposing team's star player?
It certainly is lucky they have their star player.
I hear that if they keep sportsing well for the remainder of the season, they may make it to the finals.

I have now exhausted my knowledge of sportsball.

All my future posts on this bbs will probably be Arch Linux related. Hooray!

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EbolaVirus

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Registered: 2015-08-13

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

As an electronics engineering technologist and a perfectionist, I'm insterested in anything related to computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and computer numerical control (CNC). So that means I love CAD, CAM, CNC, 3D printing, etc. I own a 3D printer, and just recently, I bought myself a CNC machine.

Oooh!!! I just bought a CNC machine too! What did you get?

I'm currently running Rhino / Rhinocam on Win7 Under a VM and a dedicated Win7 machine with Mach3 attached to a Syil X5.

I'm making mechanical watches. It's the only non electronics part of my life... =P

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Crispy24

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Registered: 2015-04-23

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Oooh!!! I just bought a CNC machine too! What did you get?

I'm currently running Rhino / Rhinocam on Win7 Under a VM and a dedicated Win7 machine with Mach3 attached to a Syil X5.

I'm making mechanical watches. It's the only non electronics part of my life... =P

I got an X-Carve from inventables. I'd rather have a mill capable of cutting 4'x8' sheets, but this little guy will do just fine for now. At least until I build myself a larger one! :P

I haven't figured out my process to produce things on this machine, but I'm pretty sure it'll be freeCAD/openSCAD/Draftsight > CAMmill > Universal G-Code Sender

Like I said, not many Arch CNC packages out there, so I created some. I'm currently maintaining CAMmill and UGS. I really don't want to run this thing on Windows!

FlyingHappy

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From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Oooh!!! I just bought a CNC machine too! What did you get?

I'm currently running Rhino / Rhinocam on Win7 Under a VM and a dedicated Win7 machine with Mach3 attached to a Syil X5.

I'm making mechanical watches. It's the only non electronics part of my life... =P

I got an X-Carve from inventables. I'd rather have a mill capable of cutting 4'x8' sheets, but this little guy will do just fine for now. At least until I build myself a larger one!

I haven't figured out my process to produce things on this machine, but I'm pretty sure it'll be freeCAD/openSCAD/Draftsight > CAMmill > Universal G-Code Sender

Like I said, not many Arch CNC packages out there, so I created some. I'm currently maintaining CAMmill and UGS. I really don't want to run this thing on Windows!

UGS will run on Linux won't it.  I know they have a Linux package and I've been dieing to try it on my Arch Linux install.  I use it at work as both CAD and CAM (on Windows sadly), it is wonderful at outputting G-Code.  Absolutely love it!

Welcome to the forums!

Crispy24

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Registered: 2015-04-23

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UGS will run on Linux won't it.  I know they have a Linux package and I've been dieing to try it on my Arch Linux install.  I use it at work as both CAD and CAM (on Windows sadly), it is wonderful at outputting G-Code.  Absolutely love it!

Welcome to the forums!

Yeah it runs nicely on Linux! I just needed a package so I can keep my system clean! And thanks for the warm welcome!

FlyingHappy

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From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

UGS will run on Linux won't it.  I know they have a Linux package and I've been dieing to try it on my Arch Linux install.  I use it at work as both CAD and CAM (on Windows sadly), it is wonderful at outputting G-Code.  Absolutely love it!

Welcome to the forums!

Yeah it runs nicely on Linux! I just needed a package so I can keep my system clean! And thanks for the warm welcome!

How much does a licence cost these days?  I'm hoping you are talking about Unigraphics...

Crispy24

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 10

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

How much does a licence cost these days?  I'm hoping you are talking about Unigraphics...

Oops!! UGS as in the Universal G-Code Sender! My bad..

FlyingHappy

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From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

How much does a licence cost these days?  I'm hoping you are talking about Unigraphics...

Oops!! UGS as in the Universal G-Code Sender! My bad..

Ah, well at least that works well! 

I have always wanted a great and cheap CAD/CAM program for Linux, only thing that is truely missing for me in Linux.

Foxhole

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Registered: 2015-08-14

Posts: 37

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi all,
i'm the most newbie guy never seen on this forum. I've also had some difficulties that joining this forum was made impossible to me (i wanted to join this forum because i messed up with my beginner arch linux installation, and with "messed up" i mean i wasn't even able to login into the pc, so i wasn't able to fill the "funny answer" field, required to register this forum). Anyway, i've discovered that there are a lot of tty (terminal instances?) available even if you broke the login manager, so i've been lucky to find them by pressing randomly ctrl+alt+F2. I'm quite sure that when i'll be able to use this arch linux pc, i'll be an elder man

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi all,

Hi!

i'm the most newbie guy never seen on this forum. I've also had some difficulties that joining this forum was made impossible to me (i wanted to join this forum because i messed up with my beginner arch linux installation, and with "messed up" i mean i wasn't even able to login into the pc, so i wasn't able to fill the "funny answer" field, required to register this forum).

Oh no! But you did get here which is great!

Anyway, i've discovered that there are a lot of tty (terminal instances?) available even if you broke the login manager, so i've been lucky to find them by pressing randomly ctrl+alt+F2.

Excellent that you found those on your own. They are called virtual consoles. It is really handy to have more than one for when things go wrong.

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drcouzelis

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Welcome.

i'm the most newbie guy never seen on this forum.

Could have been worse. You could have asked, "Where's the C: drive?"