The Official Hello Everyone Thread

runical · 2016-02-19 11:37:30

Welcome all!

macstar3000 wrote:

so far i am very happy it still has to prove in the longer run and i have not found too many reviews of long term arch users who maybe describe what problems they faced over let's say 2 or 3 years but ok

That is because Arch is quite stable and the people usually running it after all that time are inclined to learn with each problem. To sum up some problems I had:

1. Sound suddenly not working after a kernel update
2. NFS shares not working due to rcpbind being disabled after a reboot
3. Change in behaviour of packages
4. Video card stopped working because the driver no longer supported that card (nvidia)

Most of these things are minor issues and can be fixed easily. Major issues were usually because I personally screwed up or because some packages were moved into the repos before their updated dependencies.

All in all, make sure you take care of your system, read the news, merge pacnews and look on the forums for common issues before updating. Your Arch will be surprisingly stable if you keep to that.

termNinja · 2016-02-21 21:27:46

Hello everyone! I've been planning to join the ArchLinux community for some time now and finally I've done it. I moved on from Debian family into Arch and I really love it. You have incredible wiki pages and I really like the fact that Arch is making me learn more and more about Linux with each passing day.

I've fell in love with Linux around 2 years ago, and haven't looked back since. Can't stand Windows anymore at all.

I've installed Arch and KDE Plasma on it, truly enjoying it. I had a few slight problems, but I've solved all of them, except two strange ones (screen flicker from time to time, could be my Ati graphics, and some screen resets on alternate screen when I connect my laptop to a projector).

All in all, very happy to join this incredible community !

Cheers.

PQTran · 2016-02-22 03:31:14

Hi! New to the whole linux experience, so I'm really looking forward to learning lots from this community. I just recently installed ArchLinux and kde plasma. I'll be excited to make the transition to awesome wm in the next few days

I'll try to refrain from asking too many questions haha
but otherwise looking forward to being apart of this community.

willspoke · 2016-02-22 08:50:46

Hello all!

First time posting on a forum. And earlier today was my first time on IRC (ever), where a friendly forum admin at #archlinux made me feel welcome. Many thanks.

I look forward to enjoying this new community that I've discovered.

Regards,

willspoke

x33a · 2016-02-22 12:54:12

willspoke wrote:

Hello all!
First time posting on a forum. And earlier today was my first time on IRC (ever), where a friendly forum admin at #archlinux made me feel welcome. Many thanks.

You must be quite young, I guess. Next stop: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=24166

Trilby · 2016-02-22 13:10:03

x33a wrote:

You must be quite young, I guess

That's a big assumption. My father was in his 60s before he posted on a forum. I don't think my mother ever has.

x33a, perhaps you are quite young to assume one's first use of such technologies would have to be in their childhood

x33a · 2016-02-22 13:30:58

Trilby wrote:

x33a wrote:
You must be quite young, I guess
That's a big assumption. My father was in his 60s before he posted on a forum. I don't think my mother ever has.
x33a, perhaps you are quite young to assume one's first use of such technologies would have to be in their childhood

Damn, didn't even think of it the other way round! Very bad assumption, I admit

11Cats · 2016-02-23 17:15:54

Hi, everybody (In a Dr. Nick voice),

I'm here because I'm about to jump into Arch for the first time. Six months ago I was a Windows 7 user, then I started getting popups to switch to Win 10. I read the user agreement from M$ and was horrified. I switched to Mint Linux with the Cinnamon DE, and realized I loved Linux and have never even used Windows since.

I've made some progress in Bash, and have become more and more interested in the nuts and bolts of my computer and OS. Because of that, I decided to try Arch and learn by doing. I'm going to start by installing Arch in VirtualBox and just going for it. If I mess up, no problem, and hopefully lessons will be learned.

I was made aware of Arch by a problem I had with Mint Linux on my Toshiba L770D laptop - the keyboard would go dead after grub, but before Mint Loaded. Nobody could help me find the solution, but I found help on an Arch Wiki page. (Adding i8042.nomux=1 to my /etc/default/grub in the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" making it: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nomux=1"). I was always thankful for the Arch folks after that, and feel that I just might be ready to step up to the plate and give it my best.

I'm an older guy - got my first training on a 1971 Honeywell 16K magnetic core memory mainframe with two 14" removable platter drives, an optical card reader, and a massive line printer. My first home computer was a Commodore 64 when it first came out, though a friend had a Commodore PET with a chicklet keyboard that gave me the microcomputer bug.

And yes, before anyone asks, I do have 11 cats. -david

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Fred Barclay · 2016-02-23 18:25:22

Hi 11cats. Fellow Minter here--Arch is tough at first but fun and I hope you enjoy it.

dhlmn · 2016-02-25 04:20:05

Hello, I'm a newbie to Arch!

Alfonso Cantos · 2016-02-25 21:24:20

Hello there.

New in the forum, but not with Arch, I have two laptops working, and two raspberry pis and one odroid working with archarm... so all the family is arch based.

Alfonso.

Trinitrotoluene · 2016-02-27 15:51:38

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Texbrew · 2016-02-28 05:00:04

Hello Janusz,

From one forum newbie to another, welcome. Enjoy your new Arch system, I hope you have fun with it.

tex

Arctic-tern · 2016-02-28 15:14:52

I installed Arch yesterday and I love it. I have the feeling that I've built my own system and that I'm in control.

I had Ubuntu before and now I think it was too complicated . In Arch everything is simple. I like that.

bossleosun · 2016-02-29 20:45:02

Well Hello eveyone!

I've been jumping distos for a couple of years now. And using Linux only when on a whim. I've been predominantly a Windows PC user since it's still the best platform for gaming. But recently - with Windows 10 - Microsoft has become ever more intrusive, so I finally took the plunge and installed linux. I've heard alot of great things about Arch so I went ahead and installed it.

Been on Arch for 5 days now and so far everthing thing is going fine. I'm such a newbee that I have to keep searching for the commands to use on terminal but I'm sure I'll get a hang of things sooner or later.

drcouzelis · 2016-03-01 13:49:55

Welcome.

bossleosun wrote:

I've been predominantly a Windows PC user since it's still the best platform for gaming.

There is NO QUESTION that Windows is still the best platform for computer gaming, but it blows my mind that there are now 2000 games for Steam on Linux. Thinking back to the turn of the century, it seemed like all we had was Nethack and Tux Racer!

macstar3000 · 2016-03-01 14:22:58

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
bossleosun wrote:
I've been predominantly a Windows PC user since it's still the best platform for gaming.
There is NO QUESTION that Windows is still the best platform for computer gaming, but it blows my mind that there are now 2000 games for Steam on Linux. Thinking back to the turn of the century, it seemed like all we had was Nethack and Tux Racer!

indeed, there has been a lot of progress thanks to steam. and i am a guy who just needs one proper racing game and grid autosport is ennough for me. but yeah i fully understand those who have their special games and as long as they are not on linux yet .... could never imagine to have work (office, mail, web, etc.) on windows though.

GugaDozero · 2016-03-01 20:35:38

Hello everyone... My name is Gustavo and i'm arch user since a few weeks ago, i'm really enjoying it. Nice community too.

baffometo · 2016-03-03 09:48:28

Hi people im new here in Arch World i just installed this OS in two PCs and this is awesome im learning alot and i want to become part of translate team (as my first step) then become a TU but as many of u already know for some reason the sign up page aint working so i created my forum acount in order to get more familiar with this new world.

Im from El Salvador, Central America

Greetings to everyone!

Have a Tux Day!

arcctgx · 2016-03-03 19:36:00

Hello world!\n

I'm a long time Slackware and Gentoo user who wants to try something new. I'm very comfortable with these distributions, but I decided to step out of my confort zone to learn some new things about modern Linux by using Arch.

I'm also a very stubborn perfectionist who likes his Linux to behave just the right way, so you can expect some oddly specific questions from me.

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gameboy9309 · 2016-03-03 22:30:13

Hi! I'm pretty new here, and to Linux in general. A few weeks ago, after waiting a long time for a new laptop, I finally got one, and put Ubuntu on it. That was my first distro. So I stuck with that for a while, but it started to get really slow. So I started looking for other distros. I found Manjaro, which was awesome, but there was something I didn't like about it. (I forgot what it was.) So then I tried Antergos, which I didn't care much for because something was wrong with Xfce in that distro. So finally, I decided to try out Mint, which is still awesome, but I got bored with it, and was really wanting to install Arch. So after a few failed attempts, I'm running Arch with LXDE. And it's really awesome. I plan on sticking with Arch for a long time.

Here's a screenshot of my desktop:

http://2.1m.yt/d2y9a83.png

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x33a · 2016-03-04 05:54:38

@gameboy9309,

welcome to the forums. Please go through the following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

Also, we have a dedicated sub-forum for posting screenshots and sharing configurations. You screenshot would be better suited under a thread there.

MrSmith · 2016-03-04 11:50:34

Hi guys, just joined the international forum, but already an Arch user since 2010. Great distro, awesome wiki and the best community!

Cheers!

benoitldr · 2016-03-04 12:28:14

Hey everybody,

I am new user of archlinux but user of linux (debian) since more than 10 years, and I have to say that I am really impressed by the quality of the community (documentation is complete and extremely cleared) and the distribution.

So as to learn quickly archlinux I passed my 3 machines (1 server, 1 laptop and 1 pc) on arch.

Cheers !

photec2 · 2016-03-04 14:14:55

Hello!! New Arch user here, I have bounced around from Windows -> Mac -> Ubuntu, back to Windows but have now settled into Arch and I am liking it so far. I'm not really sure what my goals are yet but I plan to customize my system and do some Web Development on the side, I'm really excited to see where this takes me.

Arch Linux

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