The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Texbrew · 2016-10-10 14:54:11

Hi Ricky, glad to see another Texan joining the forum. I think "learning more from Arch Linux" is a very common theme among all of us.

tex

annadekiel · 2016-10-11 09:58:51

Hello,

I am new here, all the best for everyone!

ezli · 2016-10-13 01:38:03

howdy...ezli here....noob to Arch...been playing with Ubuntu for some time...just installed Manjaro on my laptop....figured out the registration form in 15 minutes....don't use those commands much...had to look them all up

czechmate3 · 2016-10-13 02:13:53

New here too. Just saying hi.

runical · 2016-10-13 07:49:19

Welcome all and good luck with Arch!

ezli wrote:

just installed Manjaro on my laptop....

Please note that Manjaro is not Arch and direct all Manjaro related questions to the Manjaro forums

bstard · 2016-10-14 18:51:37

Hi from Switzerland

I'm currently in the process of expanding my mind with some linuxing and as I used to fiddle with suse and redhat before I thought I'm ready for a new challenge...but it seems that I'm not...
as you will see in my noobquestions thread

cheers

Texbrew · 2016-10-14 20:11:02

@bstard, Hello from a Texan who is of Swiss heritage - four generations back.

Sorry I can't help you with UEFI & encrypted hard drive (from your other post), I have no experience with those. I noticed you got no answers as yet, maybe a kind linux guru can help. If not, persistence on your part will get you there, I'm sure.

Welcome to the forum from just another Arch enthusiast.

tex

patrick.bucher · 2016-10-15 08:17:44

Hi, I'm Patrick from Switzerland, and I'm also new here.
I first installed Arch Linux this summer on an extremely cheap laptop, after I failed with Debian. It took me some work to get everything running in the first place (the problem was related to the boot loader and UEFI/Legacy boot mode and partitions), but then I was never so happy with any OS. And the documentation is also great.
Yesterday I got a little Dell OptiPlex 7040 box and installed Arch right away. It works great except one little error message right after login, but that belongs to another thread.
I'm using X and DWM (see: suckless.org) as a desktop, which uses the resources most efficiently.

Burlesqueballer · 2016-10-15 08:24:48

Hello everyone! I was using Kali Linux for the longest time, and once they did some official upgrade my repository source list broke and rather try to fix it, I decided i'll step up my game and try the most advanced user Distro! Ok, I admit the Arch linux logo looks pretty cool too

Arch1525 · 2016-10-15 14:30:06

Hello,i'm a former distrolooker who started with ubuntu 14.10.1 (too hard for me then),went to linux mint,used Ubuntu GNOME for a bit and then started using Arch on my trusty linux-testing Dell Inspiron 1525. It was a hard start but i began to really like this distro and found out my own solutions to my problems. So that leads to now, when i am typing this comment on the Arch install on the Inspiron.

Texbrew · 2016-10-15 21:29:22

Congratulations, fellow newbies. You have succeeded in getting an Arch Linux box up and running. This proves we can read, follow instructions, and that we are persistent (or stubborn) in our quest for the perfect distro. If I used smilies, I'd use one here. Is Arch the perfect distro? I dunno, I think it is, until I break something. Then, like last night, I think, "Gosh, get some sleep and deal with it later". My antique ps/2 keyboard and mouse quit working after a full system upgrade. Admittedly, not a huge deal, USB keyboard/mouse work, so that machine isn't dead in the water. My inner geek will surely prevail...

Welcome to the forum and have fun with Arch!

tex

Edit: It's fixed! But it was more due to my inner stubborness than my geekery. I posted about my fix here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218328

Last edited by Texbrew (2016-10-17 23:35:29)

drcouzelis · 2016-10-17 13:54:55

Burlesqueballer wrote:

Ok, I admit the Arch linux logo looks pretty cool too

Confession time. I chose to use Arch Linux mostly because I thought the logo looked cool.

runical · 2016-10-17 13:57:18

drcouzelis wrote:

Burlesqueballer wrote:
Ok, I admit the Arch linux logo looks pretty cool too
Confession time. I chose to use Arch Linux mostly because I thought the logo looked cool.

Doesn't everybody?

SanskritFritz · 2016-10-17 14:44:30

runical wrote:

drcouzelis wrote:
Burlesqueballer wrote:
Ok, I admit the Arch linux logo looks pretty cool too
Confession time. I chose to use Arch Linux mostly because I thought the logo looked cool.
Doesn't everybody?

No. I chose it because Arch is the best

Texbrew · 2016-10-17 23:25:57

I would never allow myself to be seduced by eye candy, but I gotta admit the Arch logo is pretty cool.

pediocore · 2016-10-18 08:06:30

First installed Arch around late 2013 and yes, the logo seduce me well.

PierreG27 · 2016-10-18 23:16:24

Hello all!
Nice to be here!
Iam from Québec,Canada
I did a lot of ubuntu in my last work, but now iam ready to take greater challenge with Arch.

I usually speak french, but i believe i do speak english enough well (i hope)!

See you soon on the forum!

ap0c · 2016-10-19 05:23:20

Hello everyone, just got Arch up and running after about 2 years on Kubuntu.

Got sick of the bloat of Kubuntu and didn't feel like triming it down, felt like starting from scratch.

Been contemplating Arch for awhile... Was running a system update on Kubuntu when a ranom freeze happened (don't know where these freezes were coming from; but others on Ubuntu had reported the same thing & didn't find a fix, but haven't had any of those yet with Arch).

Running i3wm and still reading lots of stuff on the Wiki, and starting to lurk in here. Already learned a lot about Linux, feels nice having a slim and stable system.

patrick.bucher · 2016-10-19 11:44:20

Texbrew wrote:

Congratulations, fellow newbies. You have succeeded in getting an Arch Linux box up and running. This proves we can read, follow instructions, and that we are persistent (or stubborn) in our quest for the perfect distro.

The difference between Arch and Debian for me is: If I messed up my Debian system, I just re-installed it. If I mess up my Arch system, I boot it again from the installation stick, but try to fix the problem there instead of re-installing it. I know what I did during installation, I know where I did what, and I know that it isn't magic, but something well-documented.
I also got my network printer up and running without any GUI configuration tools.

mikaelbrun · 2016-10-20 14:07:45

Hey, everyone!
I have been searching this forum for some time now, and even posted a couple of issues, questions ...

I guess it's time for me to introduce myself.
My name is, as my nick kind of reveals, Mikael Brun. 37 years old from Norway.
I started out with a really short time in ubuntu, mint and all of the other ubuntu derivatives.
I settled down for some time with Fedora, but I wasn't 100% sattisfied with that.

Now I have been using Arch Linux for about two years, and that has given me the freedom to make my OS just as I want it (even though I will never be finished).
Arch Linux has become an adiction to me, and now I am trying to learn some more programming (currently C++).

My choice: Arch Linux and i3wm with i3blocks on top. Tastes good!

Texbrew · 2016-10-20 16:42:21

and that has given me the freedom to make my OS just as I want it

And that's just one of the things many of us think makes Arch so great.

Awebb · 2016-10-20 16:51:25

Hah. Sometimes I think Texbrew should be made our official welcoming committee. You've got a warm welcome for every brave wanderer, it seems!

Texbrew · 2016-10-20 21:11:55

Texbrew sheepishly admits that he hopes he never implies he's the official welcome committee, or "welcome wagon" in these here parts. He just can't resist encouraging those brave wanderers. Your kind comment made him blush a little...

x33a · 2016-10-21 03:24:14

OMG, just as I saw Texbrew's name in the "Last post" column of this thread, I had the same thought, i.e., Texbrew is the (un)official welcomer of our forums. And then I opened the thread...

Don't let our observations deter you from welcoming people here, Texbrew. Our forums can sometimes feel unwelcoming to people, you and others around this thread help dispel that image.

Texbrew · 2016-10-21 05:40:55

Thank you, x33a. In "these here parts", if someone waves to you in passing, you wave back. If someone says, "Howdy", you say, "Howdy". It's a deeply ingrained habit, and I think, a friendly one.

I have seen in other forums, i.e. reddit/r/archlinux - negative comments about this forum. If I can help to as you said, dispel that image, I'm glad to do it.

tex

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