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tadzik

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From: &tadzik

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 91

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

So, I'll contribute to this to-be-the-longest thread ever Here is Ted, migrated from Gentoo as the compilation was a bit tiring to me, and the distro was a bit to sophisticated (simplicity *does* matter). I've used Arch couple of months ago but I was quite dissatisfied with stability. Now it's a lot better, though methinks there are too many things in AUR that I think should be even in extra (as rails, damn, it's a shame imho). Anyways, hello everyone!

onthenickel

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From: Earth

Registered: 2009-06-20

Posts: 14

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi everyone.  I live in the US, I have not used linux before, but over the years I have messed around on unix servers and of course have some old Mac OSX computers I have played around on.  I need a unix-like operating system, but I can't afford the Mac hardware, so I decided to try Linux.  I am trying Arch because a friend of mine from Norway recommend it to me.  He has a very practical philosophy, and right away I can see that Arch has a practical philosophy that I really appreciate.

PhilosopherStoned

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Registered: 2009-07-20

Posts: 1

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Greetings and Salutations!   I've been using Ubuntu for six months and decided that I would switch to Arch because doing so will force me to learn systems administration more than Ubuntu.  I look forward to getting to know it. I feel like I'm going through linux puberty It might be ugly.

TomWitko

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From: Canada

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 143

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello

I said hello before but now I am now an official Arch user as I just got my Arch system up and running. Posting in it now.

Sweet so far.

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t4k1t

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Registered: 2009-07-19

Posts: 123

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Hello everyone

At first I tried some other distros like Ark, Suse, Mandriva and Gentoo, but ended at Ubuntu with KDE 3.5 and was kind of happy with it.
After nearly 2 and a half  years with Ubuntu I installed Arch and never wanted to go back xD
A few days ago I installed Arch the 2nd time on my notebook and even though I made some dumb mistakes nearly everything is working now.
At the moment I'm working at my openbox configuration and realise that the last 4 sentences all started with an A.

So I hope for many more happy hours with my Arch :-)

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pdxken

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From: Oregon, USA

Registered: 2009-07-16

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello archlinux folks.
My name is Ken from Oregon, USA. This is my first post here.
I have Kubuntu linux kde4 on another partition but after reading about arch on the kubuntu forums I decided to give arch a try.
After download and install it booted OK but xorg caused hard lockup. I tried everything I could find in wiki and forums but nothing helped so I got discouraged and went back to kubuntu for a few days.
Then yesturday (2009-July-21) I decided to boot arch and try one more time. First thing was to update everything and I noticed xorg was updated. So, startx and just like magic kde4 is up and running. I am now posting with arch running. YES!!, FAR OUT, GROOVY, COOL!!
Who ever fixed xorg or what ever did it; Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!
My biggest motivator for trying Arch is to learn more about the ins and outs of the NIX os. Just to install is a good start.
Thanks. Ken

tolstoi

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 7

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello everyone,

just installing Arch for the first time. Really looking forward to it. My main box is running with Gentoo and I want Arch right next to it .

Cheers

Joerg

Arch.Ben

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 13

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Hello i am new to Arch decided to move from Ubuntu to Arch, yes i know i should have just started out with Arch. I am currently in college going after a Network Specialist degree. I am learning and will learn something new about Arch and from what i can tell it is going to be a great switch

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,232

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Back in post 585 I first posted to this forum.  I have my new machine up  and I am posting this from my shiny new Arch Box.  So far so good -- its like Gentoo without the long compile cycles.

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sheldork

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 8

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hey!

After a coupld of days of reading through the wiki and the forums my little Lenovo S10e is starting to look pretty neat, thanks to Arch.

Last edited by sheldork (2009-07-24 23:48:41)

Greenstuff

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 64

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

I wanted to wait untill I set up most of my system. I'm new to arch, and so far it's great, thanks for all the support and the great distro. It runs great on my computer so far!

ahndoruuu

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 10

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Hello, world! ;D

Just recently switched to Arch, having difficulties setting up wireless but what's the fun of an OS if it works out of the box? It destroys learning opportunities.

abstrakct

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Registered: 2009-07-28

Posts: 35

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi!
I'm currently installing Arch on my stationary, after hearing the people on reddit.com/r/linux raving about it (thanks, redditors!) So I checked it out, loved the philosophy and now as I'm installing it I think I'm having a so-called "nerdgasm"

I started to use linux in the mid-90s, when Slackware 3 (or maybe an earlier version) was the latest & greatest. A cousin helped me install it, and from then on I had found my computer heaven. A lot of time was spent at the command line (bash), configuring the network, installing X, compiling stuff, compiling stuff that wasn't even written for linux, but worked still (sometimes with some tweaking), learning to program C, etc. I still remember the first time I compiled my own kernel! - and regularly updating it with the latest patch.. This was back in the 2.0.xx days I think.

I've tried a lot of different distros the last years (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Sabayon, Gentoo, eLive, etc), but never been really satisified, because, well, it hasn't been the same as before! Sure it looks pretty, and works great and all is well, but so much is hidden from the user and sometimes it (paradoxically) takes a lifetime of searching to find out how to change the simplest configuration bit. A gazillion configuration files is in my mind too any. And Ubuntu and all those big distros are certainly great, especially for those who want an OS which works, and works well, but to me they're just too big and impossible to understand - I wanted back to the basics and decide myself what I want and how I want it. And since Arch Linux exists, I'm obviously not alone! That's the kind of linux I learned to love, and still love.

I once tried to do a Linux From Scratch, but that proved to be too much work. I might attempt it again someday. Until then, Arch seems to be the perfect middle road between the two extremes - total transparency and everything open, but you don't need to do absolutely *everything* from scratch. I really love the Arch philosophy!

I evidently chose a slow mirror, because the packages are downloading a bit slowly, but that gave me time to check out the forums and write this post.

Oh, and thanks for the great beginners guide to installing arch linux, it explains every step very well and so far everything has been pure joy!

The package downloading is finished now, gotta go configure the system, will probably post here later

callinyouin

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello, I am new to Arch.
I have been using linux for a few years and have decided to experiment outside of my comfort zone.
Ubuntu-based distros have been my distros of choice for a couple of years (Xubuntu and Crunchbang) and have used Debian on and off as well. Have ppc port of Debian on an old eMac for extra geek points.

I've come to Arch in order to build a lightweight distro, and not because I have aging hardware (well, I do, but it is not the case with the machine I'm putting Arch on). I simply find that most distros have far too much bloat for my purposes. I prefer to use Openbox with lxpanel on the desktop, which is why I enjoy Crunchbang, a great distro by the way.

So far, so good, although I have run into a minor problem that I hope can be solved here on the forums.

-callinyouin

Darrel

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Registered: 2009-07-29

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

HI everyone

noone

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Registered: 2009-08-02

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

hi!

woeye

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From: Munich, Bavaria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 10

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Greetings everyone!

Lome time Linux user here. But also a great fan of FreeBSD and NetBSD (for the server side). Came across ArchLinux several days ago. Used Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo before. But ArchLinux gives me the right mix of flexibility, being up-to-date and KISS. Many kudos to the developers and the great community!

- woeye

allenborder

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 3

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello everyone ! !
I am new on this forum.My name is Allen.I am 29 year old.
I am happy to be a part of this forum...

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NovaAesa

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Registered: 2009-08-09

Posts: 6

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi all,

Posting from down under (that's Australia to you). I've been using Linux for about 2 years now, mostly Ubuntu so most of this tricky stuff that you get to do yourself with Arch has been done for me in the past. I've been trying to get Arch installed for the last few days, hopefully I will be there soon. Hopefully I will learn much more about Linux in the process!

-Nova

shx

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Registered: 2009-08-09

Posts: 5

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Man, I just switched from Zenwalk to Archlinux and it's great - fast, simple and stable. That's exactly what I needed ;)

Btw. huge, standing ovation for the people responsible for Wiki - that's the best set of articles, instructions and manuals I have ever seen and it's actually one of the reasons that I switched to Arch. Once again, large beer for that only ;)

Peace!
shx

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bhadotia

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From: Karnal, India

Registered: 2008-12-09

Posts: 87

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Oh... didn't see this thread when I was new here... but as I'm still a noob...

HELLLLLOOOOOOO!

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nvivo

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Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi, I'm new to Archlinux. Have been using linux for some time.

I started with Slackware and LFS, went to Gentoo and have been using Kubuntu/Ubuntu for about 2 years now. Since Kubuntu has been very problematic lately, (broken packages, audio problems), and Gnome simply sucks for me, someone suggested ArchLinux as a good KDE distro.

After some reading, took 1 weekend  to understand and fully setup my arch linux on my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, and I'm simply amazed on how simple it is. Had some problems in the way, but the wiki is very useful and helped me solve all of them, and netcfg is one of the best things I have ever seen, simple, direct... it does exactly what I need to do. The last time I needed to connect to a wireless network on ubuntu out of X, I had a headache...

My KDE 4.3 is much faster than it was on Ubuntu, all my hardware works fine... probably all the "auto detect" on ubuntu doesn't work always as desired. Its great to be able to specify exactly what I want to load.

Slackware required too much manual work, Ubuntu was too automatic. Archlinux is the best of both worlds.

Congratulations to all of you who have been creating / contributing to this distro!

Archlinux is a masterpiece.

dezza

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 126

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

I don't think I have replied to this yet, but here I go;

HELLO EVERYONE xD

CHORUSS

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 1

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What to say... using standard Un*x text mode utilities such as fdisk/cfdisk during installation instead of crippled graphic monsters is awesome! I hope the philosophy will stay focused on pure software upstreams and "from the scratch configuration" :-) I try to give some support and contribute to Arch in various ways if I found the Arch way really in place. Hi all!

le1um

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Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 3

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello World!!
And Hello Everyone!

I'm the new user of ArchLinux, and I have to say, that amazing system!
I think that I will find many interesting people and friends who share
my passion what here there is Arch !!

Regards EveryOne :-)