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kinder

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Registered: 2025-12-02

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Hi Everyone,

I've used Garuda and Manjaro for the last 2 years, that was an easy go. The complete manual installation increased my interest to go for the Vanilla Arch linux. Installed just two days back, went through some screwing up of mind but it was a great experience overall. Post installation things are still pending.
Good to go.

KirklandsQQ

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Registered: 2025-12-04

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Hey everyone, new to arch from windows. Absolutely love it, I' am teaching myself bash but if anyone has any resources I have limited to no programming skills.

system72

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Registered: 2025-11-22

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welcome Kirklands, https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible this is a good resource for learning posix

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Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

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Hey everyone, new to arch from windows. Absolutely love it, I' am teaching myself bash but if anyone has any resources I have limited to no programming skills.

I'm currently learning python3 via ChatGPT5

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amber1988

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2025-11-27

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I'm currently learning python3 via ChatGPT5

ChatGPT is a good resource, but it’s not always the best. It sometimes has a tendency to approach things in a roundabout way, or teach stuff as “the industry best practice” that has no practical use except for very niche circumstances. So be aware of that.

I found this out the hard way when using ChatGPT to brush up on current HTML and CSS standards, after having been out of the HTML/CSS world since 2010. Because of my previous experience I knew what questions to ask to mitigate some of that. But even then, it led me down the wrong path regularly. And this was between January and October this year. So not that long ago.

Virus1x

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Registered: 2025-12-03

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Hey everyone, xVirus here—finally trying out Arch! I'm excited to learn, probably mess things up, fix them again, and grow with you all.

Kayos

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Registered: 2025-11-30

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Hello all

I've just installed Arch on my Surface Pro 4. I run a SP 7+ with different Linux daily but the SP4 was slow when new so wanted to build a distro up rather than try stripping one back

I'm an arch noob I guess, I did try it when it was new but it wasn't for me, I've been using Linux a long time

Because I only have wireless I chrooted into the new install and installed the surface kernel and WiFi firmware so it worked on first reboot

al-dono

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Registered: 2025-12-08

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Hello!

I wanted to say, I use Arch btw

My first time installing Linux/Ubuntu. without the graphical, I wiped out my entire windows partition. Never regretted that, as result, I am confident to say I can install any Linux distro.
I started with Ubuntu, tried Kali Linux, switch back Ubuntu, then Debian (since 2020  with same machine), Now I am changing machine, and I was like "let me try Arch Linux".

If I ever got bored of Arch I will probably create my own distro.

cheers!!

system72

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Registered: 2025-11-22

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If I ever got bored of Arch I will probably create my own distro.

from scratch or from an existing distro

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trimness

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Registered: 2025-12-10

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Hello I got into arch a month or two ago and finally got around to signing up. I actually have very little computer experience but I figured it out haha.

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Gefest

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Registered: 2025-12-13

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Finnaly i am here to say hello. Using arch at home, at work, at phone, at brain, at heart, etc. for a while, but it's first time i writing...

Have good day! <3

carrieanne

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Registered: 2025-12-16

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Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

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OK.
You win.

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myprettygaythrowaway

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Registered: 2025-12-17

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Hey there, I have the same username on Reddit, posting here for help with an issue I've had for almost a week. Been using Arch for maybe 2y, but frankly? Only still on it due to time constraints; by the time I realised Arch wasn't really for me, it'd become more inconvenient to move all my data & install something else. Nice distro, but not what I'm looking for, turns out. Oh well, nice meeting you all!

system72

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Registered: 2025-11-22

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reddit

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myprettygaythrowaway

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Registered: 2025-12-17

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reddit

You seddit!

Mzee

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Registered: 2025-12-18

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Hi

I am new to archlinux (1week now) but not new to linux. I have used kali, ubuntu then back to windows. Then I decided why not try Arch? I've always heard it's the hardest let me see what it's got. And so here I am.

Hope to make my own desktop environment then work my way up.

Wish me luck

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system72

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Registered: 2025-11-22

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Then I decided why not try Arch? I've always heard it's the hardest let me see what it's got. And so here I am.

the "hardest" distro to install is gentoo or lfs if you consider that to be a distro, arch is relatively simpler in comparison

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Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

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... Then I decided why not try Arch? I've always heard it's the hardest let me see what it's got. And so here I am.

What makes Arch 'harder' than other distros' is that Arch does things a tad differently than the other distros. In Arch, just about everything is a script. The upside is that once you figure out the Arch Way(TM), it's pretty easy to repair something that's completely debilitating on, let's say, Ubuntu. If something doesn't work, check your scripts, and if that doesn't work, check THE scripts (system). There is a learning curve, but once you figure out the scripting system, Arch is much, much easier. The downside is the learning curve.

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Zulith

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Registered: 2025-12-20

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Hello everyone! Been learning arch for about a month and having a blast.

system72

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Registered: 2025-11-22

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Hello everyone! Been learning arch for about a month and having a blast.

welcome, glad you're enjoying arch :3

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greenclouds

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Registered: 2025-12-01

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Howdy'all!
I've been using arch's documentation for years but just this month decided to finally try it. Overwrote my win11 HTPC with it. I had never even asked for win11, it was just there "welcoming" me one morning, with no driver for my new printer.
I'm in love with arch and want to send my gratitude to the community. I had always heard that arch would restore my virginity but those rumors are overstated IMO.

My out-of-the-box experience has been flawless using KDE-plasma-wayland. I got steam installed and running with a single command and have played through FarCry5 at hi-res, well, I mean I don't have patience for the final boss battle, I'm just so impressed it works at all.
Three cheers for all of us!

krakalackin

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Registered: 2025-12-22

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Hey everyone, new to arch from windows. Absolutely love it, I' am teaching myself bash but if anyone has any resources I have limited to no programming skills.

Learn Linux TV on YouTube has a great tutorial series on Bash scripting.

Learn Linux TV - Bash Scripting on Linux

krakalackin

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Registered: 2025-12-22

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"Hello, Hi, Welcome!" is what I'm notorious for saying, first thing, in every standup meeting.

Hello All, I'm Rob, obviously new to the forum. I, like most folks posting here, am fairly new to Linux. I've played with Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint and Oracle Linux. I started my Linux journey way back in 2008 with Ubuntu, but it didn't stick. About 3-4 years ago I heard about Linux Mint and tried it. What a great introduction to Linux that is. Great for people who have zero experience. I've been a life long Windows user and have been using a Mac for the past 5 years.

Fast forward to today, I've been bouncing between Fedora and Arch the past couple of months and have decided to go with Arch. I love the minimal install and the freedom to make your OS/environment what you want. I'm really enjoying reading the wiki and I'm looking forward to learning from the community here and contributing where I can.

-Rob

hikingferal

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Registered: 2023-09-16

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Hi everyone, I just managed to successfully install Arch Linux manually following the wiki for the first time ever and I’m chuffed. I got it on my second try. I had been distro hopping for months and I used some really nice distros but all of them either lacked something I wanted (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed / Leap 16, or were full of stuff I didn't (Ubuntu, Fedora). I had been using Ubuntu LTS because of official ROCM support but I spent so much time trying to solve Ubuntu specific freezing / crashing issues (wow, so stable), I realised I could have just learnt to install and use Arch in that time. I'm really liking Arch and the choices it gives me, the freedom to install what I want and nothing more and especially the performance! I'm considering a small partition of something other than Ubuntu LTS for official ROCM support, maybe Rocky Linux.