The Official Hello Everyone Thread

min · 2011-05-14 13:06:09

Hi everybody

I will be using arch soon, after my uni semester finished. It will be too risky to reinstall os in the middle of semester. Currently I'm using fedora (for two years). I am drawn to arch by the kiss principle and the rolling release system. And it seems that Arch will give me the chance to learn about linux more.

Min

carukia · 2011-05-15 00:55:54

Hi everyone,

I just finished installing Arch with KDE base a couple of hours ago. I've still got a couple of minor issues to iron out but I'm sure a look through the (excellent) documentation will solve the problems.
I started using Linux in early 2008 and for most of that time I ran Ubuntu and, more recently, Kubuntu. But I wanted to use a distro which would make me learn about how it all works and which would give me the knowledge to solve problems myself rather than relying on other people. Not to mention allowing me to give something back to the Linux community. It's early days yet of course but I think Arch will do that.

Anyway, I just thought I'd say hello

andy.

jgreen1tc · 2011-05-16 01:35:37

chuck_finn wrote:

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After a year of using Arch, this is the first time I've posted to the forums. I think this is a testament to the great Arch Wiki and the vast amount of helpful information available on the forums. The Arch community is one (of many) reason this distro is so awesome. I plan on becoming more active in the forums, giving back and passing on what I've gleaned so far.
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Things like this is what inspired me to get into Arch.

I've been using Windows as long as I've been using computers. But as I got older and realized that Windows isn't the only (or best) way, I decided I wanted to try Linux. I researched and researched and researched on the benefits of Linux and then did more research on which distrobution I should use. I'm talking about reading through the forums of MANY different Linux distributions, reading their manuals, reading what they are about, etc. for a year or so just to make sure Linux is what I wanted and needed. After all that, I knew Arch was the best way for me to go.

I am completely into the Arch Way and love the idea that my computer won't do anything I dont tell it to do and the customization I have. I knew it wasn't necessarily a distro for newbies, but I also love to tinker with things. And the knowledge within the manuals, wikis, guides, IRC, and forums here at Arch make it so easy for me to find answers to my questions that I don't really even have to ask them.

I first installed Arch on a VirtualBox from my Windows laptop last week, and after doing that, I felt EXTREMELY comfortable wiping my laptop HDD and sticking with Arch forever. I still have a few issues to iron out, but I'm having so much fun figuring out how my operating system works. Hopefully I can contribute a lot after I teach myself more about Arch.

tl;dr: Hi

Zenogias · 2011-05-16 06:42:53

chuck_finn wrote:

Howdy,
After a year of using Arch, this is the first time I've posted to the forums. I think this is a testament to the great Arch Wiki and the vast amount of helpful information available on the forums. The Arch community is one (of many) reason this distro is so awesome. I plan on becoming more active in the forums, giving back and passing on what I've gleaned so far.
-Chuck Finn

It's funny. I wanted to post here to praise the Arch Wiki not only for the vast amount of information that I need but how well it's written. And I completely agree that the Arch Community and the Wiki is one of the reason Arch is so awesome.

dragonite · 2011-05-16 07:39:33

Hey this is Lovish from Kanpur,India.

really looking forward for contributing in this community.

TheStoryteller · 2011-05-16 10:56:45

Once upon a time I was intereseted in Linux. I tried several distros, used Suse and Mandrake for a while untiln there was Ubuntu. Ubuntu made me switch completely to Linux. No windows on my machine anymore. I have tried Arch too, but it was not for me yet, I wanted something that just works without the hassle of finding out how everything works. But Ubuntu evolved and that was good. But now Ubuntu made a big step with their new inteface. And I think it's a good step, but not for me. That step made me look again at Arch, from which I knew I would install again when it was the right time for me.

I browsed the wiki and I knew it was the time. Wow,The wiki is great. Probably everything I need to know is there. I grabbed the test iso from May 12th and installed it without a glitch on my netbook. I type this from Arch now. Hello everyone, I'm here to stay.

sipik · 2011-05-16 18:54:09

Hi all!

I finally decided to try something else after several years on Ubuntu. I am a big fan of Linux and I am quite happy that I have to mess up with configuration files and learn new things.

I managed to make most things work with not so much trouble. I am probably keeping Ubuntu as I am sure I have everything set up there that I need for my work. But since everything is ok in Arch as well, I will be sticking with it for the time being. Time will tell if a rolling release is what best suits me.

My first impressions are:
* The wiki is really a big plus! And the active community on the forum seems to be as well.
* Setting up is not really such a big scare as I thought it would be (thanks to all the documentation )
* Performance wise seems qutie smooth, although boot time is not quite as fast as I tought after all necesary daemons are added.

The only thing missing is setting Arch as the default entry in grub (right now is still Ubuntu)

4NG3L · 2011-05-18 19:04:32

Hi Arch community, I started using Linux a few years ago, but I always had the need to use the popular OS that you always have to reinstall because of virus and fragmentations or any other stupid little thing. I try Mandriva, Suse and beryl on It .... Well I needed to use Macromedia and MS software so I had to be far from Linux for a couple of years.

A year ago, One classmate using Suse touch my Linux heart xD and I give a Try to Ubuntu 10.04 .... I finally came to ARCH thanks to Google =p searching for The Best Lightweight Bleeding Edge Distro = ARCH + XFCE4 ... Now I know how to use console, and the real beauty of Linux ... Personalize my desktop, and learn how to configure the software that amazing people develope to every day Use. I love ARCH ... Is great that there is no need to add PPA's to get the last versión of my favorite DE and other kind of Software .

You are a great community I always learn a lot from you

Sorry if i wrote something the wrong way =p English is not my firsts Language.

sylvester · 2011-05-19 11:08:14

Say hello to everyone who deeply likes Arch Linux and agree with its philosophy.
Wish to be your firend, ^-^

Eishorn · 2011-05-19 23:01:45

Hi everyone!
What a great distro
migrated to Arch half a year ago after openSUSE kernel updates left my system unusable several times in a row, never had any severe issues since...
Now I'm the only one to destroy my system

lukaszan · 2011-05-20 11:31:54

Not my first post, but thought I'd echo HelloWorld!

Have been Arch user for almost a month now. Moved over from Slackware after 4 years (I love it, I think it's the best distro, ever, but you need time, and will, to spend hours on end installing, configuring, fixing... Too old for that.).

Other distros I used:
Ubuntu (you never forget your first)
Gentoo (couldn't figure out the ebuilds back then)
Suse (great but too heavy)

Arch seems like a fresh change from Slackware. I like pacman - a nice blend of simplicity and functionality, and a nice repository. Also the community/wiki/forum, although slightly outdated in some places.

Only downside - I think some packages get released too early and stability suffers (but then again, comparing to Slack, it doesn't get any more stable than that).

wolfdogg · 2011-05-21 08:55:10

ahhhhhhhhhhhh,
a breath of fresh air, or, fresh of breath air as i usually say it.

i can breath easy now, now that i have pulled off my dirty reusable diapers, at least thats what it feels like.

i have been using windows since about 1998, i was one of the last techies to get on board with a "windows" pc. since then, i have been trapped. i am a super tech, hardware/networking/software/driver expert, at least i was with windows, and what a headache it was.

i didnt start with windows, i started with 64basic during the times of fortran, cobal, etc.. i was a kid, in a time of a new computer era, and i was a tech at heart, and was lucky that my parents bought me a commodore 64c. i did my share of downloading games on BBS's, but i found myself more and more building programs and word games with the syntax. it grew on me.

once windows came around, i was doomed to a life of GUI.

after years of mastering windows 98/xp/win7, some nt, 2k, i am back. i will add, i NEVER installed or ran a copy of IIS, and way always anti m$. i never purchased a single copy of an operating system in my life, and refuse to do so. i was a WAMP developer, and can soon call myself an official LAMP developer. i program PHP in OOP nowadays, and run apache servers/mysql and have done so for years now.

i have chosen to move on to Linux finally, and i claim this, only because i have had so much fun setting up my Arch box. i have used ubuntu, a couple years ago, but i didn't like it, too simple, too ugly, maybe because i never tweaked it, maybe because it was running on a p2 with 256mb so-dimm, maybe because i could never get my wireless adapter to enroll, or my vzaccess adapter, either way, i scrapped it onto the heap pile(Ubuntu).

now that i have installed arch linux, twice, i am blown away, and my roots are coming back. it appears that my vision has just become clear again. i feel a part of a community that isnt a bunch of dummies that care little about the inner workings of a pc, and like to just crutch a crutch with another crutch, and patch here, and there. its hard to describe, but i felt compelled to share my experience in hopes of reinvigorating those wonderful memories we hopefully all have of the days we felt like programmers in the making.

so now that i feel like im back in the right crowd, i hope you guys go easy on me, because i have been out of the loop for a while. i think we can say that im doing pretty good since this is my first OFFICIAL linux questionairre/post, notice it doesnt have a single question in it, atleast not yet. i had my share of problems yesterday with the new arch install, but i got it up and running, and right now on the 2nd go round (video corruption using geforce 8400 gs and xorg's nv driver and my lack of know how on this subject) i am staring at a screen "errors occurred, no packages were upgraded), lol. back at home!

ok, so hi everybody, and talk to you soon as i join you all in the linux programmers world. sounds newb, but its heartfelt, and 25+yrs programming experience pays off.

litemotiv · 2011-05-21 08:59:49

Merged wolfdogg's thread.

wolfdogg · 2011-05-21 09:13:48

well, i was hoping to get more exposure than page 41, i was saying hello to the regular members, how likely is it that regular members are lurking in the "hello everyone thread"

ewaller · 2011-05-21 17:16:48

wolfdogg wrote:

well, i was hoping to get more exposure than page 41, i was saying hello to the regular members, how likely is it that regular members are lurking in the "hello everyone thread"

Probability = 1.0

And its only page 22 here

musiKk · 2011-05-21 17:40:45

How likely is it that regular members care? Wait... why am I posting here?

Hello everyone! Yeah well. Using Arch exactly half a year now (according to pacman.log). So... happy semi birthday I guess? The funny thing is I'm not really such a die hard Linux guru. Still, extensive documentation and simplicity go a long way and the few problems I occasionally have with pacman are next to nothing compared to the woes I encounter(ed) with other distros.

sheynfinkel · 2011-05-22 00:10:42

Arch Linux rocks!

adlight · 2011-05-22 11:41:36

Hi everybody!

Since I discovered arch, I left behind all other distros.

I like the arch principles, and I'am addicted to pacman

wolfdogg · 2011-05-23 01:28:33

I just felt that this thread had room for improvement when a post ends up at the back of the list of scores of posts, with no end in sight, since theres only one topic allowed for it. i think it ended up page 40 something because i set it to post 40 posts per page eWaller, i think i will make a readjust.

I cant even find my post without clicking through tons of pages, and using a ctrl-f to find. i see it now after posting another comment. was waiting to see if anyone replied. it just didnt feel it was polite to drop my message here, having posted it in general discussion of arch, as it was listed. i was commenting on how i bacame to use arch, and thought it was the most appropriate place after spending about 120 seconds skimming the board descriptions. It feels like the longer post was a waste of time. if i would have know it was have ended up here i would have just said,

HELLO EVERYONE!

sorry to rant, i just feel like as a new user, my story got crammed into somebody elses conversation..

can we try this user help thread in a different fashion, like make a specific welcome board for it, so the new topics list on the welcome board home? personally i like the term "lounge" for a general discussion/off topic board when i moderate.

just my two cents. sorry if i came off wrong. thanks for listening. :-)

p.s. having fun with Arch, im at a bit of an error now, failed to load module noveau, i think i will check to make sure it actually got installed. i was using KDE the other day, but as i mentioned, i got a vid corruption, so i thought i would take the opportunity to start over from scratch and do ti with more detail, and patience. a few more times of that, and i will feel more comfortable without having to follow manuals.

Last edited by wolfdogg (2011-05-23 01:45:50)

verbin · 2011-05-23 12:29:45

Hello, i'm new and Arch Rocks!

spark666 · 2011-05-23 17:37:43

Hi,i`m Spark and i`m Arch`oholic!kiddin

myth · 2011-05-23 23:17:44

Hi! I'm the Batman! NO! I'm not! Just love Arch!

mataraty · 2011-05-25 12:09:00

Hello all,

I am new into Arch this is after 13 years of linux where I used mandrake, redhat, debian, slackware and gentoo.
The last 8 years I was using Gentoo as main OS. The reason I left Gentoo behind is the time i needed to compille basic stuff, even with a high end computer it took multiple hours to set up the system.
The first impression of Arch is possitive and I am getting the hang of Pacman allready.
My main WM is E17 which I use since 2007., sometimes I try a DE like gnome and kde, but everytime I go back to E17 dunno why exactly, I just like it

nathan28 · 2011-05-25 20:26:50

hello world

I started using Ubuntu because I got tired of the 10+ minute boot time and chronic overheating on my XP work machine and was flabberghasted, but not really surprised, that Vista couldn't connect to my $40 router. In fact, I probably spent more time trying to fix that with regedit.exe than I did building Arch on two machines.

Anyway a couple weeks ago I was using an open beta of a linux port of certain niche program, and one of the features (the spell checker) stopped working. Because the port-team had forgot to include the directory, which is fine, stuff happens. But when another user who had "been using Ubuntu for years" wrote "maybe it's something to do with the 64-bit version?" and didn't even think to look in the directory that the error dialog window told him to look in. Then on an Ubuntu blog a writer (not commenter) wrote that using "add-apt-repository ppa:MyFavoriteC++AppPortedToPython/Craptastic' was "a tad bit complicated" for "the average user", I realized that it was time to move on. I went to Mint/Debian and while those are both far better as far as documentation, support, usefulness etc., I wasn't really learning anything, and I could still waste hours browsing PPAs for new, more shiny menu applet icons.

Then I discovered rc.conf and pacman, two of the most potent and surprisingly overlooked narcotics the command line manufactures. Hell, even vi's seemingly ancient command interface finally makes perfect sense to me after making jokes about it for so long.

I'm also a GNOME 2.x orphan temporarily living between KDE's blingasm and LDXE's spartan appearance and in the GNOME halfway-house ("but automagical workspace management is so silky-smooth"), hence an Arch partition bloated with redundant apps ("LibreWriter vs. KWord?" "Gnote vs. BasKet (vs. Taskwarrior)?").

yyfreeman · 2011-05-27 16:34:52

Hello everyone!
Quite interested in it!
Still a long way to go~

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