The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Amnesya · 2012-04-11 23:30:32

es20641 wrote:

Amnesya wrote:
Hi everyone,
been using Arch for a year now, mostly lurking around, but finally I reactivated my forum account and decided to help the fantastic arch-community thrive even more!
Welcome Amnesya, I hope you enjoy your stay

Hey es20641, from what I've seen so far, I think I will

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cornelus · 2012-04-12 15:07:33

Hello to all!

I've been using Linux for about two years now, hopping from Ubuntu 10.04 -> Ubuntu 10.10 -> Fedora 15 -> openSUSE 12.1 -> openSUSE 11.4 -> Fedora 16 -> Ubuntu 12.04 Beta -> Fedora 16, and now finally trying Arch. Took me about two weeks to get it working properly inside a VM, but it sure felt great when I got it right. Now I'm waiting for the first opportunity to install it on my real hardware.

I came to Arch because I believe in The Arch Way. I also like the rolling release system, since formatting my PC every 6 months is starting to become a pain. Oh, and how can one talk about Arch and not mention the great documentation?

I'm pretty sure I have found my Linux /home now.

es20641 · 2012-04-12 16:29:02

tancrackers wrote:

Note: What finally drove me from opensuse was this strange bug where the panels (no matter what DE) would freeze and become unclickable. Not on Arch!
I have tried just about every major distro from Debian to Mint to an absolute failure of a Gentoo install (I got to downloading the source and gave up). I am glad to be on the Arch train!

Hello tancrackers!

I've never used opensouse before, I am currently running Mint (Debian version) and Arch on two seperate HD's.
I'm glad things are less painful for you now, hopefully you'll stick with Arch

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ashleylharnett · 2012-04-12 19:54:50

Hullo all,

I've been reading about Arch for a while now but only plucked up the courage to take the proverbial plunge this evening. So, as the install completes on my laptop I thought I'd sign up to the forum using my other machine. I've been on Ubuntu and Mac OSX variously over the past years and thought it was time to step-up and craft my own system.

Let the learning curve commence!

es20641 · 2012-04-12 20:22:03

ashleylharnett wrote:

Hullo all,
I've been reading about Arch for a while now but only plucked up the courage to take the proverbial plunge this evening. So, as the install completes on my laptop I thought I'd sign up to the forum using my other machine. I've been on Ubuntu and Mac OSX variously over the past years and thought it was time to step-up and craft my own system.
Let the learning curve commence!

Welcome ashleylharnett!
Good luck learning Arch! It's a great system for getting to know how all the pieces fit together.

ashleylharnett · 2012-04-12 22:04:13

es20641 wrote:

Welcome ashleylharnett!
Good luck learning Arch! It's a great system for getting to know how all the pieces fit together.

I am loving it already, am now using my Arch machine, not a single problem so far thanks to the excellent wiki and a really involved community on here. *makes mouse-like noises of excitement*

sonoran · 2012-04-12 22:31:04

R09UE-RAVEN wrote:

...been using Arch for a couple months now. Been keeping it contained in a virtual box so far...

Set your Arch free! --Arch Liberation Front

bisc0tte · 2012-04-13 07:50:37

Hello everyone,

Linux beginner here, only tried some major distributions (Ubuntu and Fedora) for a few months.

I am learning a ton of things everyday, thanks to the excellent wiki and forum!

~bisc0tte

CairX · 2012-04-13 14:17:09

Hello everybody!

I'm a brand new ArchLinux users here. My Linux experince before this is only based on running a few months of Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. Otherwise I'm raised with Windows forced on me (because of no knowledge of anything else) so that is my base of references... sadly enough. However at my new job I'm running OS X, which gives me a pretty good comparison between "the big three" and I find that pretty interesting.

So far loving the Arch community documentation on Wikis but also in forum posts it's just unbeatable!

Many Thanks to all you people who have written these guides, manuals, answer questions, keep everything up to date and overall help all us noobs, it's much appreciated!

23dornot23d · 2012-04-13 15:45:02

Hi everyone ....

I use my computer for 3D and with Arch being really fast on my older desktop machine
I decided to make a change from Ubuntu and use Arch as my main 3D platform ..... on 2 laptop machines.
I do animations using Gimp - taking frames from Blender and make them into gif files.

At the moment .... I have just upgraded two systems successfully last week ...... one is connected by ethernet

But yesterday - the second system was cut off from the Net - due to a upgrade - atheros problem on kernel 3.3.1

I have joined the forum to find a proper fix for this - as wireless and networking = my worst nightmare ......

I have read the wiki on downgrading - but would prefer to just swap the kernel back to 3.2.14 before logging out and re-booting the system while I still have my wireless access ( as there is no other way to connect this machine )

Glad to be a member here now ty .

asymmetros · 2012-04-14 15:06:25

Hello everyone! I am using linux for about 2 years now, usually dual-booting with different distros in my laptop. A good tactic to find your way around. It is true that anyone can find a distro that better suits him, but there is no a distro equally good for everyone.
My first installation was ubuntu but i left it (merely by instinct) after a week or so for Mint. LMDE and Debian were my persistent friends for all those years. Salix and Archbang proved themselves the better alternatives to those.
My favourites are Xfce, KDE, Openbox (depending on my mood). The funny thing is that i rarely used any distro's default settings and arrangements: in Salix xfce for example, i was using “my” openbox instead of Xfce, in Archbang i was using Xfce, in LMDE KDE or E17. Not to mention the “default” applications, the “gui's” and so on.
So, after reading the “Arch Way”, i decided to build my own setup, following the fine manual and here i am, using Arch Linux for a month now and i am very happy of it.

sealclubber · 2012-04-16 15:50:29

Durzo wrote:

Greetings! I'm new to Linux, and picked up Arch as my first distro. I know it may not be the best choice, but my goal is to learn linux and it's command line, not how to use a GUI based desktop environment.
Secretly ..... I hope to eventually pick up a Linux+ cert from CompTIA! ... muahahaa!

It's easy bro. Really really easy. Go through a bunch of commands and you will be fine. Also, for the fill in the blank questions, the location of the file is always in /etc/, otherwise its in /var/spool/mail

matutter · 2012-04-16 19:26:17

Hi everyone!
I joined because I'm tired of all the crap that comes packaged with most distros - and underwhelmed with how the 'minimal' distros work. So I decided to start doing my stuff with Arch. So far I like it a lot as a virtual server but i'd like to do more. I'm a computer science student and... stuff so.. HI!

BPearce · 2012-04-16 20:15:23

Hi Everyone,

I've had Arch installed for just over six months now; and it works! It doesn't give me junk about updating every six months while writing off my computer + internet connection for a day while it does update, and it is soooo much better now I know exactly what is running and when it starts and stops.

Just like to say thanks to all the authors of the posts I was reading while getting up and running; they were too numerous to thank individually; everything is very well documented.

Best,

Brad

zwl · 2012-04-16 20:21:10

My name is Zach. I moved to Arch from OSX Lion. I love the ability Arch gives me to control my own destiny. I am amazed at how well Arch is documented and supported by its community. Nice to join the community and contribute to the length of this thread!

Misfit138 · 2012-04-17 00:21:17

Welcome, new members.
I encourage all to get involved, contribute and enjoy!

Androidz · 2012-04-17 01:29:43

Hello, I'm Robert.
I'm on ArchLinux, because i like everything fast, cars, phones, solutions
I have RHCE, C|EH certification.
I'm using Archlinux for over 3 years now, and never signed up to the forums, cause most problems are easy to solve, even ones im confused about,
Maybe I can help others with similair problems here, I have 2 Dedicated servers running archlinux for gamehost, web, and video editing/converting.
1: Dual AMD(R) Opteron(TM) 6272 @ 2,1GHz, 32 cores (64GB) x86_64 (Running 6 Headless Virtual machines) + Apache (cmd/webmin/cpanel)
2: Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) E5630 @ 2,53GHz 8/16 (16GB) (Packet Mirror)(cmd/webmin)

2 PC's each running Archlinux KDE Desktop
1 Netbook running KDE Desktop (Netbook Workspace)

Even some old ones that i keep hidden in the closet running arch incl flux and lxde, So the only thing I would like to say to the devs keep up the great work

Regards,

Leajon · 2012-04-17 11:35:09

I'm newbie here.
just say hello for the longest thread .

/dev/zero · 2012-04-17 19:28:40

Leajon wrote:

I'm newbie here.
just say hello for the longest thread .

For the image game thread?

barkley128 · 2012-04-18 09:22:38

Hello,

I could be a so called Arch noob

I've been using Arch from time to time over a month now, didn't really have time to discover it more.
The main reason I was going to Arch was that I looked for a lightweigh unbloated fast linux distro it seemed a reasonable choice. Before Arch I used Gentoo, which I decided to abandon, because package installing was ridiculesly slow, due to compiling every package from source. I wanted to use newest packages, so I went to unstable branch, which of course had regular updates that took forever

Now I'm a happy arch user I just love the package management, it's so easy and fast and the system runs smooth too, finally without that awful compiling.

huamma · 2012-04-20 10:55:11

Hi there!

I've discovered Arch Linux while I was seeing some screenshots and found the awesome DWM! So I decided to trying to install Arch in my MacBook Pro. Right now I have Ubuntu 12.04 beta.

Oh, I'm spanish and I'm a web developer. I've been a PHP coder since I was in high school (like 8 years ago) but right now I'm learning python and Django. Hope to write correct english and have a lot of fun with more people here!

Cheers from Spain!

teehog · 2012-04-21 04:55:51

So, hello, archlinux~~~~~~~
It's so great!!!!!!! to be here!!!!!!!

I'm here!!!!!!
and I wouldn't expect any reply though~~

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bmbaker · 2012-04-22 11:00:35

Hi there :-)
just became a arch user after being on ubuntu :-)
just wanted to say hi and thhank you for the well organised posts and wiki :-)
cheers
BB

freddy · 2012-04-23 11:08:33

Hello,

after using Debian for a year I've now installed Arch and I'm really enjoying it.

Greets Freddy

tuxybuzz13 · 2012-04-24 11:21:31

Hey all,
I've been using Ubuntu so far (mixed with a couple of other distros, but I always kept going back to Ubuntu because of the ease of apt-get) but then I tried arch and I love pacman. Not to mention I get rid of all the bloat.
Greetings
Tanmay

Arch Linux

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