The Official Hello Everyone Thread

kcirick · 2011-12-30 22:32:40

SunKing2 wrote:

Hi, I'm from Ottawa, Canada and was pleasantly surprised with 2 things: The Beginner's Guide is truly a work of art; every guide should strive to write with such clarity, and I was very impressed with pacman and didn't expect it to do all it does.
I came from using Ubuntu, and I'm converted already after a successful install.

Hi, I live in Ottawa too. I've been using Arch for a while now, and I can promise you that you won't regret the move from Ubuntu!

There is a lot to experiment, so enjoy!

cecilpierce · 2011-12-30 23:32:27

Hi all,
Took me about four times installing Arch, I get it going good and some how mess it up.

rhyvun · 2011-12-31 16:36:24

Hi all!
Yet another Newb, well... kind of.
Been using arch on 3 boxes for a while now just never needed the help of the forums.

The name is pronounced "ri (short I) vun (short U)"

kleskjr · 2011-12-31 18:56:46

Yo!

cfr · 2012-01-01 17:04:05

I finally figured out that this thread was for newbies to say hello as well as to say hello to newbies and now I feel rather rude for having been asking for help without posting here. So I'd like to say a belated hello and a thank you for the help I've already received here, for Arch itself and for the fantastic wiki.

I've only been using Linux since Easter and it took me a long time to actually make it usable. I've been using Linux as my working OS for a couple of months ever since OS X started making me feel seasick (literally - there is something very peculiar wrong with my old OS X install). I was running Debian on my old laptop as I'd looked for a distro which treated PPC as a primary/fully supported architecture. Actually, initially I'd tried Ubuntu which no longer supports PPC but Ubuntu was pretty unbearable on my laptop and the CD wouldn't even boot my mother's old eMac. So I ended up with both PPC machines running Debian with XFCE because Gnome ran like treacle. I had stable on the eMac and testing on the laptop which needed the nouveau drivers to get more than 256 colours. Neither machine worked perfectly but I suspect this is more due to lack of Linux support for secretive hardware and ignorance on my part than anything to do with Debian.

I got a new laptop around November and the eMac got a successor just before Christmas. Neither machine is from Apple. I now had more choice of distro and I decided to try Arch on my own machine because I wanted something more stable than Debian testing but with more current software than Debian stable. I also liked the wiki which has been wonderful and the forums looked genuinely helpful. I'm a little more sceptical about the lack of signed packages and the treatment of bug reports but I know there are moves to address the former and regarding the latter, I'm hoping maybe I've just been unlucky in the particular bugs I've looked at. I'm running KDE on my machine which I basically like despite some oddities and initial problems. I found the support I got in the forums when I couldn't boot with a GPT partition particularly impressive (even though I ended up having to use Ubuntu's installer to figure out the problem in the end). I've been disappointed to note some extremely disparaging comments about other OSs, including other Linux distros, in the forums but pleased to see that these are usually picked up by others and rejected as out of place. If it were not for OS X, I would still be struggling with Windows and Arch would have been significantly more difficult for me to install without access to a Windows box.

I've put Linux Mint on my mother's new machine. I'm not terribly impressed by this so far. This one did boot easily with GPT but it took me about a week to get the graphics to work properly and even now the graphics isn't very satisfactory. That's probably the driver rather than Mint, though. The fact that gnome shell keeps seg-faulting is more of an issue. Also, the machine is convinced it is in China for some reason. But my mother isn't a candidate for Arch and I need something which requires as little technical know-how on a day-to-day basis as possible for that machine. I picked Mint because it has support for a more traditional desktop than Gnome 3 or Unity and because it supports all kinds of codecs out of the box. Those features are critical for my target audience! I have also received useful support in Mint's forums (somebody there told me how to get the graphics working by downloading the latest driver directly from AMD) and the user guide seems nice. I'm not sure the instability I'm seeing is due to Mint rather than maybe hardware being less well supported by Linux generally at this time.

This is definitely much too long for a simple hello!

funky-lich · 2012-01-01 21:30:14

Hey everybody! Happy New Year! I just had a hell of a time registering this morning. Apparently the forum servers think its still week 52, when in fact its week 00.

Hence,
date -u +%W$(uname) | sha256sum | sed 's/\W//g'
returns
b7093e2653b5c2355b6d0bd6c08337c82c3a8f2e10be73ff62b19d7d1f7c0e63
when registration EXPECTs
49b00f6047350392238e5bb80babe088278d1cfbada7f12ddaf10ed291765e26
which is the output of
echo 52Linux | sha256sum | sed 's/\W//g'

I hope an admin reads this cause I have no clue where to post it.

Cheers

fredric · 2012-01-02 04:08:17

Hi all!

I just have archlinux installed after trying again and again and happy because of it.

Happy new year!

gregor · 2012-01-02 09:34:34

i reported it....

funky-lich wrote:

Hey everybody! Happy New Year! I just had a hell of a time registering this morning. Apparently the forum servers think its still week 52, when in fact its week 00.
Hence,
date -u +%W$(uname) | sha256sum | sed 's/\W//g'
returns
b7093e2653b5c2355b6d0bd6c08337c82c3a8f2e10be73ff62b19d7d1f7c0e63
when registration EXPECTs
49b00f6047350392238e5bb80babe088278d1cfbada7f12ddaf10ed291765e26
which is the output of
echo 52Linux | sha256sum | sed 's/\W//g'
I hope an admin reads this cause I have no clue where to post it.
Cheers

Schar Ipero · 2012-01-02 12:19:40

Well lets see here.

I've been a Linux user for about a year now. Started by using a Kubuntu live disk to mess around with an old machine I own. Then experimented with Ubuntu and used it to dual boot my dying laptop. To bring in the new year I finally made the switch to Arch I'd been wanting to do and re-imaged both the aforementioned laptop and tower with Arch. Pretty much saved the old machines hehe. After a few days of messing around with it I finally correctly installed KDE as my GUI and everything seems to be running smoothly.

My intention is to mess around with customization, creating the perfect workspace for me.

A little about me? I'm a student, studying Computer Science and aiming to specialize my major in AI. I find Linux gives me a both a playground and a top notch working environment. Looking forward to some cool project

~Schar Ipero
Hello Archers!

alexkarro · 2012-01-02 23:25:42

Hello there!

I'm new with Arch aswell. Moved from Windows XP to Mint to Xubuntu and now to Arch. Really enjoying myself with it

fahmed · 2012-01-03 16:06:42

Hello Folks..

I am new to this forum and also newbie for linux programming. I hope this board and board's people will help me to learn things which i never knew..

Regards

james007 · 2012-01-03 21:47:01

Hey guys,

I swallowed the red pill a while ago and now I'm trying to see how far the rabbit hole goes...

Cheers!

pat231 · 2012-01-04 05:20:53

Hello,

I have been using Linux for a few years now, only my second time giving Arch a try.

Cheers!

moncky · 2012-01-04 11:05:58

Hi All,

I've been using Arch for quite a while now. Figured I should pop on and say hello.... Hello.

Moncky

FiltatosV6 · 2012-01-04 21:34:47

Hello

I wont to thank everyone for making and maintaining this excellent distro.
I am using Arch Linux for about 2 years and i can't go back.

Keep Up

commando · 2012-01-05 02:40:58

Hello everyone!

I'm a newbie from Toronto who got into Arch because I want to learn all there is to know about programming, and the Arch Way seems to be how to do that. Expect a lot of self-humiliating posts on what must be painfully honest. Humility is a virtue, though!

Knowledge, here I come!

RobinJ · 2012-01-05 20:34:13

I ended up with Arch because I used it to make a laptop with a broken graphic card usable again (SSH and made a webinterface to control XMMS2), and partly because I wanted to try something else than Debian-based distro's (I don't like RPM-distro's much either). I liked the speed and customizablility of it so much (even though I had tried nothing else than the CLI) that I put it on my laptop
For the full story: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1036762

Yurlungur · 2012-01-06 02:30:57

Hello everyone! I started using Arch about two weeks ago with the hopes of deepening my understanding of Linux, which I've been using for about a year now. So far, I haven't been disappointed. Already after installing Arch on my laptop, I've learned a lot more about what goes on under the hood than I knew before. Thanks to everyone who'se contributed to the Wiki, by the way: it's by far the best instruction manual for Linux I've seen so far. I'm looking forward to finding and solving problems with you all.

shaunsingh14 · 2012-01-07 17:39:08

Hey guys, I'm Shaun, and I am an Arch Linux noob from New York City.

Although this is my first time getting an Arch Linux system up and running, Arch Linux is the first GNU/Linux operating system I've ever heard of. When I made the switch from Windows to GNU/Linux, I contemplated using Arch Linux, after seeing a few screenshots. However, once I found out how complex the installation was, I decided to put it off for later. It wouldn't be until last year that I've attempted to install Arch Linux in Oracle VM Virtualbox at least five times in the past. Each time, I've come close to finally getting an Arch Linux system up and running, but in the end, I didn't read the documentation thoroughly, and that alone ended up costing me what could have been a working Arch Linux installation.

However, here I am, in 2012 with a fully-operational Arch Linux installation on my computer. I've actually contemplated installing Arch Linux on my computer in the past, seeing as how the community was benevolent enough to provide a beginner's guide, which covers many issues newcomers might face. However my wireless card was a recurring issue, seeing as it required firmware to run. However, when I read that the staging driver needed to run it was no longer needed, in the upgrade to the 3.x Linux kernel, I was ecstatic! It took me five hours just to get Arch Linux up and running (mostly because of my failure to read the documentation, and making small mistakes that made me start over again, which were covered in the ArchWiki.)

All in all, those five hours of setting up Arch LInux were worth it.

sitquietly · 2012-01-07 17:59:37

shaunsingh14 wrote:

Hey guys, I'm Shaun, and I am an Arch Linux noob from New York City.
.....However, here I am, in 2012 with a fully-operational Arch Linux installation on my computer.....

Congratulations Shaun. Take your time and enjoy the learning Archlinux is a great platform for really learning about linux.

I'm LPI certified, a retired systems developer, and STILL learning. I love man pages. I also love NY -- did grad work at Polytechnic in Brooklyn and worked in a NY area research center for some years (but living in Tennessee countryside for some years now...)

angelsguitar · 2012-01-08 10:46:00

Hello everyone. I'm Angel, musician and music teacher from the tropical island of Puerto Rico.

Although I'm fairly new to Arch (this is my secnd time trying it out), I'm not new to Linux - have been a Linux user since 2007, manily Ubuntu/Debian based distros. I was motivated to look again at Arch after reading some online comments at Linux Musicians forum - many recommended Arch as a great multimedia distro. So here I am!

I'm looking forward to interacting with the great Arch community. See you around.

catlover2 · 2012-01-08 10:50:52

Hello!

I have been using Ubuntu since late '09, and have increasingly been feeling that it was too 'bloated and slow'
(i.e. taking 1:10 to start up)

Some Googling later, I installed Arch x64 and haven't booted my Ubuntu installation since.

The FGLRX driver is working surprisingly well on my 5670 with KDE/Kwin and all the effects turned on.

I finally know why people complain about the Ubuntu wiki, I haven't needed to post here (yet) because of the superb documentation!

This looks like a great community, I'll see you around!

Last edited by catlover2 (2012-01-08 10:51:32)

NikTh · 2012-01-08 15:08:08

Hello ! and
a Happy New Year !!

I'm Nick and newbie at Arch. I just got here from Ubuntu. I have dual boot with Arch now.
I came on Arch to expand my knowledge . I have read very good reviews about your forum and of course for your huge and perfectly structured ArchWiki.

Thank you all.

kemmotar · 2012-01-08 22:19:25

Hi all!
After 3 years of using Ubuntu, I switched to Arch!

Cheers!

aus3ys · 2012-01-09 18:40:13

Hello everyone!

I switched to Linux almost year ago, and started with Ubuntu. Tried out almost every ubuntu-based distro in this year, but didn't get statisfied so decided to give Arch a try to impress me. Haven't installed it, yet. But I'm on my way to (have some difficulties to boot into installation on my machine), will let you know about my issues in newbie corner. And let's hope that someone could help with my issues, and I could fully turn to Arch.

See ya, in forums.

Arch Linux

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