The Official Hello Everyone Thread

tobiasjone · 2012-03-07 01:01:58

Hi there.

Thanks for all the great info on here, it's been really interesting and informative. Arch has become my distro of choice by quite some margin. All the config files make sense; it's clean, tidy and has been really, really stable. Just need to ween some stuff off Debian and then I'm 100% on Arch. )

Cheers,

Toby

JeSuisNerd · 2012-03-07 03:28:02

Hi all!

I'm somewhat new to the Linux scene, I've just come from using Ubuntu for less than a year. I finally felt comfortable enough with its inner workings (and eager enough for insane levels of customization) to buck up the courage to install Arch and start fresh. I started looking into other distros several months ago, and Arch caught my attention and I've since fallen in love with its philosophy and its community. I even ended up at the Arch forums quite often when looking for help in Ubuntu. Installing my first tiling window manager and losing title bars was a scary step I decided to make on top of it, but I haven't regretted it once. All the customizations I'm required to make (or have the option of making) are a difference that I'm very glad to see, and with Arch I feel so much more at home than I have on any other OS.

Anyway, long story short, I'm only two days in and I don't think anybody could convince me not to stay.

Tyler / Egon

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Pupizoid · 2012-03-07 09:45:01

Hi everyone! From Russia this time!
I come to Arch from Ubuntu and it's great thing!

sitquietly · 2012-03-07 14:15:31

Pupizoid wrote:

Hi everyone! From Russia this time!
I come to Arch from Ubuntu and it's great thing!

Hey! I live in Moscow too! [Moscow, Tennessee, oh well] and I came to Arch from Ubuntu. Welcome friend.

Pupizoid · 2012-03-07 18:45:15

sitquietly wrote:

Pupizoid wrote:
Hi everyone! From Russia this time!
I come to Arch from Ubuntu and it's great thing!
Hey! I live in Moscow too! [Moscow, Tennessee, oh well] and I came to Arch from Ubuntu. Welcome friend.

Uraa! Thanks!

Kjurinov · 2012-03-07 21:45:45

i like to say that i am abusing the forum & the wiki for a while, i'm new to arch linux and GNU/linux at all, i'm all messy and learning, losing things, hardcore noob. I hope in some time (a decade or so) to be able to contribute. Thanks to the creators of the awesome wikis too...
so, hello from Veles, Macedonia!

joako · 2012-03-08 06:27:33

Hi everyone!!

my history with linux??
Started with Slackware plain then moved to Zenwalk then Vector (gets me melancholic.. the oldays u know :-),
Then settled with gentoo back in 2004 used it for 2 or years..... got fed up with portage and compiling everything, took a peek over Ubuntu but is was very lame
So here I am using Arch for three years and counting
congratulations to the developers and everyone else involved; wiki (which I use quite a lot), AUR, etc...just rock on man.!!!!
Best Distro ever.

Joako.-

czubek · 2012-03-09 00:15:49

Hello

Started playing in 2005. Now I aspire to Arch. It seems like 2005 again.

I'm pleased to announce that I am writing this edit from my HPDV5k laptop running Arch Linux.

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devilirium · 2012-03-09 08:30:32

Hello

My name is devilirium, and I am a new arch linux user. I'll try to learn the basics around, and be active on the forums, if I can manage that. I'm learning programming at the university. I want to program games in the future, and they shall be cross platform. But nowadays I've had a couple of thoughts, that maybe we don't need to create cross-platform software to let the windows users switch the UNIX; strengthening it's user base.

greywolf · 2012-03-10 06:41:55

Just saying hello. I am a retired IT Project Manager/Consultant so I have been around Unix for 20 years or so. Actually started with Xenix running a home-grown payroll on a 386 IBM pc in the mid 80's.

I now support a bunch of us "old-timers" running various Linux distros. I wanted to try Arch because of the level of user control and the "true" rolling nature of the release. At the moment it is on my test machine whilst I learn a bit more. I hope to be able to give a bit back in time as well.

See you around,
greywolf.

pi3832 · 2012-03-10 12:30:43

Just to get the all-important "post count" to be not null:

Ubuntude -> Fedora -> Ubuntude -> Fedora LXDE -> Arch (in theory)

I'm sitting here on my laptop figuring out how, exactly, I want to make the partitions and file systems on my desktop way more complicated than they need to be. (Personally, I find that I have to make it Stupid before I can go back and make it Simple.)

I was bookmarking useful-looking Arch things, and figured I might as well register, and post.

Avast ye scurvy Drives! Prepare to be GParted!

Habitual · 2012-03-11 04:25:09

Hello ArchLinux people.

I don't use Arch atm but it doesn't mean I won't.
I came here hoping that there's some hard core System Administrators that I can communicate with and I respect the authoritative content at wiki.archlinux.org
Hang out with the "Big Dogs". woof!

I have been doing IT for 18 years and need to expand my circle of Admin contacts.

so if topics like "glusterfs-over-sshfs" doesn't scare you away, You are my kind of person.

Peace.

GNUkid · 2012-03-11 17:36:04

Hi, my name is GNUkid! I've just installed Arch and its really good so far. But its something I dont get, many people saying "Hey, I learned so much with Arch" and "Arch has so amazing wiki" but I dont get that? I couldnt learn anything of installing it, and the wiki is good but the debians wiki and gentoos wiki is pretty much the same to me. And the only distro i've learned something while installing is gentoo, which is the latest distro i've used. But I got tired compiling packages it took so long time so I thought I would move back to Debian but the packages in their repos are so bloated so I tried Arch. And its pretty good, but well.. all distros sucks, Arch just sucks a little less

ClaudioP · 2012-03-11 19:23:58

Hi, my name is Claudio and i am a Portuguese GNU/Linux user.
I've used many distros until now (Mostly Mint, openSUSE,CentOS and Fedora) and i currently have Fedora running on the desktop and installed right now Arch on the netbook.

I am using GNU based systems for almost a year so i already have the basic perception of how it works after all, know the basic command and things like that.
Installing arch/kde took me about 20 tries in virtual machines (in about two months) and three in the real machine, but i still don't understand most of it and i am experiencing lots of bugs (startup, drivers, devices, sound, fonts ...) so i'll try to ask the community for help and i hope that later i'll be able to answer similar questions to people like me.

Regards

blackout23 · 2012-03-12 18:39:52

GNUkid wrote:

Hi, my name is GNUkid! I've just installed Arch and its really good so far. But its something I dont get, many people saying "Hey, I learned so much with Arch" and "Arch has so amazing wiki" but I dont get that? I couldnt learn anything of installing it, and the wiki is good but the debians wiki and gentoos wiki is pretty much the same to me. And the only distro i've learned something while installing is gentoo, which is the latest distro i've used. But I got tired compiling packages it took so long time so I thought I would move back to Debian but the packages in their repos are so bloated so I tried Arch. And its pretty good, but well.. all distros sucks, Arch just sucks a little less

Well it depends where you come from. If you come from a Distro that does everything for you, you will learn alot. If you come from Gentoo you are already an advanced user.
I came from Ubuntu to Arch and it was the first time that I really figured out how every part of the system works (Kernel Moduls, Xorg Server and such).

absolutionx · 2012-03-12 19:19:12

Hello,

My name is Brandon and I'm a student at UCF. I recently decided to give arch a shot after failing miserably the first time I tried to install it. The wiki was very help and serves as my bible to figuring out anything I need to know about arch. I originally started on Ubuntu a few years ago but have not been impressed with the direction they are going. I also love that arch is a rolling release and that everything is pretty much up to date.

Seeya guys around!

Problemer · 2012-03-14 00:10:42

Hello!

I Registered yesterday even though i installed Arch Linux on this computer last summer. Havent used the computer since then , but on this sunday my Charger stoped working for my macbook pro and that may have damaged the battery also , so the computer is dead.

The reason i installed Arch is becouse its a light weight distribution and this Laptop is old , its an Acer Travelmate 7520. Arch runs smoothly though.

I used to run Linux back in the 90's moslty Slackware but also Redhat. Stoped using it when i bought my first mac but i'm getting tired of macosx and i'm planning to goto the Software Engineering program at the Univeristy of Gothenburg in sweden , where i live. Yes i am swedish (50% Finish).

So i though that Linux is one way to update my computer kills and all the free programs that comes with it are handy , not to mention that it is also a great programming platform.

My main hobbies are Music and Computers. I have been working as service engineer in the Marin industri with engines and propulsion systems , unfortunatly i am unemployed for the moment. But thats not a biggie , gives me time to practice my hobbies and go to the gym.

Best Regards
Problemer

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Piki · 2012-03-14 01:04:01

Hi,
I have been using Linux for five years, and I've been wanting to try Arch for awhile, I just haven't got around to it until now. I finally installed Arch because I am currently stuck booting a flash drive (dead hard disk and no money :-( ), and Arch seemed like the perfect distro for a flash drive install -- fast. minimal, and customizable, so I can easily choose a minimal set of tools rather than having an over-abundance of tool forced on me (most distros do this).

I had a hiccup with the initial install, but after a bit of googling, I eventually found the Arch Wiki article for USB installation, and now I am up and running, and I hope my experience with Arch goes well.

Xeitgeist · 2012-03-14 08:51:29

Hi,

I became a Linux-addict last year when I tried out Ubuntu and later on hopped between Fedora, Debian, and CentOS. I just love the idea of huge communities collaborating to create computer software platforms that can outshine many proprietary products.

Having spent my newbie days getting used to the bash shell, standard GNU utilities and the concept of packages, I started to look for the perfect distribution for my needs; it had to be lightweight, up-to-date, and give me greater control over my system (the reason being that I wanted to dig deeper into Linux). That's how I found Arch.

I'm still a newbie when it comes to system administration, having used Windows all my life, but I intend to change that by following Arch's DIY approach. Hope to have a great time here in this community.

Oh, I almost forgot, Happy 10th Birthday Arch :-)

ernibert · 2012-03-14 09:17:02

Hi all,

YAAU

Yet Another Arch User. I started my Linux "career" at kernel version 2.2 on a SuSE distro. Than I discovered the LFS project and I stopped trying this distro or that, I did it simply by my own. Now I'm going to use ArchLinux on my families machines - it is simply easy to administrate them with Arch. Nevertheless, I'm still using LFS as well - it's fun, try it!

So, greetings to all the ArchLinux users and developers and Happy Birthday Arch!

So long,

Thomas

@GNUkid, If you want to learn how things work and how they are used, give LFS a try, its even more vanilla than Gentoo while it is not a distro but a guideline

goran181 · 2012-03-14 11:08:49

Hello all,

This my first attempt in using Arch Linux, after using ubuntu for few days.. ( unity dock drived me nuts ) and centos for hosting purposes, I have decided to tryout Arch for my home use.

The process of installing is full of options, by missing some ( as configuring eth0 ) , I almost quitted the procedure, however thanks to the people who assambled the wiki I have solved the issue within minutes, knowing that such literature is behind my back for any queries i may have I have continued the installation and now I'm using the arch with kde desktop ( which also took me several tries until i installed the graphic drivers properly ).

Keeping the system organized and shaped as I want is really what I wanted, I'm sure that I will find a lot of Arch users on this forums with useful advices and already solved issues, who knows maybe one day ( few years from now ) I will be capable to help someone to aid the issue which I already had.

Anyway.. my name is Goran... glad to meet you all..

Eye4anIrony · 2012-03-15 06:40:56

Well met, perspicuous Archers!

Although it's an ambitious step, I've all but decided on Arch as my first getaway from the opacity and complication of Windows. From the look of this thread, it would seem a matter of convention that I share a bit about my journey here.

In a nutshell, I do numerics. I need floating-point performance foremost of all. I'm also here to enrich myself as a programmer, to the ultimate benefit of my primarily mathematical background and work. I've had enough troubles with MinGW-w64/Windows 7 to make the switch.

I'll venture to claim modest facility in C/C++, and even a modest excitement to dive into Vim. Down the road I hope to be developing CUDA, Embedded C, LaTeX, Mathematica, and Stata script as well.

The starting point I'm envisioning is a minimal system for editing/profiling/debugging C, optimized first of all for floating-point performance. In keeping with the Way, I'm availing myself of your superb wiki among other resources; still, any direction you have to offer is always graciously received.

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desmondddd · 2012-03-15 09:05:48

hello, everyone

pe7er · 2012-03-15 23:58:27

Hi all,

In 2007 I finally switched from Windows to Linux on my daily work PC.
Before that, I tried different distributions, but couldn't make the switch.

I started with Ubuntu but last year I switched to Debian (thanks to Unity ;-)
On a laptop I use Linux Mint.
I have an old thin client with Damn Small Linux (DSL) from an USB stick which is my media player.
And on a Plugcomputer called SheevaPlug (btw: excellent way to learn the command line interface because it lacks a monitor!) I use Ubuntu server edition.

I've heard & read a lot of positive stories about Arch Linux, so therefore I am here!

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boydrice · 2012-03-18 03:19:34

Hi All,

I have mainly been a Slackware user but recently I have become enamored with Gnome Shell. I tested out Gnome Shell on Fedora and openSUSE but they all left me a bit unsatisfied. I had tried Arch periodically but never found a reason to switch from Slackware until I tried out an Arch install with Gnome Shell on it. So I am pretty happy with my setup right now.

Arch Linux

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