The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Kitpaddel · 2013-12-15 21:23:45

Hi everybody,

i installed arch some days ago moveing from Ubuntu. Looked for a more productive and developer friendly Linux distribution and found it :-)

I am very impressed of the good work you all did and am happy to join the community!

BleuCadet · 2013-12-16 01:25:11

Howdy!

I've been using Arch for over a year now but I saw a question on the forums that I thought I might be able to help answer so I went ahead and registered. I'm pretty good with python and am learning C++ now....It's quite a leap.

shaunsingh14 · 2013-12-16 02:21:11

I've returned to Arch. Has anyone missed me?
I feel like such a geezer returning to Arch now. No more /etc/rc.conf, no more "rc.d start food," no more of that now. Oh well, at least Pacman has remained constant (and I'm not too out of touch to remember how pacman-key works!).

I'm looking through my older posts . . . I was such a bastard. Oh well, such is life when you're 16 years old and have access to the internet and too much free time.

XSG CERBERUS XI · 2013-12-19 04:48:33

Well... just finished installing my Arch system and it took me a couple hours to do it (horrible network connection). It's my first time with Arch linux and I do have to say so far it's been the most interesting distro iv'e messed with. Hopefully going to create my "dream" distro using Arch since I tried with a couple of other distros and didn't work out too well...lol But glad to be here though! DEATH TO UNITY!! -_-... (sorry I dislike Unity with a fiery burning passion)

CERBERUS

OldAlgis · 2013-12-19 08:13:31

I am disappointed that my username OldAl was rejected. So I changed it to OldAlgis. I guess someone else has
registered as OldAl. But is that person really, really old? Well, I am 88 (and will be 89 RSN - in about 30 days!).

How can you call yourself old, OldAl?

GloW_on_dub · 2013-12-19 08:34:02

I'm sorry to say, there is no OldAl user.
Welcome though.

Last edited by GloW_on_dub (2013-12-19 08:34:13)

OldAlgis · 2013-12-19 09:55:29

GloW_on_dub wrote:

I'm sorry to say, there is no OldAl user.
Welcome though.

Thank you for the welcome. So why was my proposal to register OldAl as a user rejected? What possible reason for it, other than a clash with an existing name?

Al. [abbreviation for Algis, my legal full, given name.]

µ ² · 2013-12-19 10:06:43

GloW_on_dub wrote:

I'm sorry to say, there is no OldAl user.

How do you know that? Is there a hidden search function I've missed?

Last edited by µ ² (2013-12-19 10:09:16)

Vxed · 2013-12-19 10:27:21

Hey all.

First of all I just wanted to praise you all for the amazing job you have done with the wiki and especially the AUR.

I am old Red Hat / Cent OS guy and always loved the whole idea of starting with a base and minimal system and build my own setup. This was my first try with Arch and absolutely loving it.

I have mostly used Linux for servers(work) so this was my first try with setting up a proper desktop environment. I had Windows 8 on this PC which was mostly used for gaming and photography work.

Gnome, Steam, Libreoffice, Spotify and Gimp running with amazing performance, really surprised.

bishudash · 2013-12-19 12:17:59

Hi all!

Just wanted to say hello. I am about to graduate and I have been coding for over 10 years. Arch is the most amazing distro I have used and I love it. I registered finally after this forum decided to accept the answer the trick question which I swear took months. Anyway, I registered to I can particiate more and hopefully in the near future contribute to the this awesome community!

Bishu Das

GloW_on_dub · 2013-12-19 19:23:52

@OldAlgis && µ ² : https://bbs.archlinux.org/userlist.php, you can ask a moderator may be.

ewaller · 2013-12-19 19:40:42

GloW_on_dub wrote:

@OldAlgis && µ ² : https://bbs.archlinux.org/userlist.php, you can ask a moderator may be.

Sorry, moderators cannot help with this. Maybe an administrator.

ewaller · 2013-12-19 20:13:52

Welcome to Arch Linux!

OldAlgis wrote:

...But is that person really, really old? Well, I am 88 (and will be 89 RSN - in about 30 days!).

I do believe that makes you the oldest person on these forums. I think you are older than lilsirecho by about 8 months

Wow.

lelele · 2013-12-20 15:59:43

How many accounts do I need? There's a different one for each section, aur, wiki, bbs, bugs, download, google. Why is this? Is this the KISS principle?

ewaller · 2013-12-20 16:31:37

lelele wrote:

How many accounts do I need? There's a different one for each section, aur, wiki, bbs, bugs, download, google. Why is this? Is this the KISS principle?

Behind the curtain, Arch is a bunch of independent projects flying in loose formation. The machines and the people running the Forums are different that those in charge of the AUR, which is different than the mail lists, which is different from the bug tracker, which is different from the wiki, which is different from the IRC. There is some overlap -- Xyne is a TU and a moderator. But off these forums, I am just a normal Arch user.

uncripted · 2013-12-20 17:32:31

Hello everyone! My name is Benjy. Nice to meet you all.

DarkhorsE · 2013-12-23 12:01:48

Hi everyone!

I'm DarkhorsE and it's my honor to finally join the greatest forum in gnu/linux world!

I'm new to Arch, but I love fixing stuff, and I'm sure I'll stick with Arch for years to come!!

Btw, I love to r.t.f.m lol

I'll c you guys around

pintjuk · 2013-12-23 18:51:38

Hi, I decided to try Arch and installed it yesterday. thanks for the wiki, the beginners install guide was perfect the install went smoothly.

klaipeda · 2013-12-23 21:05:13

Hi everyone! I use many distro in my life(x), debian, slackware, gentoo, ubuntu... now is the turn of arch, I'm moving from ubuntu and I want to try the real freedom with an huge wiki beside me

Merry Christmas (by the way...)

nomko · 2013-12-24 16:02:39

Hi everybody,

My name is Nomko and i'm using Linux since 2007. Started with Ubuntu 7.04 up till 10.04.3. Dichted Ubuntu for Mint due to that ugly Unity desktop. Now i want to play with Archlinux a bit since i heard a lot of good stuff about Archlinux.

hiep4895 · 2013-12-24 23:47:29

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … hange_root

"Your Arch install will already be mounted on /mnt
..
# mount -t proc none /mnt/arch/proc
# mount -t sysfs none /mnt/arch/sys
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/arch/dev"

is "/mnt/arch" right?

HalosGhost · 2013-12-24 23:55:46

hiep4895 wrote:

<snip>

Welcome to the forums, but this is not a support thread. Please open a new thread for help with your issue. On a related note, please use code tags to surround terminal commands or output.

All the best,

-HG

Alfis · 2013-12-25 17:48:58

Hello people!

Been using Linux for a year or so. Tried Ubuntu first, of course. Didn't like it because everything was already done for me, but not the way I like it. Wanted to customize stuff!
My idea was to get a LFS, but a friend talked me into trying Arch first, and I love it thus far, with the exception of a few fubars and reinstalls here and there

Cheers.

vkrajacic89 · 2013-12-26 15:48:01

Hi all! I've been using Linux for few years now, starting with Ubuntu. Then I heard great reviews about Arch from my friends, so I tought I'll give it a try. I've just installed it using beginner's guide and loving it so far. Wiki is just awesome, great job! I hope I'll stick around.

fkol-k4 · 2013-12-26 22:26:57

Hello everyone in the forums!

I've been using Linux OS's for about 3 years now. Started with Ubuntu, stayed there ever since and probably continue so (i'm Administrator of the Ubuntu Greek Translators and i have more than 4000 posts on the Greek Ubuntu user support forums), but i like to keep an open mind and i always like to try and learn new stuff, so i've tried many different distros (all of the main ones).
I hadn't tried Arch till now, but always heard so much good things about it, so i was moved to jump in this train.

So far i like what i see and it feels great that after a minor setback i'm now typing my first post in this forum from my very first Arch Linux installation!

I'm looking forward to a great journey with Arch Linux and it's community.
Happy holidays everyone

Arch Linux

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