The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Alad · 2015-04-02 21:10:32

Sniperiusz wrote:

Oh hello arch users. Thx for great distro.

Welcome mr. crosshair.

runical wrote:

Alad wrote:
Schnappi
Oh god. "Das kleine Krokodil..." *_*
Scheiße, now I have that stupid song in my head! (The Dutch version is even more terrible!)

If you want terrible, search for "Schnappi director's cut" XD

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Jonathan Precise · 2015-04-03 01:29:51

Hello everyone! I'm Jonathan and I've been running Arch for a few days now... Had Ubuntu GNOME 14.10, and since I had the basic command line knowledge to go through the guide, I gave it a shot.

Right now dual-booting Windows 8.1 with Arch (GNOME 3.16)!

Schnappi · 2015-04-03 06:02:30

runical wrote:

Alad wrote:
Schnappi
Oh god. "Das kleine Krokodil..." *_*
Scheiße, now I have that stupid song in my head! (The Dutch version is even more terrible!)
Welcome anyway (to everyone of course)

echo "Schnappi can * network with no DHCP"

awes · 2015-04-03 16:20:18

Hello everyone.
I've moved to Arch after 10 with Slackware. I'm very pleased, pacman is fantastic! Now I don't have to spend hours installing/updating software. Still trying to familiarize myself with systemd, though.

drcouzelis · 2015-04-03 16:51:11

Welcome.

awes wrote:

Now I don't have to spend hours installing/updating software.

I remember compiling everything myself in Slackware too. I still remember the day I first tried Debian with apt-get for the first time. WOW, what a difference.

Still trying to familiarize myself with systemd, though.

Me too.

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xodbox · 2015-04-04 08:56:40

Hi Arch Community

Been using arch exclusively at home for the past year or two, and I'm pretty happy with the OS, I do not think I'll be using anything else for a long while to come. Only just registered for a forum account today.

Before that I was distro hopping (ubuntu, mint, suse, debian, sabayon and many others), duel booting with windows vista/7 until windows broke and couldn't bother reinstalling.
And before that, I was a primary school kid who knew almost nothing of linux, with my first personal computer with windows xp, and before that a shared family pc with windows 95, then 3.1, then msdos.

None of the other distros really stuck, and had too many problems fixing or understanding any issues that occured. I often read good things about archlinux, so I had a look and it was pretty intimindating, but I decided to give it a shot regardless. And it was definately worth the time and effort to install, configure and learn.

I was very impressed once I had completed the install guide, and had nothing but the core utils installed. Everything was so clean and simple; a breath of fresh, crisp, clean air. I cannot stress enough how profond this experience was. The next thing I did was installed proprietary nvidia drivers, X and my desktop environment/window manager of choice. Only to enjoy the sweet, up to date, vanilla packages, without the distro branding which I hated so much, and the newest features which I always wanted. I was very happy that I had installed arch linux at that point.

Sure I had a few issues with sound, mounting drives, or breaking my system with pacman and not reading the news, still being a linux novice etc. But these were remedied pretty quickly by the amazing arch wiki, reading the forums and a few hours of learning.

In my day job, I develop websites in C#/Asp.net for the past 4-5 years, for a company that is a microsoft gold partner. Because C# is what I was primarily taught at college. Sure it got me a job doing programming, but I'd be much more happier if I was familar with GNU/Linux before hand, and was using libre tools like gdb, vim, nginx etc instead of iis and visual studio. Although there is news of microsoft opening up IIS, .NET core, msbuild etc. and porting them to linux, so I might not need to learn a new stack after all. I only seem to like languages that are ecmascript like languages, I'm confident with javascript, java, haxe, actionscript(adobe flash) and I think I would be pretty happy doing c++ or rust. The curly brackets make me feel at home. I find perl, python and php a bit too awkward.

I mostly play games, watch anime and surf the net on my machine. My favourite software packages are mpv, mpd, core utils, zsh, pacman, linux kernal & systemd (hate to admit it, but the unit services are awefully nice).

Looking forward to using wayland when nvidia finally adds support. I wouldn't mind trying a tiling window manager for 6 months, but I'll wait for nvidia wayland support first.

And I wouldn't mind getting a motherboard that supports coreboot, but I'm a desktop user and coreboot is mostly laptop boards for now.

TLDR;

Hi Everyone, Arch Rocks!

Alad · 2015-04-04 09:06:05

Welcome to the forums and Arch.

SirMyztiq · 2015-04-05 23:58:21

Hello!

I've been using Arch for about three weeks now. I had an itch to build a new PC and once I got the green light from She Who Can Make Life Miserable, I just went into it. Of course, the authenticity of the "I can build a good and fast PC, better than those at Best Buy for like 500" went out the window really fast. Alas, she was complete.

I'm a SW Engineer and I've worked on backend Java/Hibernate/All that good stuff at the beginning of my career. After that I've found myself playing around more with newer technologies and computer languages like Python, Ruby and frameworks like Express, ROR and Django. The only consistency was the Linux boxes these applications lived in. It sounds like I have tons of experience but I'm really just 3 years into my career. Anyways, I started out with bloaty development tools like Eclipse and IntelliJ which were great for Java development but as I transitioned to a NodeJS/Javascript development, they were just too much. Here comes an older developer whose experience makes me jealous gloating about his lack of need for a mouse because of VIM. In an effort to not look like too much of a green leaf, I dropped IntelliJ cold turkey and got on VIM. I was familiar with Vi and Linux CL through SSH but never as pure as what an Ubuntu machine was in terms of how much of it is STILL "opensource" My first job loved Windows and every tool I used was around it. I evaded Macs like the plague because, c'mon, 1800 dollars for a laptop? Then I got my recent gig and they issued Macs and you know what? I came to really understand what the true gross thing about Macs is. These things are powerful if used for more than web browsing and other typical stuff. I did not realize how little I knew about OSX until I had one. But still, I wouldn't buy one.

So anyways, I got into using VIM, it was a struggle at first. Holy crap it sucked and there were times when I wanted to go back. I just couldn't. I then went on a plugin binge. Now, a month later, I'm pretty good with it and I find it hard to use anything else but VIM. Why is this relevant to anything? Because VIM allowed me to take control of my work process and platform by customizing everything about it.

Therefore, when it came time to choose an operating system it quickly got garbled. I wanted to go Linux because it was free and all the cool kids are doing it. I just didn't realize how many options I would have. So I hunted. I didn't want Ubuntu because that felt like a cop out. Mint? Nah, too easy. I'm sure I would of loved them had I tried them but I don't work that way, I like to go deep into what I'm going to use and I knew I would have an itch to switch very quickly. Eventually I landed on the Arch Linux Wiki because of some "Best Linux Distros" list somebody wrote. I knew it wouldn't be as easy and clicking install and ultimately that is what attracted me the most. Most of my work tools revolve around a server on Linux. I've gotten used to using Terminals and I knew enough to do my job. But I also felt the void of not understanding what it is at a deeper level. I didn't know where to quickly find logs without looking through all the directories. WTF is "etsi"? What goes in lib? What makes Linux so much different than Windows other than price? What is the Linux "kernel"? I knew how to log in, check logs, restart, reboot and a few other things but I didn't understand Linux. Hence, why I went with Arch Linux.

Frankly, my understanding of Linux has grown by a wide margin because of Arch. It took me three installations because of an LVM bug that turned out wasn't my fault. However, the first time I followed a guide AND the Wiki...so the second time I followed just the Wiki, I found a few differences and dug deep to find out WHAT made them different. Third time I found a missed step from the second time. So finally I got it right on my fourth try(after I found out that the bug I was seeing wasn't because of something I did) I'm using Arch to learn about Linux. Whenever I install anything I read about what it does. When the Wiki says install this library, I read into what it does. There is nothing on my machine that I'm clueless about. I figure if I understand Linux it will make me a better employee and more suitable to grow in my career, plus I get to talk to the old timers about Linux now.

I went with OpenBox because, I like tinkering that VIM introduced. I'm taking way too long to choose a panel but I'm getting there.

So far I'm happy with Arch and although it requires some very manual work, it was worth it in the end because I understand Linux that much better because of Arch.

Alad · 2015-04-06 00:51:43

When the Wiki says install this library, I read into what it does.

Wish more people would do that Welcome.

sesese9 · 2015-04-06 02:20:43

Cooleech wrote:

@sesese9: is this custom computer yours or you'd like to have something like that? I'm asking beacuse that is quite nice machine. Oh, and welcome!

Sorry for the late reply.....So yeah, I built the computer that is listed at the bottom of my post. Eventually, I will upgrade to a GTX 280 but that is later...So far, I really love Arch!

drcouzelis · 2015-04-06 02:38:38

Welcome.

SirMyztiq wrote:

In an effort to not look like too much of a green leaf, I dropped IntelliJ cold turkey and got on VIM.

I'm glad it's working out for you, but don't forget that people should use what works best for them for the task they're doing, whether it's Windows, Linux, Vim, IntelliJ, or whatever.

...unless it's EMACS. Those people are just plain wrong.

Alad · 2015-04-06 02:44:31

drcouzelis wrote:

...unless it's EMACS. Those people are just plain wrong.

That's me

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SirMyztiq · 2015-04-06 03:35:43

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
SirMyztiq wrote:
In an effort to not look like too much of a green leaf, I dropped IntelliJ cold turkey and got on VIM.
I'm glad it's working out for you, but don't forget that people should use what works best for them for the task they're doing, whether it's Windows, Linux, Vim, IntelliJ, or whatever.
...unless it's EMACS. Those people are just plain wrong.

I agree. By "green leaf" I mean looking like a noob to the senior devs. I'm not one of those "my taste is better than yours" kind of guys. Frankly, I really liked intelliJ and it worked well for me so this change was 100% about pride and a notch on my developer's belt. Something about having someone that has never used VIM watch you edit code on the fly and asking "how the F did you do that?" feels really good inside. It was painful at the beginning, my God it was painful but once I got the hang of it, hell I got my email and hipchat/google chat running out of my terminal as well.

A senior developer uses EMACS and swears by it. Haven't had the curiosity to go look at it, I'm probably about 80% in terms of efficiency with VIM so need to master that first.

However, I will admit that when someone tells me they use Ubuntu, I kind of feel like patting them on the head and saying "that's nice. that's nice."

x33a · 2015-04-06 10:09:35

Alad wrote:

drcouzelis wrote:
...unless it's EMACS. Those people are just plain wrong.
That's me

I was hoping for a cool looking emacs screenshot...

Alad · 2015-04-06 13:22:47

x33a wrote:

Alad wrote:
drcouzelis wrote:
...unless it's EMACS. Those people are just plain wrong.
That's me
I was hoping for a cool looking emacs screenshot...

How about... http://i.imgur.com/3BmHVIZ.png

ascii: [1], [2]

x33a · 2015-04-07 12:28:27

Haha, that's cool.

Edit: ouch at $EDITOR

Disclaimer: I am a vim user myself.

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xy · 2015-04-08 02:42:24

Hey community,

I'm using arch for a while now and started to use it more often. I like the possibilities and full customization, even if I'm not completely happy with my system (maybe not the right wm, dm, etc yet) - hopefully I'll find the right infos to be fully satisfied by this awesome distro It has helped me already a lot and increased my knowledge of Linux strikingly.
The main reason, to be honest, why I registered here, is because I need some help (with system security / wanted to give tomoyo a try and still can't get it to work...). I'll post it soon...

nvn · 2015-04-09 04:37:17

Hi. I'm new.

drcouzelis · 2015-04-09 11:38:16

nvn wrote:

Hi. I'm new.

And keeping it simple, just like Arch Linux.

woodape · 2015-04-10 08:51:25

Hi All! I'm new to Arch but have been using CrunchBang for over a year now so not entirely a noob I thought I give Arch a bash while BunsenLabs gets sorted out and after seeing some cool Arch setups by a few users over there and so far I'm loving it! I will however be posting my first help request immediately

sdch · 2015-04-10 20:32:16

hello all........ i joined this forum today

ezstyles · 2015-04-11 04:24:31

Hello everyone,

EzStyles here, just installed Arch on my Asus ROG G751jm a couple days ago and it seems to be running great so far. I hope to learn and contribute a lot on these forums.

-Ez

VanillaFunk · 2015-04-11 18:51:19

I know i have been here in the past but have taken quite some time away to learn things and also due to work and life getting in the way. I am returning and just wanted to resay hello as I am sure there are many people I do not know anymore.

hope all are well.

MikeXD_123 · 2015-04-13 12:16:37

Hello Arch users,

My name is Mike, and I have been using Arch on my main workstation for the past few weeks. It has been a lot of fun so far. I have run into some problems, but I have been able to search through the wiki and find answers. Solving problems and having that challenge I think is what makes Arch fun for me. So far I have settled on using MATE as my desktop of choice. I also like XFCE. Anyway, I'm happy to be an Arch user!

Mike

VanillaFunk · 2015-04-13 13:09:37

welcome MikeXD_123.

Hope it stays fun for ya

Arch Linux

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