The Official Hello Everyone Thread

bodge99 · 2015-05-14 10:15:08

Hello All..

Yet another one moving from Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. I don't like the direction that these distros are moving in.

Started playing with Arch yesterday.. Great fun!! The basic installation process and configuration reminded me of early Slackware, just without the zillion floppies.

I soon realised that Debian etc. have made me lazy.. I had to dredge up old memories on how to configure everything manually. Very pleased to say that I only had to look up one particular item (Slim2 with Xfce4).

Next: The joys of manually configuring Samba..

Bodge99

a3giso · 2015-05-14 11:20:29

hello archers,

i am using arch for a few years now and would like to give sthg. back to the community.
Lets begin

a3giso

grubernd · 2015-05-15 22:50:42

hi.
using arch since 2013 and mostly on embedded systems but always aiming to avoid arm-cpu specific solutions. working on my own modular hardware agnostic system installer. that's a mouthful for a bunch of bash scripts.

cheers,
grubernd

affsslacker · 2015-05-16 00:45:39

Hello everyone, I'm from Brazil
I'm using Arch Linux now. I installed a few days (and I'm enjoying it a lot. I am newbie in Linux and Arch linux too, but I'm learning a lot.

nomorewindows · 2015-05-16 05:13:26

bodge99 wrote:

Hello All..
Started playing with Arch yesterday.. Great fun!! The basic installation process and configuration reminded me of early Slackware, just without the zillion floppies.

How do you think some of us get our sleep at night? Counting sheep?

pika · 2015-05-16 05:41:30

hello, hello! :3

switched to arch, now after a month i can say:
- all the latest stuff,
- lot of aur packages broken
- had to configure a lot myself, things i didnt know before i had to even configure or get my head about, like auto-mounting usb sticks, time sync, touchpad synaptics
- avid i3wm user here but in order to get a lot work done for me, i just installed some other environments like gnome to do the dirty work for me
- sometimes on #arch* ranting about fanboys and trying to marriage arch + ubuntu as archbuntu, the best OS since sliced bread
- i like chicken nuggets and orange juice
- im still happy

runical · 2015-05-16 10:12:09

pika wrote:

- lot of aur packages broken

Blame Allan! This happened because he had to make the package function mandatory

- had to configure a lot myself, things i didnt know before i had to even configure or get my head about, like auto-mounting usb sticks, time sync, touchpad synaptics

Yeah, that is one of the main shocks. You'll get used to it. I still find things I need to configure in order to get some things working...

- im still happy

Good to hear! Welcome to all!

FNtastic · 2015-05-16 13:21:16

Finally joined after many years of lurking. My first post should be a good one.

charles_houston · 2015-05-17 01:10:08

Hello All,

Am excited to be apart of the arch community and develop a more meaningful relationship with the kernel and my system architecture. I have wanted for along time to make the switch to Arch but have been hesitant to make the commitment to the installation. After recently purchasing a new machine, I decided to wait until my finals were over and ditch my ubuntu-mate/windows dual partition and head to new waters. Well finals are over and several hours later my computer is back in business with my new arch installation. I look forward to utilizing the community resources and general knowledge pool to creating a operating system experience to help broaden my general capacity as a programmer and, of course, to also enhance my efficiency at the keyboard. I realize that I have a lot to learn linux-wise, but I am excited to move forward along that path, as the trip thus has more then paid its cost. That being said, I have moved a number of linux texts to the top of my reading list and hope some day to be able to contribute to the larger project at hand.

Charles

-Also I am a math student and I like ocaml and c programming

Snaphuman · 2015-05-17 02:31:43

Hello everybody!

I have been Arch user from some years back. I appreciate all the community contributions that makes this distro a great and reliable tool. I have been learning a lot reading the forums and of course all the resources and knowledge about archlinux that live in the cyberspace. I hope I can contribute in some way to the community with what I have learned.

Fabián

takispan · 2015-05-18 21:30:32

Hello all, I am yet another newbie Have been an Ubuntu user for some time now, but I decided to change. Tried Elementary but it is still very immature and I always wanted to learn more about the things going on behind the scenes so I stumbled upon Arch. Yes I encountered errors, yes I will encounter (and produce ) many more but at the end of the day I will fix it! Love the philosophy of both the Arch system and the community.
You know the saying: "Give a man a fish and he will survive a day, teach the man to fish and he will never starve". Cheers

PS. I must learn to preview my posts before submitting them

Last edited by takispan (2015-05-18 21:32:27)

adlo · 2015-05-20 16:05:15

Hi, I'm adlo! I have used a few different Linux distros, and I don't have a preference for any particular one. Currently, I am using Arch, and I think it is very good.

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KingToor · 2015-05-21 23:05:22

Newb here,

Whats up!!

I have Arch installed on Vmware/ Ubuntu Host after I feel comfortable I will make the big move
and jump the Arch. In other words I will be dumping Ubuntu.

Matlock · 2015-05-22 01:56:36

toppy wrote:

Welcome to Arch Linux Matlock (and all the other new users) ... Isn't it just THE best OS ?
I gave up on Windows a few years ago and began experimenting with linux. I 'distro-hopped' at first trying to find an OS that met my needs and that I felt comfortable working with, during that time I heard much talk of Arch Linux and after reading several install and how-to guides in the Wiki and on Google, I gave Arch a try ... it hasn't left my PC since.
I hope Arch brings you as much fun as it has for me. To everyone in the forums and wiki, thank you for all your help, support and sharing of your knowledge.

Sorry I am just now replying. Thank you for the welcome. I am loving Arch Linux.

Matlock · 2015-05-22 01:57:39

drcouzelis wrote:

Welcome.
Matlock wrote:
As of right now, I don't plan to switch to any other OS for any of my computers (unless I use Ubuntu or Kubuntu for my family or my kids one day until they are ready for Arch lol).
My daughter has been using my Arch Linux computer since she was three. Your children will learn whatever is put in front of them.

Sorry I am just now getting back to you. Thank you, You are correct. Perhaps my children will learn Arch haha.

benobassist · 2015-05-24 02:13:15

Hello all!

I have always loved linux, and started playing around with arch a few months ago, I love the simplicity of it and really getting down to the grit of the system. After having used these forums countless times to find answers to questions I figured I'd register! Looking forward to spending lots of time on here!

As a side note, I loved you alls equivalent of a captcha.

VanillaFunk · 2015-05-24 03:11:58

Heya benobassist, welcome to the forums.

Aerial Boundaries · 2015-05-24 03:21:31

Hello,

I have been an on and off Linux user for years now, constantly distrohopping and keeping Windows as a backup and for a bit of gaming now and then. I first tried out Ubuntu sometime around 2005, and although it was adequate I found it boring and mildly irritating. Something wasn't right, I love computers and I installed Linux to empower my self a bit more, but Ubuntu felt like a bit of a cheap copy of the proprietary OSs I was used to. Granted this wasn't entirely the fault of that distro, hardware support for the desktop was worse back then.

Anyway, I tried out most of the major ones and most of them had their strengths, but I was still frustrated. Things broke, frequently. And when they did (or when everything did after a major update!) I had no clue how to fix them. My experience with Ubuntu didn't teach me much about the inner workings of Linux and regardless I was young and lazy and had little patience to learn. The other distros taught me a bit more but again not much, so after a long while I just gave up and went back to Windows.

It has been two years since I last had a Linux partition on my machine and I decided I was going to do it right this time. I was going to find a distro that didn't spoonfeed me, and a community that didn't encourage me to copy/paste their fixes. I also wanted the latest greatest software. I figured that any experience with Linux will present you with a certain amount of bugs, and if that is so, then I might as well have new features, new bugs and new fixes as soon as they arrive on the scene!

I settled on Arch on recommendation, read the Beginner's Guide and pertinent wiki articles and managed to get a functioning system up after a couple of hours work.

It has been about two and a half weeks since, and already I've set up xfce, conky, chrome, mpv, nvidia drivers, connman, dmenu, cmus and more just the way I like. I even wrote a shell script to get album art from cmus and push it through to conky. You guys must understand I've never actually written a shell script or any program in my life. I was absolutely ecstatic when it worked! It appears so stable in fact that I put it up on github and listed it on the cmus wiki after a few improvements.

Point being here that I never could have imagined doing that before Arch, so it is gratifying.

I look forward to many a year running arch, fixing kernel panics, setting my computer on fire, tinkering, more tinkering, more fire, and cool and useful features.

Cheers!

P.S. Having said all that, I don't think I'll ever have one OS on my machine again. I need something to fall back on when faeces hits the proverbial fan

mauritiusdadd · 2015-05-24 07:21:33

Well, If I convert the variable that holds the number of my posts to unsigned char then this is my first post!

#include <stdio.h>

#define N_OF_POSTS 257

int main()
{
  printf("%d\n", (unsigned char)N_OF_POSTS);
}

And as my first post, I want to say hello (again, and in the right thread this time ) to this wonderful community... but I'm not a good speaker so I'll let the code speak for me

++++++++
[
  >++++
  [>++>+++>++>+>+++<<<<<-]
  >+>+>>>>+
  [<]<-
]
>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<+.<+++.>>>+++.+++++.---.<<<.+.>>+.>>++.

Aerial Boundaries · 2015-05-24 07:24:30

Whoa, that's a real brainfuck man

bklee · 2015-05-25 04:46:05

Hi All,

Recently my old computer--a 5-6 yr old macbook running ubuntu--lost battery capacity and cursor / keyboard coherence. For my next machine, I wanted to get a more involving distribution of linux and install it on a computer with hardware not specialized by Mac.

I guess I missed the thinkpad heyday, but I decided to try out one of the new models despite some user lashback against design changes. I would have preferred to get a model from the traditional "T" series, but the computer store in Kansas City was limited in selection. I got the last item of last year's stock of thinkpads, an i3 E440. Open box clearance.

It was a risk for me to purchase the computer with the intention of installing linux, since I am a relatively unexperienced beginner. All of the great documentation provided by archlinux gave me confidence to buy the computer and complete the install. Thank you all for putting so much time into your documentation. I "RTFM" and ended up with a machine that has been working pretty well thus far!

The first page I found was: Archlinux for Thinkpad E440 .

The information on this page seems to be pretty good, but installation did require some research out of the core documentation. When I burnt the installation .iso to CD it did not read properly, but this was fixed by burning to DVD instead. Audio did not work out of box. I figured it out and then "ETFM" ( E: edit or editted ). New wiki section "Audio" describes potential installation hazard, and references the forum post that helped me fix the audio issue on my new computer. With this change and a few pacman grabs, I could even play "Return of the King" from a DVD.

But I didn't get a computer to lay around and watch fantasy movies all day. For my graduate research, I need to be able to compute algebraic and geometric transformations, ennumerate series, solve differential equations, make pretty pictures, etc. For these tasks I usually use Mathematica. ArchLinux isn't yet on M's tested distribution list yet, but version 8 seems to work fine with Plasma environment and no extra configuration. It only takes ~1/2 sec to compute a 2000x1200 px image of a limit-periodic hexagonal tiling in 10-colors: image here . Once I get back to work, I will start to accumulate better usage statistics.

According to pacman, I have about ~700 packages installed already--including gimp, inkscape, kile, RevTex, Bibtex, Okular--and surely I will find more in the future. With all of the great documentation and discussion, I don't expect to encounter any insurmountable problems.

Thanks again,

Brad

Last edited by bklee (2015-05-25 05:58:48)

jasonwryan · 2015-05-25 05:08:43

Merging with the Official Hello Everyone thread...

madaramost · 2015-05-25 14:51:34

Hello !!!

Drauk' · 2015-05-25 22:55:22

Salutation brethren!

I've been a member of other (non-linux related) tech forums in the past, finally making the jump to something more academically centric, hopefully to better my understanding of linux and to hang out with some like minded individuals

Great to be here.

joshaspinall · 2015-05-28 07:24:27

Hello all.

I have been using Arch for a little while now, both on my desktop and laptop, and feel it is time to say hello!

I currently use Arch as the sole OS on my laptop, with a half and half Windows on my desktop purely to access my games library (everything else is done with Arch). I spent several years distro-hopping between the usual names, and found I wasn't really happy with them. I tended to find that everything was hidden away in a menu somewhere, and I didn't learn very much. Things also broke, a lot.

I remember stumbling onto Arch on Distrowatch, as it was quite high on the list and I hadn't really heard of it before. Having read the description of a distribution that was very much DIY, with lots of setup and tinkering in the weeds, I proceeded to drop a .iso onto a spare USB stick and haven't looked back since. There have been highs and lows, but a low is now typically followed by a massive high when long evenings spent reading and learning result in a fix and a working system again!

Finally for a bit of praise; the Wiki is one of the most useful I have ever come across, even to someone only mildly familiar with Software/Linux. 'I have a problem, I wonder if... Yep, it's on the Wiki... Fixed!' I hope that as I continue to learn and use Arch, I can help and contribute in at least some small way.

Thanks!

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