The Official Hello Everyone Thread

jeff-123 · 2015-08-21 16:30:59

Hey Everyone! Glad to be a part of the Arch community. I'm new but can't wait to get started.

VanillaFunk · 2015-08-21 18:00:58

welcome to the madness

uritomas · 2015-08-22 09:33:41

Hello everyone!

I'm Uri Tomas and I'm from Spain. I've been linux user for a while but it's a large while...:) Maybe 4-5 ye without login into any linux...Dont be bad. And dont hurt me for my english either xd

giupino82 · 2015-08-22 09:44:29

Hi All,
my name is Giuseppe and i'm from Italy...
starting with Ubuntu in 2006 and passing through Debian until i installed Arch few days ago on my main PC... (but i've already used Arch with xfce on my secondary laptop).

Byez!
Giupino

JohnBobSmith · 2015-08-22 15:17:33

Greetings everyone,

I first found out about Arch some time ago. I've been on the forums before, but never really bothered to get into it. I have since setup a nice media server running Arch. If only I didn't lack that one silly auxiliary chord, I could have a boombox with a 4 inch or so subwoofer hooked up to it. It's really fun stuff!

My reason for coming here today is that I managed to hose my Linux Mint desktop. Everything I tried just further broke it, until I decided I wanted to re-install XFCE. And, oops. Synaptic took half the system with it. Joy... I wanted to upgrade my video drivers, and possibly the kernel to get more performance for a lot of games that I play. Thats when it occurred to me that I could use Arch and build the most minimal yet gamer friendly rig I could come up with. I could have all the latest video drivers and kernels, avoid wasting precious resources to a full desktop, and still have something that is truly unique and my own.

So I am going to be actively using Arch after I install it on my Laptop. I hope I will be able to contribute my successes (and failures) to the community, so we can learn from them. I look forward to the future.

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Moolvie · 2015-08-23 19:22:04

Hi,
I am extremely new to Arch Linux. Just finished an install on an old HP Pavilion 7840. Interesting. My first install ever was Slackware 2.0. which was many years ago. I have not be very active in the Linux community of late just starting to get back into it. I have a lot of old computers laying about and I thought "why not put Linux on all of them". I can say it was an adventure to get the ol' Pavilion running. ran into several issues, but this forum and wikis were a lot of help. So I just wanted to say hi and I will probably have many questions in the future.

oh, yeah, I am running xfce for my window manager. gnome just made the whole thing flicker and refuse to finish booting. heh.

Moolvie

Xyne · 2015-08-23 20:05:06

Merging to the "Hello Everyone" thread.

OmegaTwiddle · 2015-08-24 03:33:37

Hello everyone! Names Mike, from the USA. Coming to Arch from Ubuntu to both find a purer form of Linux, as well as learn more about the system internals via general hackery. Glad to be here, and hope to be able to contribute more to the community than this "Hello World" post!

ctleft · 2015-08-24 11:04:39

Hello Everyone!

VanillaFunk · 2015-08-24 12:41:04

ctleft wrote:

Hello Everyone!

Welcome and nice avatar

krpec · 2015-08-27 12:53:04

Hi everyone! My name's Roman, I'm from Czech Republic. I wanted to try Arch for a long time, I've been using mainly Debian and its derivatives on both servers and desktops/laptops, but my main machine for the last 6 years was MacBook Pro. The thing is that it's getting pretty old now so I'm about to buy a new machine, and it won't be from Apple as I don't want to spend huge amount of money for something I cannot upgrade anything on.

Currently running Arch with i3 in virtual machine just to get used to it as it'll be my only system once I get new laptop..

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alogim · 2015-08-28 21:57:08

Hi everyone!
I'm Michael from Italy. I discovered Linux for the first time in the far 2010, with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I remember well the hours passed to discover and find out all the news in that system. Since then, I tried many distros: Debian, Mageia, Slackware, Linux Mint, Fuduntu, openSUSE, Zorin and Fedora. Recently I tried Gentoo, installation went fine after some problems, but I find it too difficult to maintain , even if it is absolutely customizable and you can super-optimize it. In the last years I focused on KDE as favourite environment, even if I tried XFCE, LXDE, Gnome, Unity, Cinnamom, Mate and many others.
I like Arch for its easy-to-install packages and for the ability to install only the programs you really want, without any unneeded ones.
I like to develop and I hope I will able to help in the improvement of this OS.

Michael

rowra · 2015-08-30 19:40:40

Hello everyone!

I'm Mark (nick rowra or rwr derived from "aurora" from my hc gamer period) from Budapest, Hungary. I started my computing experiences very early, around the age of 4 or so. I remember it was something black and then gray and then some awful blue. Yeah, no way I could remember/tell but my guess is on some kind of dos and norton commander or so.
Anyway, ever since then I've been evolving, started my studies as a software engineer / programmer / math thing, and started experiencing with windows, linux, bsd all there is. Ever since I've heard of Arch, it lived in my mind as something superior. Something terribly simple, stripped down (more like not fattened up to begin with) and just pure. I knew it was too much to handle for me the first times but I also knew I wanted it. So time passed, years, but then one day (precisely 2 days ago haha) I gave it a try. It installed. It booted. It worked. Then Gnome showed up. I just fell in love immediately.

I honestly think I couldn't be bothered to / don't want to move back / further on to anywhere else than Arch. It is indeed as I thought. Simple, pure, minimalistic and powerful. Thank you all who are making efforts to keep it this way.

SteffnJ · 2015-08-31 12:56:55

Hi guys, another dude coming to the dark side.

Been using Slackware a few years and enjoyed the learning curve from deleting Windows and installing Slackware on "everything" to become more comfortable Slack user. Recently I've played around a bit with Debian and Arch and I really like Arch so far. Also going lighter (from XFCE) to i3wm. I like writing small scripts and playing around to make things what I want. Looking forward to joining the community that already has helped me a lot with other linux-related stuff (both when using Slackware and even Debian). See you around!

dee.jay · 2015-09-03 10:27:55

Hello all.

I'm Dave. I am from the UK. I started computing at age 4 on a BBC Micro. Since then I moved onto IBM PC's and Windows (Is that a curse word around here?)

Anyway, I've been predominantly a Windows user since 1991, however my job as a Network Engineer means that I am regularly in contact with devices that run Linux in some form or another. However, do not be alarmed. I am not a complete n00b. In 2010 when I joined my company, one of my colleagues who I met there was very heavily into Linux, and I had to start administering RHEL for the purposes of one of the Network tools I supported. Since then I have slowly been learning about linux, and I have installed several VM's (I run ESXi at home) to achieve certain tasks. Personally I am a very big fan of Debian as a server because it is rock solid stable and most packages are neatly available. I used to run a NAS box (QNAP) that needed a better OS so I installed Debian onto that.

I would say that I am an intermediate user, but to me this is not enough.

I am a CCIE and MCSE by trade, so naturally I like to learn it all. In the wake of the recent Windows 10 privacy issues, this has forced me to rethink how I go about being a desktop user. I've been very happy with Windows for many years, and at this point I will state that I am looking to dual-boot Win8.1 and Arch.

However, there is so much more I could achieve by being a full-time Linux user. Yesterday I installed Arch onto my Lenovo Yoga laptop and that seemed to go fine. I have some little issues I need to solve, but I have cinnamon desktop running on it and it is pretty sweet. But, I would like to spend more time with Linux and Arch in particular - so I am about to set aside some disk space on my desktop and go for Dual Boot with Arch.

I look forward to contributing what small amount I can around these parts. Thanks.

drcouzelis · 2015-09-03 13:04:23

Welcome.

dee.jay wrote:

Since then I moved onto IBM PC's and Windows (Is that a curse word around here?)

Nah. Just don't mention systemd.

jvosantos · 2015-09-03 19:26:09

Helloes

LaRueGT · 2015-09-04 03:15:10

I've learned so much from this forum that it seems only right to make a post. I got into linux around 2002, college began and the engineering department's computer labs were all redhat and solaris stations. I scored a job at the helpdesk and got thrown into the deep end right away, troubleshooting stuff and learning as I went.

These days I work IT for a bank, which is all windows. Obviously I enjoy linux much better, but I find the skills I've learned in this world are applicable everywhere. Most of my past I've been a redhat/fedora fan. The main reason I took up arch was the excellent wiki, every idea I had about a change to my system seemed to already have a good arch wiki article full of advice. It seems we are very like-minded people. I enjoy the systems customizability, my digital life tends to favor a few highly configurable and extensible programs.

I live in emacs most of the time if I am doing text. Org-mode changed my life and I don't know how I'd function without it at this point. Python has been my favorite language since a physics class presented it to us back in school, I thought I'd hate elisp and resisted learning it for the longest time, but once it starts making sense it actually becomes a pleasure to use and tweak. I'm also a fan of Blender and gimp, which are huge scriptable extensible programs you can do a lot with as well. My environment is usually an i3 WM full of emacs and browser windows, in that typical solarized dark color. I play with text-mode python scripts in an effort to create things that will eventually get me out of the tech support industry and into development. I feel like I have more to give to society than helping old people with printers and emails.

I used to work in patents for the US government. Being involved in intellectual property really gives you a unique perspective on obviousness and the originality of people's ideas. I think folks vastly underestimate the amount of people that are thinking of the same things that they are, when you research people's inventions all day you quickly find that there is no such thing as an original thought. If you are a young technically inclined person, I have to advise against getting into patents. Their offer is tempting but life is much more fulfilling being the inventor vs the invention analyst.

I want to participate in the forum for more inspiration. In linux world there are often so many alternative solutions for any task you are wanting to do, that it is easy to fall into analysis paralysis and never accomplish anything while you try to pick the piece of tech that is right for you. I'd like to get into web development, music production, and program things that are more interesting and creative than system administration scripts. Even choosing among all the options for a web browser is a tricky task.

I'm hoping to trade experiences with you all and continue pushing towards that ideal system we're all imagining.

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Alad · 2015-09-04 05:40:22

Nice read, welcome.

Ch0b0 · 2015-09-05 15:51:24

Hi everyone,

I'm a software engineer with a specialization in search engine technology. We use Linux all the time on our servers. I decided I would finally give it a shot on my home system and Arch Linux seemed like a great choice. I've been building PCs and gaming heavily since the early 90s on Windows based PCs. So far I'm greatly enjoying Arch.

ozky · 2015-09-05 17:18:04

Hello my name is Otto alias Ozky coming from Finland and now start to use Arch Linux i have used linux since mandriva 2008.1,when it was close first time to go down moved to Mageia where i even joined to qa testing team what test all packages released as updates. I get enough Mageia that there is too buggy package manager and control center came from mandriva and wan't to control my own system and build to be mine Mageia is too ready system and too less packages available.

Ateia · 2015-09-05 23:35:31

Hi everyone,

I'm Kevin from Puerto Rico and I'm a fairly new user to Linux(around 5 months ish) I've recently decided to switch to Arch.
In my quest to learn as much as possible about Linux and how it works. This is actually the first time as well that I decided
to join a comunity as well. So thats a lil bit about me hope to see you guys around!

snydly · 2015-09-07 16:49:50

Hi everyone.

Hope to contribute to some of the math and sciency-related packages in the future. I'll work on getting used to PKGBUILD, AUR, and pacman so I can help. There's some .deb packages that could be converted. (I might be the only one that uses those, but that's still the goal).

longbow_archer · 2015-09-07 16:50:22

Hello Everyone, I just installed Arch Linux for the first time.
It took me a whole day to configure the system and to install my favorite programs.
I like the simplicity of Arch.
Now trying to get familiar with the system.

nomorewindows · 2015-09-07 17:02:25

longbow_archer wrote:

Hello Everyone, I just installed Arch Linux for the first time.
It took me a whole day to configure the system and to install my favorite programs.
I like the simplicity of Arch.
Now trying to get familiar with the system.

Beam me up Scottie!

Arch Linux

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