The Official Hello Everyone Thread

nik10110 · 2015-10-12 15:17:28

Hey all.

Figured I'd pop in as well with a quick greeting. I'm not actually new to Arch or Linux, used to run it as my main desktop some 8 years ago. I installed it in the weekend and things seem mostly fine, except for some smaller display gripes.
While much is still the same other things are completely new...Or then I've just forgotten or never knew in the first place Either way I'm quite enjoying getting reacquainted for now.

//nik

decuser · 2015-10-12 22:47:21

Hi,

I'm an Arch newbie, for sure. I installed my first arch system via virtualbox on my macbook pro a week ago and today, I'm writing this note from firefox running in xfce4 on my "used to be a" chromebook . Things took a while to figure out - like wifi and the touchpad, but overall I am pleased to have a real OS on my little chromebook - now I'm off to figuring out power management and such.

-- decuser

PatrickHoward · 2015-10-13 15:31:06

Hello!

I started using Arch just a couple weeks ago, really excited to learn more through this fantastic community. I still run Ubuntu and Fedora on most of my machines, but really want to make Arch my daily driver. But I love that I have the ability to setup my computer the way I want it to be. Can't wait to learn more about Arch.

--
Patrick Howard | ハワード・パトリック

truthseer · 2015-10-13 21:37:33

Hello to y'all -

I first want to say that registering here was atrocious. I completely understand the reasoning for the "question", but wouldn't it help some to direct newbies with instructions to get the correct answer. I must have fiddled, searched, and Googled for possible resolutions for a couple of hours. I finally came upon a thread indicating that my system clock is wrong. That lead me to correctly setting the UTC time on the registering page. The correct setting is to leave the UTC time Western Europe. Which then asks the question as to why does my desktop clock displays the time 6 hours (daylight savings) ahead of the local (Mountain) time? Using the terminal my system displays the correct local time. Utilizing settings I find the Time and Date settings are correct, but the desktop time is 6 hours ahead. Obviously by asking these questions it surely does show I'm that newbie showing up in town.

What I came to this forum for is to learn how to configure my Manjaro to use fluxbox. I have downloaded a live instance of Manjaro Fluxbox, but don't want to wipe out what I have done in Manjaro xfce to now. I've gone as far to install fluxbox and can now log onto xfce, kde, and icewm. I want to go further with understanding the correct use of fluxbox. So, excuse the ignorant diatribe I am using here. I'll quickly learn the jargon.

Thanks in advance.

Alad · 2015-10-13 22:14:37

The clock is wrong on Manjaro?

http://web.archive.org/web/201504090408 … rtificate/

Ahem. Manjaro isn't supported here. Ask at your distro's boards.

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mdbosworth · 2015-10-14 14:31:03

Hello everybody.

I've been working in Ubuntu Server land for a bit and keep running into problems creating/installing/reinstalling/deleting and the like.

Since my interest in Linux is to learn - apply - use and create, Arch seemed like the best option for me. Just completed the USB bootable drive, and plan to go home and install.

My goals with my Arch machine are:
- Wifi Hotspot (guest, private)
- Local Server (file share - across android/windows platforms)
- mediaserver for nVidia Shield Console
- Usenet/Torrent for TV shows
- and more the more I learn

I hope this message finds y'all well.

I hope to find what I need in the forums, and plan to message/question consistently to keep learning.

btw OBLIQUE's 'create_ap' brought me to this "install Arch already" conclusion...great stuff OBLIQUE

Deuces!!

argypent · 2015-10-14 18:25:10

Hello everbody.

I am a part-time linux user for about five years now (debian, ubuntu, elementary, arch, manjaro, fedora, openSUSE, etc), and i just did the leap of faith, no more windows dual booting, plain arch...
I just have a hard time selecting a DE...
I love Gnome and where they are going, i love KDE and their history coming back from CDE that was closed source, and i love the simplicity of XFCE...
BUT!!! I do not like ALL the gnome software and i am like an OCD addict, going full gnome or not, i do not like the SO MANY KDE features and the preinstalled software (is there a packet like gnome-shell for kde? ~minimal), and i displike the old-fashion way XFCE looks like even after a good revamp...

Can anyone help me choose?

nomorewindows · 2015-10-14 18:28:12

argypent wrote:

Hello everbody.
I am a part-time linux user for about five years now (debian, ubuntu, elementary, arch, manjaro, fedora, openSUSE, etc), and i just did the leap of faith, no more windows dual booting, plain arch...
I just have a hard time selecting a DE...
I love Gnome and where they are going, i love KDE and their history coming back from CDE that was closed source, and i love the simplicity of XFCE...
BUT!!! I do not like ALL the gnome software and i am like an OCD addict, going full gnome or not, i do not like the SO MANY KDE features and the preinstalled software (is there a packet like gnome-shell for kde? ~minimal), and i displike the old-fashion way XFCE looks like even after a good revamp...
Can anyone help me choose?

Maybe you just need to configure it yourself in Awesome with lua.

Trilby · 2015-10-14 19:18:35

Or configure it yourself in Xlib with C

ewaller · 2015-10-14 19:50:34

... Or i3wm

In all seriousness, you do know you can install and run more than one DE at a time, right?

noteless · 2015-10-14 22:54:52

Hello arch forum!

I'm somewhat new to linux systems. That said, arch was the distro I began using after my first linux experience with the debian based distro 'crunchbang'. I fell in love with minimal desktop environments. I've been "using" arch for awhile, but still rely mainly on windows systems.

Joined the forums mostly so I could post a problem I've encountered on my current setup.

thatskore · 2015-10-16 19:54:43

Hello everyone!

Been using Linux for few months already, really really like it, I don't even look back to Windows, now I only look back to which distribution I should chose, well I was really lost, I tried Debian, Ubuntu, Manjaro, etc. I really enjoyed testing Debian, but I really liked yaourt from Manjaro, so it just happened that I installed Arch Linux. I thought it's gonna be harder, but it wasn't that hard, although I struggled few times, installed from a first try, seems to work really well.

Gnome works really well overhere.

tidekiosk · 2015-10-18 06:38:42

Hands down, the Arch Wiki is the best on the entire internet. I've never been a big fan of JGRTFM, but with the Arch Wiki, I hardly have to. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again.

qwertzlbert · 2015-10-18 09:45:17

Hi everyone,

I've been using arch for a couple of years now running on several machines. So I'm not entirely new to it. Now I decided to register in the forum, because of some issues configuring apache.

--qwertzlbert

trexwithajetpack · 2015-10-18 21:17:18

Hi all,

My name is Austin, and I'm studying computer science. I've been a Linux user for a year or two now. I originally made the switch to Linux because I couldn't stand windows 8, and wanted more control over my PC.

Up till now I've used Ubuntu, but wound up running into all sorts of stability issues with it after I changed the DE (can't stand unity lol). I got shopping around for a different distro that would be more customizable, and still remain stable, and ran across Arch. At first I shied away from it since it sounded like it would be a lot of work to set up and had a much steeper learning curve. I finally decided to install Arch because I thought it would be a good learning experience, and I really dig the customizability and rolling release system.

coronacanis · 2015-10-18 21:19:30

Hi everyone,

I'm pretty new to Linux and Arch Linux in general, but I am trying to learn something new. Thanks to anyone that helps me or helps others on our pursuit to learn Arch

rudbast · 2015-10-19 16:39:35

Hi everyone,

New to Arch Linux here, just came from another distro and I must say it's quite daunting, like really. Took more than a day for me to set basic things up, others would be just like a matters of click. Well it might be just because I'm a noob linux users anyway. Oh well, let's get along. Kappa.

Lone_Tigress · 2015-10-20 13:56:59

Hello everyone.

To make a long story short, I recently decided to quit windows. I asked a friend to help me and, after some problems with Ubuntu, he installed Arch in my computer. Whether this was a friendly decision or not, I'm still making my mind. Specially after I've read some of your comments regarding the level of expertise usually required to Arch users.

Anyway, I don't see myself as a quitter, so I embraced this change as a personal challenge. The simple fact that I was able to register to this forum proves that there is already some knowledge gradient before and after Arch came into my life

I'll be following this forum silently, learning from posts with basic doubts and, eventually, I'll feel confident enough to ask questions for myself.

Till then... hard times are ahead of me... but I'll manage.

Cheers!

J.

ewaller · 2015-10-20 14:07:06

Lone_Tigress wrote:

... after I've read some of your comments regarding the level of expertise usually required to Arch users.

First, welcome to Arch Linux.
It is not so much that we demand that users be experienced. To the contrary, we have users at all levels of competence. What we ask is that members use the resources available to learn themselves and ask questions when something fails to make sense. The reception only gets chilly when questions are asked for which answers are readily available. It gets downright cold when we are asked to provide step by step instructions.

I am glad you are running Arch, but, rather than your friend installing Arch Linux for you, it would have been far better for you to have installed it with your friend looking over your shoulder. Make certain you know what they did and what installation decisions they made.

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Lone_Tigress · 2015-10-20 14:21:09

ewaller wrote:

First, welcome to Arch Linux.
It is not so much that we demand that users be experienced. To the contrary, we have users at all levels of competence. What we ask is that members use the resources available to learn themselves and ask questions when something fails to make sense. The reception only gets chilly when questions are asked for which answers are readily available. It gets downright cold when we are asked to provide step by step instructions.
I am glad you are running Arch, but, rather than your friend installing Arch Linux for you, it would have been far better for you to have installed it with your friend looking over your shoulder. Make certain you know what they did and what installation decisions they made.

Thanks

Well, with man, ArchWiki and this forum I already managed to learn some things and overcome some difficulties. So I guess I'll only be explicitly asking for help when everything else fails. Till then, I'll do what I'm supposed to do: use the resources available, like you said.

Yes, having installed Arch myself would have been better, specially because I was not able to follow the installation and configuration procedures. But it's a bit late for that now, so I can only try to learn as much as I can from now on... and hope I'll become an autonomous user as soon as it is humanly possible.

I'll be following this forum, that is almost certain.

Alad · 2015-10-20 17:02:40

Yes, having installed Arch myself would have been better, specially because I was not able to follow the installation and configuration procedures

Feel free to share where you got stuck.

Trilby · 2015-10-20 18:10:10

I could be wrong, but I read that as saying L.T. didn't have the opportunity to follow the installation, not that they were unable. Lone_Tigress, if you have a bit of time, it might be worth starting from scratch and doing it yourself. One of the great learning experiences with archlinux is simply working through the installation process.

Lone_Tigress · 2015-10-20 20:25:53

I was by my friend's side as he installed Arch in my computer. I simply was not able to follow the commands he ran, nor what was really happening - and this was something quite new for me, since usually I can guess what is being installed or configured.

But installing Arch from scratch might be the way to go. Not with the pc at my office, because I need it operational for my work. And running rsync with the wrong parameters already made me delete system files... it was not nice. But I'm getting an old tower pc at home and I'll give it a try. Are there any minimum requirements in terms of CPU, memory, etc?

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riggt · 2015-10-20 22:17:59

Hi, I'm a person who is just now getting involved in the Arch community. I am currently on my third install on my second ThinkPad laptop. I've tried other distros, but I always end up back here at arch because ultimately having good documentation is better than having "it just works" software. I've decided that if I'm going to be so dependent on Arch I should try to be part of the community.

VanillaFunk · 2015-10-21 00:42:41

Welcome riggt

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