The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Seventh · 2016-08-05 13:25:36

Fair enough.

I dont have enough skills in creating an actual arch install from scratch, but i will one day.

Ill be sure to direct questions and problems through the correct channels.

Cheers.

runical · 2016-08-05 13:34:45

Thanks for understanding You're welcome to participate in the forums, just don't ask questions about other distros.

And if you want to install Arch from scratch, I'd suggest starting out in a VM and just follow the Beginners' Guide. This way you can mess around without messing up your system.

Seventh · 2016-08-05 15:38:42

runical wrote:

Thanks for understanding You're welcome to participate in the forums, just don't ask questions about other distros.
And if you want to install Arch from scratch, I'd suggest starting out in a VM and just follow the Beginners' Guide. This way you can mess around without messing up your system.

I do have one question on Arch from scratch, can you do it without an internet connection all the way to desktop or window managment? Or is an internet cnnection a pre requisite?

ewaller · 2016-08-05 15:47:38

Seventh wrote:

I do have one question on Arch from scratch, can you do it without an internet connection all the way to desktop or window managment? Or is an internet cnnection a pre requisite?

It can be done, but it is not ideal. Nor is it recommended.

What is the issue? That internet is just not available? A wired vs wireless situation? Is there a viable workaround? For example, it is really easy to USB tether a phone and install Arch using a mobile connection.

Seventh · 2016-08-05 15:53:42

Well it is not so much the internets fault, rather the user. I tried 3 times to get Arch installed from scratch and im pretty sure i used up much needed bandwidth each time, i dont have much bandwidth to play with and in no way is this Arch's fault, user error on my part. I am limited for bandwidth at the moment but will try and fix this in future.

Starscade · 2016-08-06 05:05:48

Hello, Arch Linux community!

As an immigrant from the flavourful land of Debian/Ubuntu,
it was a teary-eyed moment when my manually installed system booted to the Arch login.

I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty...

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archification · 2016-08-06 05:50:45

Arch user of five years now. Nice to finally be here. Not sure why I didn't make an account sooner but I'm here now so it's fine right?
Was running xfce for a while. Now on i3wm

Seventh · 2016-08-06 12:32:38

runical wrote:

Thanks for understanding You're welcome to participate in the forums, just don't ask questions about other distros.
And if you want to install Arch from scratch, I'd suggest starting out in a VM and just follow the Beginners' Guide. This way you can mess around without messing up your system.

Ive done this in the past with no success, i think it is just my learning curve, trying again tonight and seem to be making some progress with some help from youtube.

Thanks

Trilby · 2016-08-06 12:40:58

Seventh wrote:

... with some help from youtube.

Also very ill advised. At least with architect, you can seek support from the architect community. With a youtube video you're just out of luck unless you want to try posting a question in the youtube comments.

If you want help from this community, we can definitely provide it - but only if you follow this community's documentation.

Follow the beginner's guide and ask here* when you get stuck.

*here = on these forums, not in this thread.

Seventh · 2016-08-06 13:21:40

Test run install via virtualbox worked with some youtube help,, but not very well. Cant log in as user only root. Cant change display.

Anyhow next time i will follow the wiki, is that that standard way to install, follow the documentation?

2ManyDogs · 2016-08-06 13:23:40

Seventh wrote:

Anyhow next time i will follow the wiki, is that that standard way to install, follow the documentation?

Yes. Use the Beginners' Guide. Youtube videos are usually outdated and incorrect, and are not supported here.

zbiko · 2016-08-06 15:32:52

Starscade wrote:

I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty...

Congratulations. Any interest in a coffee-house Arch meet & greet? I can recommend Gallery Cafe in Nob Hill.

gus4ever · 2016-08-06 20:15:52

Hello guys, i'm a programmer and web security fan. I've been fedora user the last 6 months and the last mont, a KDE neon user (yes, i'm KDE fan), so, I decided to switch to Arch. It's a solid distro, always updated and has the most amazing wiki (really amazing), anyway, Arch is that I need

I've been installed Arch some hours ago, now I'm installing KDE desktop and the f**cking broadcom b43xxx driver

Greetings!

PS: Sorry, my english is so bad yet (i'm learning).

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Starscade · 2016-08-06 21:22:02

zbiko wrote:

Any interest in a coffee-house Arch meet & greet? I can recommend Gallery Cafe in Nob Hill.

I'm game! I'm free Wednesday onwards this coming week...unless you guys already have a date/time you meet regularly?

Jiaan · 2016-08-07 05:16:01

Arch 大法好 [手动滑稽]

MetalYo · 2016-08-10 15:13:02

Hello everyone, new newbie here.

I installed Arch in my new laptop almost a month ago but I've been using Manjaro for 2 years, so I'm not a complete newbie. Everyday I learn something new about Arch and I like it very much.
Wanting to learn much more.

Cain05 · 2016-08-11 03:31:01

Hello

Decided to give Arch a shot after using Ubuntu and variants for a while. I feel like Arch will give me a better understand of how Linux works so I'm looking forward to getting my first install up and running.

masetrax · 2016-08-11 14:04:38

Hey everyone.

New to Arch from Fedora then Debian in that order. Made the switch to learn more about my system and how Linux works, and to have cutting edge packages and the AUR which is awesome.

You can find me on IRC, Reddit and the mailing lists with the same nickname.

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abdulhakeem · 2016-08-11 17:27:08

Hello everyone! Migrant from Ubuntu/Mint here. I saw many people on /r/unixporn running Arch, and I had read that once you become comfortable with the "easy" distros like Ubuntu/Mint then Arch is the best way to take your Linux knowledge to the next level, so here I am. Plus I really like the rolling release concept and the "build it from scratch" approach. I pop in the IRC with this same username from time to time. I hope to one day be someone who provides help, instead only asking for it

ternaldius · 2016-08-12 15:17:35

Bit of a newbie here. Was attracted to Arch for it's simplicity and customizabilitly. One day, I'll get into Gentoo too I think. Been using GNOME as Desktop Environment but ultimately settled for FluxBox because I can pretty much tweak it all the way.

This seems like a great community. I was just thinking, beside the handbook that's for sale and the wiki, will we see a pdf manual soon?

the_Seppi · 2016-08-12 23:47:06

Hi everyone!

TL;DR: I'm new here, too.

Computer Science student from Switzerland here. I was first introduced to Linux when my father showed me Xubuntu. I must have been around 10 or so back then, and I had basically no idea what I was doing when meddling with files in /etc/. I dual booted a long time, until Windows 7 came around and I accidentally wiped my Xubuntu install when installing it. About 4 years or so ago I started dual-booting again, this time with Windows 7 and Ubuntu and its - as I thought back then - marvelous Unity desktop. After about a year I wiped Windows from my computer and stayed with Ubuntu. However, as my experience (especially regarding command line) increased, Unity became more and more awkward to use, so I jumped from desktop to desktop, including LXDE, good ol' Xfce, KDE, even GNOME 3, and finally ended up with Cinnamon. Soon, I switched to Linux Mint, as it brought Cinnamon out of the box and was as well preconfigured as possible and I'm a lazy guy, so hey, why not use it... And again I delved into the depths of the system multiple times and discovered the beauty of Linux (or more generally UNIXoides). I was happy with Mint for a long time. Until now.
Mint, as we all know, heavily depends on Ubuntu (or LMDE on Debian), and Canonical has developed and is developing in a direction I prefer not to follow. So I started looking for a replacement, basically weighing Arch Linux against LMDE or pure Debian, and eventually ended up here. At first it looked kinda scary, but after installing and breaking Arch Linux multiple times in VMs, I knew I finally arrived at home
So that's my story. This week I wiped my drives (after making a backup of course). One minute before I booted the archiso stick to wipe my SSD, my boss called, and asked me to fix a minor flaw in our code. (I use my private device for work) So after fixing the bug and submitting it for testing, I went on and finally wiped those drives. And I installed Arch Linux with a lot of nice features such as full disk encryption and self-generated Secure Boot Keys

PS: At this point, I want to thank everyone that has ever contributed to the Arch Wiki. Even in my Ubuntu/Mint times, about two out of three problems I were able to fix thanks to this awesome Wiki. Together with a friend, I've come to the conclusion that a problem is either somehow mentioned in the Arch Wiki, or it is only imaginary.

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defcon · 2016-08-13 11:07:36

Welcome to the forum :-)

mbigras · 2016-08-14 20:51:52

Hello all,

I'm currently barting into sf every day from the east bay to attend a web development bootcamp and recently learned about what devops generally means to some people sometimes （ゝ‿ ・）so I've been trying to dig into more *nix history in the hopes of getting into that field. In highschool and through college I ran ubuntu, now I'm very excited to get going with arch. @zbiko and @Starscade, I'm very interested to meet for coffee and talk more. I saw I missed it yesterday, how about sometime this week?

Starscade · 2016-08-14 22:57:23

mbigras wrote:

I'm very interested to meet for coffee and talk more. I saw I missed it yesterday, how about sometime this week?

Hello, mbigras! zbiko and I do plan to meet up again soon as time permits. I'll be sure to include you in the conversation.

netlexer · 2016-08-19 10:07:27

Hello everyone. I've been using Linux for a long time, but only recently started using Arch as my main distro. Looking forward to participating in the forums, and hopefully in the process give something back to the community. I'm a big fan of the command line - I'm currently in the process of (finally!) switching from bash to zsh.

Cheers!

Arch Linux

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