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Hello fellow Arch geeks. Greetings from India! Finally made the switch to Arch linux. Hope to learn a lot from this community. Have a nice day!
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Yeah boy!
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Hi;)
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Welcome Aboard, new archers. Enjoy the ride.
tex
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Hello all!
Former user of Ubuntu based distros here who finally made the move to Arch and I'm loving it. Should have done this a long time ago.
Last edited by malix (2017-05-24 11:39:38)
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Hi everyone, as you can guess I'm a newbie on the forum (and OS too ^^).
First, forgive me if you see my english is pretty bad, I'm french but I rather to use the english forum because it's here when the news is publish and process, and for practice my english too, so, don't hesitate to correct me when I speak badly, even if I don't think it's a good place for that ^^".
Whatever !
Why I here today : since 3 y.o I started to care about computer sciences and as I use my computer everyday I decided to learn how use it, and when i discover the "Linux world" I was pretty ... curious, so I started to use ubuntu, more the time goes past more I bore on that distro, until the day where I ear "You like understand what you do ? Go on archLinux", "ArchLinux, the distro for the nerds", "ArchLinux, the distro for people without social life" I'm exaggerate little bit ! ^^ , and as I'm a reference in social domain, I'm here. To put it simply I'm here for learn ^^.
Last edited by chtiStalk (2017-05-25 23:23:27)
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Hi, thanks to everyone,
I'm new and i have been using linux since 2010, the first years with ubuntu, some other with fedora and i've been with arch for three years.
My favorite DE is xfce4, but i left my heart on gnome 2
Effeffe
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Hey everyone. I have been using Mint Linux for a personal desktop for quite some time now. My only real beef with Linux is game support. Steam is helping that out so hopefully more will come our way.
Now that I am somewhat familiar with Linux I want to learn more about how it is put together and how it works. I chose Arch for my first distro to dive into due to it's good reputation. I've been through the install a number of times now. Got a nice little vm with XFCE going. Got my living room laptop loaded up and just need to complete the wireless to have that done. It's been a fun ride so far!
cheers
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Hello everyone, greetings from India. After a lot of distro-hopping (well, ubuntu hopping actually ), a few stints with OpenSUSE and Manjaro, I finally switched to Arch (yay ) Looking forward to learn and contribute
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Hi .
It's a little time that I am wrangling on the forum , and I'll like at least to said thanks to everyone , because I like it : also I was referred about the striclty seriously of this place , that even I did'nt fund ( i.e. extreme straitness ) .
In spite of this I don't wan't to exploit about : hope to switch a little on a more knowledgeable side , that just still /dev/null .
Thanks .
Edith : I am not yet writing correctly - I am sorry .
Last edited by ghus (2017-06-02 17:16:21)
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It's okay ^^
Last edited by satan (2022-11-24 10:24:27)
when night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
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Hi all - greetings from Texas. I used Arch for a few years, then switched to Mint for a couple years. I am glad to be back. Installed Arch on my Acer Aspire R 14 laptop recently, went very smooth... smoother than in the past.
Last edited by BigTex (2017-06-05 00:18:24)
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effeffe wrote:Hi, thanks to everyone,
I'm new and i have been using linux since 2010, the first years with ubuntu, some other with fedora and i've been with arch for three years.
My favorite DE is xfce4, but i left my heart on gnome 2Effeffe
You can always install MATE DE. I feel the same about Gnome 2 and here's my screenshot of it. I'm pretty happy with gnome 2 & arch.
Cheers!
MATE does look nice. Hmm maybe I'll try that too.
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Hi everybody! I stopped using Arch ~1 year ago due to my thesis, which required Ubuntu. Now finally back on the boat :-)
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Welcome back. Out of curiosity: how can a thesis require Ubuntu?
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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Hi everyone, greetings from São Paulo. I always used Linux as a secondary OS, since 2000 with Caldera, Conectiva, Kurumin and so on, but Windows still was my first OS.
Took some time to learning (and of course I still learning) but the community is so amazing and helpful.
And from 9 months to now, I switched everything, from java/c# to elixir, powershell to shell, windows to Arch, and I so pleased with this changes.
Thank you!
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Hello everyone,
My first contact with the Linux world was with Ubuntu 8.04, when I got so fed up with my wireless connection not working on windows that I had to try something else.
That eventually led me to using mostly GNU/Linux based systems, and Arch for the last 3 or 4 years.
Now I thank Windows XP for being crappy and forcing me to make a change.
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Hello!
I started with Atari and Commodore, but first got in touch with linux at age of 14. Back then there were Slackware, RedHat and Debian. Since we were using dial-up, I was pretty much lost, couldn't get any help. So I had to use Windows for (too) long time. Later I started to use Ubuntu - back then I had to write to Ubuntu to get data CD by mail
Now I'm using Arch for a month and everything seems really smooth - without major problem. I lost quite some time to learn enough to install (which is great, I have learned more in a month than using Ubuntu a few years), but after installation, system works perfectly and it seems to me it's easier to keep my system working than with Ubuntu or similar. Really! Even when I got into problems, I solved everything just using Wiki. By the way, Wiki is pure masterpiece!
Best regards, Tim
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Lots of new forum members since I last chimed in on this thread. Welcome, one and all. Enjoy your Arch machines.
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Last edited by trytipARCH (2017-06-09 02:22:10)
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Welcome back. Out of curiosity: how can a thesis require Ubuntu?
My thesis was on a software written by one of my professor, and it was asked to me to do development/testing on Ubuntu, that's all. I'm pretty sure it would have been doable also on ArchLinux, but didn't want to argue on this ;-)
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That makes sense. But I'd have argued
If the software is anygood it should definitely be able to run on another distro if not other OSs.
(edit: the above reads a bit more overstated than intended: portability across OSs is challenging and should not be expected though it is often a worthwhile goal. But portability across distros should just be a given.)
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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That makes sense. But I'd have argued
If the software is anygood it should definitely be able to run on another distro if not other OSs.
Ahah, it already took me so long to make it, that I didn't want to take more time switching OS. The software surely run also on Arch (and, btw, you had my curiosity on this, I will surely try to run it on Arch)
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Hi fellow Archusers,
I took my time to introduce myself here. I'm mainly using macOS at work and up until now also at home. But since I hardly ever use a lot of GUI programs apart from the Webbrowsers I need for webdevelopment, I decided to give Arch another try on my MacBook Pro 11,3 which works surprisingly well apart from graphics switching.
I use neovim for most of everything and mutt to read my mail.
Looking forward to having great times with all of you.
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Hey. Just some guy. I installed Arch for educational purposes. I haven't touched Linux since university (almost 10 years), but given how Big Brothery the whole Internet is becoming, I thought I should re-educate myself and build up my skills again. I've been festering in dull, drudgeon IT work since uni, so I'm quite eager to learn things again.
That being the case (education and such), here are my first two attempts at scripting (I know there's a Scripting forum, but I'm not seeking help, just showing my toys, which I'm quite happy about):
1) Hello world!
!#/usr/bin/bash
echo Hello world!
2) MAC and hostname changer.
#!/usr/bin/bash
#Set up hexadecimal array.
declare -a hx=(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f)
#Set up array of MAC vendor strings. Use only those likely to be legitimate mobile devices in your country. http://standards-oui.ieee.org
declare -a vn=(
"48:ad:08" "2c:ab:00" "00:e0:fc" "80:38:bc" "64:a6:51" #Huawei
"00:cd:fe" "18:af:61" "cc:44:63" "6c:72:e7" "08:74:02" #Apple
"38:f2:3e" "38:25:6b" "30:0d:43" "60:7e:dd" "a4:51:6f" #Microsoft
"80:7a:bf" "90:e7:c4" "7c:61:93" "2c:8a:72" "98:0d:2e" #HTC
"4c:7f:62" "40:7a:80" "b0:5c:e5" "48:dc:fb" "6c:9b:02" #Nokia
"6c:0e:0d" "b4:52:7d" "e0:63:e5" "00:0e:07" "00:1d:28" #Sony
"30:96:fb" "f0:ee:10" "9c:d3:5b" "10:30:47" "38:d4:0b" #Samsung
)
#Extract wireless interface name from ip link. Or just hard code your interface name.
WIFI=`ip link | grep -oP 'wl..' | awk '{print $1}'`
#A couple of new lines for easy reading.
echo -e '\n''\n'
#Get current hostname.
HN=`hostname`
#Show current hostname.
echo -e Your current hostname is: $HN
#Show wireless interface name.
echo -e Your wireless interface name is: $WIFI
#Get old MAC address.
MAC=`ip link | tail -2 | grep -m4 -oP '..:..:..:..:..:..' | awk '{print $1}' | head -1`
#Show old MAC address.
echo -e Your current wifi MAC address is: $MAC
#Assemble new MAC sequence.
MAC=${vn[$(($RANDOM%34))]}:${hx[$(($RANDOM%15))]}${hx[$(($RANDOM%15))]}:${hx[$(($RANDOM%15))]}${hx[$(($RANDOM%15))]}:${hx[$(($RANDOM%15))]}${hx[$(($RANDOM%15))]}
#Attempt to disable wifi interface.
echo -e -n Attempting to disable wireless interface $WIFI...
if ! ip link set dev $WIFI down
then
echo -e "\e[91mFAILED.\e[39m"
exit
else
echo -e "\e[32mSUCCEEDED.\e[39m"
fi
#Attempt to change hostname.
echo -e -n Attempting to change hostname...
if ! HN=`shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/cracklib-small`
then
echo -e "\e[91mFAILED.\e[39m"
exit
else
echo -e "\e[32mSUCCEEDED.\e[39m"
fi
#Attempt to change MAC address.
echo -e -n Attempting to change wireless interface $WIFI MAC address...
if ! ip link set dev $WIFI address $MAC
then
echo -e "\e[91mFAILED.\e[39m"
exit
else
echo -e "\e[32mSUCCEEDED.\e[39m"
fi
#Attempt to enable wifi interface.
echo -e -n Attempting to enable wireless interface $WIFI...
if ! ip link set dev $WIFI up
then
echo -e "\e[91mFAILED.\e[39m"
exit
else
echo -e "\e[32mSUCCEEDED.\e[39m"
fi
#Show new hostname.
echo -e Your new hostname is: $HN.
#Show new MAC address.
echo -e Your new MAC address for wireless interface $WIFI is: $MAC.
#A couple of new lines for easy reading.
echo -e '\n''\n'
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