The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Eiz · 2020-12-16 13:08:08

Hi.

Took me a week of frustration (couldn't get wifi to work), but now (finally).. I use Arch.. btw
50 year old Swede with juuuust slightly above newbie Linux skills (as in 'I want to play piano but my fingers don't agree').
Did I mention that I use Arch?

/Eiz

conor-smith · 2020-12-16 13:24:58

G'day. Arch has been my quarantine project! Looking forward to interacting more with this community!

GSMiller · 2020-12-16 18:35:26

twobooks wrote:

Hello everyone,
a 15 year-old book also running arch in a good way.

it is good to hear that Archlinux contributes to old hardware keeping it alive!

twobooks · 2020-12-17 04:20:03

Trilbyfan wrote:

twobooks wrote:
Hello everyone,
a 15 year-old book also running arch in a good way.
it is good to hear that Archlinux contributes to old hardware keeping it alive!

I am planning to run it for another 5 years

day233 · 2020-12-17 16:58:47

Greetings Arch users, newbie here, started for a few month, i'm turning into a privacy enthusiastic, that's why i decided to learn about Linux Os, started off by installing Ubuntu/Mint, etc..., landed on Archlinux.

tydynrain · 2020-12-17 19:24:43

twobooks wrote:

Trilbyfan wrote:
twobooks wrote:
Hello everyone,
a 15 year-old book also running arch in a good way.
it is good to hear that Archlinux contributes to old hardware keeping it alive!
I am planning to run it for another 5 years

My laptop is a 10-year-old Dell Latitude E6410, and while I've replaced a few parts, it just keeps chugging along running Arch. I do want to get a new system soon, but I love this durable little laptop.

devtop · 2020-12-25 14:05:16

Hello world!

I am a Dutch hobbyist developer, and UNIX user since forever (ca. 2007).
I ran Arch Linux for the last four years, but just today registered to the Arch forums.

There are only three things I need when stranded on a deserted island: A terminal, a filesystem, and a C compiler.

And I'd hope I can help some people and be part of the Arch community.

Trilby · 2020-12-25 14:21:58

devtop wrote:

There are only three things I need when stranded on a deserted island: A terminal, a filesystem, and a C compiler.

No kernel, or C library, or shell?

Last edited by Trilby (2020-12-25 14:22:11)

twobooks · 2020-12-25 18:20:08

tydynrain wrote:

My laptop is a 10-year-old Dell Latitude E6410, and while I've replaced a few parts, it just keeps chugging along running Arch. I do want to get a new system soon, but I love this durable little laptop.

I suggest you to install lighter DE: LXQt or LXDE-gtk3, or no DE just XDM and OpenBox.
if you only have 4GB memory or less, install Arch 32 bit is better.
you can choose i686 or pentium4 package group according to your CPU.
I use pentium4 for my old Pentium M 725 processor.
I use firefox (not for video), the fan is quiet after few seconds during start, don't open many tabs.
QtCreator also works silently, except for building the project.

GSMiller · 2020-12-25 22:05:05

Trilby wrote:

devtop wrote:
There are only three things I need when stranded on a deserted island: A terminal, a filesystem, and a C compiler.
No kernel, or C library, or shell?

No power outlet, or hardware?

tydynrain · 2020-12-26 03:39:16

twobooks wrote:

tydynrain wrote:
My laptop is a 10-year-old Dell Latitude E6410, and while I've replaced a few parts, it just keeps chugging along running Arch. I do want to get a new system soon, but I love this durable little laptop.
I suggest you to install lighter DE: LXQt or LXDE-gtk3, or no DE just XDM and OpenBox.
if you only have 4GB memory or less, install Arch 32 bit is better.
you can choose i686 or pentium4 package group according to your CPU.
I use pentium4 for my old Pentium M 725 processor.
I use firefox (not for video), the fan is quiet after few seconds during start, don't open many tabs.
QtCreator also works silently, except for building the project.

My system has 8GB maxed RAM (7.7GB usable), so I've always had to operate under heavily memory-constrained conditions, and for the most part, I've done very well overall, and I use my system for all sorts of code craziness, so it gets pushed, a lot.

I actually just created the second iteration of 2 scripts and their service file, that manages swap and /tmp on zstd-compressed ZRAM devices, with specific kernel parameters for low-memory systems. It has been a game-changer for me. Notable improvements. I posted both iterations in Community Contributions:

Effective ZRAM Scripts and Service File

twobooks · 2020-12-26 03:50:25

tydynrain wrote:

Effective ZRAM Scripts and Service File

I'll try the scripts, thank you!

samy.abdellatif · 2020-12-26 05:35:54

Hello World !
I've been using Linux since forever and eventually Arch since about 5+ years and registered in the forum 2 years .. guess i'm doing great so far.... I just want to say hello and thanks for the Arch community, I love you guys.

Last edited by samy.abdellatif (2020-12-26 05:37:35)

cajm · 2020-12-26 23:44:00

A few months ago I installed Arch Linux. After using Ubuntu for 2+ years I wanted a bit of excitement and faster boot times.
Well, I got both. Without a DE Arch boots in under 15 seconds, (lightning fast compared to Ubuntu's 2 minutes), and the trouble I had with getting the WIFI working was excitement indeed.
But after the 3 hours it took to install and the 3 days it took to configure, I realized that even if I swap to a snazzy distro touted for being hard to install, my day-to-day routine is much the same and I'm not instantly a linux guru...

Last edited by cajm (2021-01-13 01:48:47)

Smoke362 · 2020-12-29 15:10:06

Installed Arch 2 days ago. I had problem with wifi but was pointed in the right direction to solve my problem. Hopefully it will be smooth sailing from now on. Hello from a brand new Arch user.

SamTornado · 2021-01-03 03:09:13

Just started the Linux II course at my School, first assignment is to find a Linux forum and write about it. Guess what forum I picked?

Anything special you think I should say about bbs.archlinux.org?

Thanks

Alad · 2021-01-03 12:24:39

SamTornado wrote:

Just started the Linux II course at my School, first assignment is to find a Linux forum and write about it. Guess what forum I picked?
Anything special you think I should say about bbs.archlinux.org?
Thanks

For the majority of topics, discussions are strictly limited to Arch Linux. Other forums tend to have a wider (off-topic) scope.

dinodroid · 2021-01-05 02:33:09

I am new here. This place is notorious for spooking newbies, rightfully so.

I have been using Arch as my main system for about 3 months. I admit I railed on the "BTW I use arch" meme.
I love arch for its simplicity, I can make a minimal, fast customised OS of my own using Arch as base.
I have been using other distros like Ubuntu, Mint, and Peppermint for about 3-4 years but I always had the feeling of something is missing inside.
Ubuntu shipped junk and bloat every year and I was sick of it.

Arch installation was easy, just a couple of tries to be perfect on it. I now know what goes behind the OS installers.
Arch is not to be afraid of it is the freedom of use. It is like Hinduism, you can be atheist, monothiest, polythiest but still follow the same faith.

Thanks for hearing me out
dinodroid signing off.

phuturism · 2021-01-05 03:59:45

Hi everyone,

Australian living in Indonesia, have used GNU-Linux for ten years as a desktop. Started ubuntu, then crunchbang, debian, bunsenlabs. Got into tiled window managers so figured it was time to jump to the most configurable distro, Arch. Cheated and used the Anarchy installer.

Current rig, using bspwm, sxhcd, pywal for color pallette on URXVT.

schiz0pr3nical · 2021-01-05 17:56:20

Hi All,

Tech enthusiast here from the Philippines, I've dabbled a little bit in to Linux when I was a student around early 2007. Used Ubuntu and liked that my potato PC at that time runs very well with it. But aside from that, I was mostly a Win user due to the machines I used at work.

Fast-forward today, with the awesome things Valve has done with proton, I decided to have a Linux machine to game on. With some research, I liked the idea of the minimalist and DIY approach of Arch so I went with it.
After a few months of playing with it, I decided to make it my daily driver and nuked my 1TB W10 drive to be the new Arch drive and put the W10 installation on a smaller capacity drive, just for games that are still a headache to install on Linux, and maybe a few apps that I have yet to figure out the alternative on my Arch drive.

https://i.imgur.com/d42ccoK.png

moderator edit -- replaced oversized image with link.
Pasting pictures and code

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TheGreatKingFox · 2021-01-06 06:04:25

Hi there! Arriving from ubuntu ready for the big deals

V1del · 2021-01-06 09:39:28

Welcome, because I happened to stumble on your support thread. While you are free to read and participate in other topics, we can't provide you with support for issues in Manjaro as there are too many different variables that we don't know about that could skew results of the provided help and lead to wasted time for everyone involved.

Thanks for understanding.

boredpanda · 2021-01-06 15:29:17

Hello,

Fresh convert here and I've had a somewhat fast paced journey so far. I ..
.. am a Norwegian living in Sweden
.. have been using Windows since forever
.. started with Linux Mint 2 months ago
.. "upgraded" to ArcoLinux 4 weeks later
.. upgraded to Arch 4 weeks after that, after successful test-installs in a VM

So I've been running Arch for almost two weeks and it's been working flawlessly so far. Why Arch? Same reasons as so many others; rolling release, the AUR, the amazing Wiki, the forums, and the memes. Thanks for having me.

Last edited by boredpanda (2021-01-06 15:30:04)

hilarryhenry · 2021-01-08 23:46:05

2021

pn07 · 2021-01-09 17:06:52

Just joined the forum. Linux user since March this year. Totally wiped Windows from both my machines and made the switch (Linux Mint at first and then Manjaro).

I've done quite a lot of aborted Arch installs over the past few weeks. I would typically get the base system installed but there were packages missing and the system would run like a dog on bare metal or virtual machine installs. I still am not sure what I was getting wrong but I was definitely fouling it up in multiple ways.

Yesterday I did a successful install into a spare partition on my laptop, and one in virtualbox, so this morning I wiped Manjaro from the laptop and installed Arch with the cinnamon desktop and lightdm. The laptop has never been faster. I am impressed !!!

Last edited by pn07 (2021-01-09 17:09:10)

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