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schard

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Mod note: Merged the previous two posts into The Official Hello Everyone Thread.

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HeavyFalcon678

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Registered: 2025-05-08

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Greetings and permutations from HeavyFalcon678.

P.S. I use Arch btw

Dreadsleep

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Registered: 2025-05-11

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Hello to everyone from a newbie in Brazil!

gefyrotos

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Registered: 2025-05-05

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Hello to the most interesting Linux community on the net

I'm pretty sure no one will read this - after all when did I ever visit the newbie corner on other forums I'm a member of after the first few weeks of registering? But it's interesting to me to put my thoughts down here about how I got to Arch.

I've always been interested in computers, firstly because of gaming. At some point I learned about torrents and the idea that you could just download and play a game without paying was extremely interesting to me. So I delved deeper.

By delving deeper I mean "kicking" the computer until it did what I wanted - with varying degrees of success. I never did learn programming but I got some idea about how things work. Always on Windows of course (another software I learned you can just torrent - and I never did (nor ever will) pay for a Microsoft product again).

Anyways, at some point I got around to trying Linux. So what was my first distro? Ubuntu of course. Must've been around ten years ago. But I never really got into it. You couldn't play games on Linux at the time and with no programming or computer science background understanding how everything fit together was pretty difficult.

Got back into tinkering around with Linux (obligatory "What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating...") at the end of last year. I tried Fedora KDE and I loved the look and ease of use. But learning a bit more I decided I wanted to use a community run distro with a bigger focus on hobbyism. Then tried Garuda and was really impressed but the changes from vanilla Arch made troubleshooting some issues a bit more complicated and harder to understand - is this package part of the base Arch or did the Garuda devs added it themselves? Why did they add it? And so on.

So I said fuck it and tried to install Arch. Took me a couple of days to figure out everything, especially since I wanted a btrfs filesystem and the drive I was installing on had other partitions that I wanted to preserve - so I couldn't just copy paste all the commands from the installation guide on the wiki.

But figure out I did and having to build everything from scratch helped me a lot in understanding how the whole system, and Linux in general, fit together.

And I fucking love this distro! I have never spent so much time in the terminal.

As a last point of interest, my most important and helpful companion has been... LLMs. I know the aversion many of you probably have towards them and I get it - bogus bug reports, sloppy code, etc, etc. But for learning about stuff they're awesome. They've also helped me a ton in vibe coding small hobby projects that would've been impossible for me before.

Greetings from Greece

Lone_Wolf

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

current number of views of this thread : 3,596,325 .

(in the short time it took me to write this the number increased by 11)

garuda uses a graphical installer, a default bootloader/filesystem/kernel and recommends using their updater (a pacman wrapper).

archlinux is installed from cli / textmode , has no default bootloader/filesystem/kernel and only supports using pacman directly for updates.

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gefyrotos

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

current number of views of this thread : 3,596,325 .

(in the short time it took me to write this the number increased by 11)

lol fair enough

garuda uses a graphical installer, a default bootloader/filesystem/kernel and recommends using their updater (a pacman wrapper).

It was actually the garuda-update that made me think about switching to Arch. I think it only updates pacman packages, but I had installed some stuff from the AUR and I wanted to be able to update both at the same time. I know I could do that using yay or some other AUR helper, but would that interfere with how you're supposed to update things on Garuda?

So now I just run yay -Syu and I'm a happy camper.

ntkumar

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Registered: 2025-05-12

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Hello everyone!

Naveen from India here. I was primarily a Mac user at home but have recently made a switch to Linux (I still use the Macbook for photo editing). Last year I built my own desktop and installed Manjaro, but a month back figured I'd switch to Arch and couldn't be happier.

Looking forward to learning from the community, and contribute whenever I can.

Cheers!!

Patient1413

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Hello Everyone.

I'm Kim, live in the Deep South of New Zealand (Bottom of the South Island).

I'm a longtime Linux user (started out on Red Hat 5.1 in the 90's) though grew up around Unix (SunOS / Solaris) migrated through Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Mandrake before making Ubuntu the primary distro which became my go to for servers. around 2007 I dual booted Mint with Windows. Always ended up back on Windows for proprietary hardware reasons.

Finally got sick of MS a month ago so dug around to see what distros people were recommending, wiped all traces of Windows including boot loaders and recovery drives, then installed Arch on my desktop, laptop & replaced Ubuntu on my servers.

Looking forward to getting involved in the vibrant Arch community.

klobuerschtler

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Registered: 2025-05-15

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Servus! Been using arch since a few weeks now and had my ups and downs with it, but i want to stick with it and learn it's ins and outs. Looking forward to the journey and the community!

bztoy

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Registered: 2025-05-15

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Hello everyone.

I joined the Arch Linux forum to learn more about Linux even though I am now running other distro .

btw, Arch Wiki is the best.

mprokopiv

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Registered: 2025-05-15

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Hello, all! I'm Matt from Victoria, Australia. I've finally had enough of Micr$oft and I'm migrating to Linux. I'm relatively new and I started with openSUSE a few weeks to get my feet wet, but I've just installed and am dual booting Arch Linux on a second SSD so I can really get hands-on and learn as much about Linux as I can.

ReflectKnight

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Registered: 2016-09-17

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Hi, My Name's ReflectKnight, my addiction was Arch Linux... Then I didn't... then I said "OKAY" And I'm back to being a AA Arch's Anonymous Addiction.

Thank you for sharing...

Oh Wait, this isn't an an AA meeting, but hello... I'm getting back into arch, sorry I don't remember nothing.

Last edited by ReflectKnight (2025-05-16 12:21:33)

traecoder

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Registered: 2025-05-18

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Hi guyz.

sircam

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The first post in this thread was made on April 27, 2007. I wonder how all those people are doing now.
I hope you are all well. Sending love to everyone.

My name is Cristian J. Hidalgo. I'm from the Dominican Republic, a self-taught web developer and a lover of everything related to technology and logical challenges.
I began my Linux journey a year ago when I finally decided to completely format my SSD, which had Windows 11, and install Arch Linux. Since then, my curiosity has never stopped-I strive to learn more and more every second I’m conscious.

What I’ve found here is indescribable. The things people can achieve when united are immeasurable, the people behind this community are proof of that.
As Depeche Mode says, "Everything counts in large amounts."

Thank you, everyone, for existing and for the great things you have done for Arch and the entire Linux ecosystem.

greyduck

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Registered: 2025-05-20

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Hi everyone! Longtime newb lurker, first time poster.

I've been using Arch since 2012 and finally have a question that hasn't already been answered in the forum Looking forward to (finally) talking with y'all!

TSM7

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Registered: 2025-05-21

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Great Forum. I lost my job and decided to take up Linux.
So its been 2 months and I am addicted.
I want to give back to the people that clearly contributed to a
community. I have learnt so much and never going back. <3

costacurta

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Registered: 2025-05-21

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I'm new to the Linux world — I've been using it for almost a year. I used Fedora and was happy with it, but as I bought a new computer, I decided to try out Arch.

I was deciding between Arch and NixOS, and ended up choosing Arch, since I felt NixOS would be too demanding at the moment.
I'm using it in dual boot with Windows, and within the first hour of use, an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 broke my GRUB. I had to spend quite some time researching how to fix it (booting from the live media, reconfiguring the boot partition, and reinstalling GRUB).

Anyway, still getting the hang of it — that's it. still don´t know how to use AUR and how to search for packages in pacman. But thats part of the journey.

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costacurta

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I thought I was posting in the  The Official Hello Everyone Thread but created a new post, sorry. Don´t know how to delete this. I'm a real newbie, btw

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dakota

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You can use the "Report" button at the bottom of  your post to bring it to the attention of the moderator and ask them to move it.

Cheers,

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Mod note: merging with the Hello thread.

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degencoder

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Registered: 2025-05-28

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Switched to arch about 2 months ago as chat gpt recommended it for gpu passthrough. I don't know if i got scammed by it but so far so good.
Don't think I'm going back ever. Still keeping a win11 vm around just in case.

DenyAllow

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Registered: 2025-05-29

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Hello, fellow Archers!

I count myself in the Arch Linux community for an entire year, I can install Arch with any configuration needed manually in 8 minutes, I know Bash fluently, I'm able to help people in their problems related to Arch; but I still think I am just another newbie.

I did not struggle with installing Arch Linux for the first time, and when I installed it, I started to have a feeling that this is the system I like and I want to use. This is not my first Linux distribution, I tried a few other ones before and they were good too, but Arch Linux meets the largest number of my criteria: the possibility to make your own system (of course!), pacman as my favorite package manager, large (even worldwide) community...

That's why I still prefer Arch Linux the most! That was a cool year with learning Arch, and there will be much time to learn even more!

I'm not going to say much, so I end this message here. If you read it - thanks for noticing me among others, I hope we will become friends!

yahiagaming

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Registered: 2025-05-30

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Hello everybody .. i am yahia  i use arch wayland with labwc
i hope to everybody great days , years , months even weeks! with arch if you switch from windows you know it's like freedom to you.
im working on a childhood pc latitude d520 because i am poor so this is why i use arch

polyphonus

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Hi,

Not the first time here. First time was in 2016 then I drifted away (manjaro, ubuntu, debian, fedora , manjaro again) for some time. But I'm back with more knowledge and better english.

I vow to only exposing my issues here after google it, AI it and wiki it. Ho and i'm using it on my main (dumb , I know)

I hope to learn a lot with you guys.

radpartyhorse

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Hello Arch World! I'm joining the community thanks to Pewdiepie and Primeagen. I've been using PopOs for 4 years but lately have been dealing with issues and feel like it's time to take control.