Arch Linux

lorebitryo

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Registered: 2025-08-31

Posts: 5

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi!

I'm switching from Windows to Arch Linux, eager to learn how this great distro works!

Edit: I'm reading the Arch Wiki, great job! It is very detailed!

Last edited by lorebitryo (2025-08-31 14:03:12)

ArchEr9

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Registered: 2025-03-18

Posts: 36

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi!

I'm switching from Windows to Arch Linux, eager to learn how this great distro works!

Edit: I'm reading the Arch Wiki, great job! It is very detailed!

Are you going to be using Arch on a new computer (less than 5 years old) or a old one (more than 5 years old)?
And why the switch from Windows?

progoccidental

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Registered: 2025-09-03

Posts: 1

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the Arch forum, but I've been using Arch Linux for several years now. Currently, I have seven systems running Arch.

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zer0ree

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Registered: 2025-09-04

Posts: 5

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Greetings,

I'm Ree, on Sep'1 2025 I decided to switch to Arch Linux from Windows, I always wanted to do it from a long time but I couldn't come to a final decision before, mainly because of some applications and games I had on windows.

But recently while I was configuring something I ran into problems like getting locked out of my system because of Bitlocker, couldn't login into my microsoft account for recoverykeys, won't receive verification codes on time, poor support / long wait time and bunch of other issues like ads, bloatware, and system being slow.

Last week of august, I bumped into the video of pewdiepie about linux and homelabbing which made me rethink about Linux and I decided to drop windows finally.

I understand there is a learning curve since I am not a experienced linux user but everyone starts somewhere , I have installed Arch as my main and only OS.

Its been 4 days and so far I am loving the experience. Looking forwards to make new friends and have fun learning & using Arch!

crb

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From: Romania

Registered: 2025-09-04

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello all!

rcalpge

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Registered: 2025-08-03

Posts: 1

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Robert was here. Future. Be good to the future.

verdevlover

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Registered: 2025-09-09

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hi guys,

This forum helped me solve a problem with virt-manager.

I hope to be of help to others as well.

Arch rocks!

Last edited by verdevlover (2025-09-09 05:19:30)

Hollowedblood

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Registered: 2025-09-09

Posts: 1

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Hey all!

I've never used Linux before, but I have always had an interest in it!
My impetus for action in finally installing it was actually my Operating Systems class in University, which I'm currently taking.  I was required to either set up a Linux VM or remotely connect to a Linux pc hosted by the school to perform various assignments/tasks in a headless Linux-based OS.

Decided that if I'm going to be required to deal with Linux, I'll dive headfirst into the deep end!
Used the archinstall script to set up a small VM for doing school work, but after just 2 weeks of playing in the sandbox, I really wanted to get into the OS more (if for no other reason than to try ricing if I'm being honest).  So last night I buckled in after work and spent a solid 3 hours just reading up on the Arch wiki and getting a manually installed dual-boot Arch with GRUB as the startup, mounting the existing Windows boot partition, a dedicated Linux swap partition (2x my ram size), root partition, and home partition.

thennnn proceeded to spend 3 more hours after Arch was installed just having a blast with picking out packages and configuring things. (I did not get much sleep)

Now I'm here, no immediate questions, but I'm certain I'll have some in the future!

UnkleWyan

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Registered: 2025-09-13

Posts: 4

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Hello everyone. I have some serious anxiety about posting here, but I'm going to try anyway.

I used to use linux 25-30 years ago in high school/college but haven't really used it much since outside of a command or two here or there at work.  It's been mostly windows at work, and at home.
So I am a complete newbie, I read the rules and was a little worried that I somehow didn't install the right version or whatever because I spent a lot of time googling down several rabbit holes to figure things out that I didn't know what it was, or what it meant in order to get things working.

I ran a uname -r and -m and some other research to feel a little more confident in posting so that my posts don't get removed.

I'm just a regular guy, adding to the pool of regular people that want to get away from windows and even though it's only been a few days, I feel right at home on arch, and it feels like I have been missing out on the best pc for me for a long time.

I may not ever end up posting much because there is so much documentation available, but here's to hoping that I don't get turned into one of those examples because I installed the wrong version.  If I did I'll have to try again.

Cheers.

jebarsallo

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Registered: 2025-09-13

Posts: 1

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Hello, World! I'm a Software Developer, mostly done back-end stuff, using C#, .NET and SQL Server. I've worked for a long time on the consulting business, helping customers to build software solutions.

On my free time, I like to read, listen to music (classical/rock/jazz), play chess, and do some walking. I've also begun to learn a bit about human development and self care.

I've been using Linux sporadically for some time now (first Ubuntu, then Linux Mint), mainly as a personal interest, and since the cloud got more popular, also in my work environment. I'm now learning Arch Linux as part of a plan to become fluent with DevOps tools & technologies with the goal of being able to work as a DevOps Engineer on a short-to-medium term.

I'm glad to be here and looking forward to learn from the community.

Regards, take care!

pointerIs404

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Registered: 2025-09-15

Posts: 4

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Hi, There Gentle Man and Gentle Lady, I proudly announce myself now a fellow member of yours. Joke aside have a nice day

Juano33

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Registered: 2025-09-24

Posts: 2

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hello everyone, I started using arch about a year ago and im loving it, I might not consider myself to be a pro or a casual yet, but I believe I have moderate knowledge, and for now everything I need works, and in case it broke I believe I can fix it without having to reinstall. I joined because I really like seeing the problems people find and the solutions to them, so I can learn or, in other words, have a highly convoluted way of reading the arch wiki, maybe one day I'll be the one asking for help or maybe, just maybe I'll be the one helping. Once i'm confident enough in my knowledge that is

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Im (moderately) new!

inductionheater

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Registered: 2025-09-30

Posts: 1

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Hello everyone!

I'm writing this on a work machine because the previous Windows 10 installation broke, and took the opportunity to switch to Linux since Windows barely worked on this old thing anyway (>10 years old). I've used Debian-based distributions before, including Debian itself, but I'm trying my luck on Arch. The installation process was a bit of a pain with a LOT of Arch Wiki tabs opened, but yeah I have a working system now. I only found archinstall AFTER everything is done lmao (could've saved a lot of trouble).

It's been a week of using Arch with KDE plasma and seems like I will stay here for a while!

lostbiker

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Registered: 2025-10-06

Posts: 2

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I've been using UNIX-like operating systems for over 30 years. When I started college, everything for CS/CE was BSD so I got a 386 machine and installed FreeBSD that had just come out. I used that all through college. It was great except Mozilla would hang for several seconds rendering some webpages. I guessed it was due to the system not having an x87 FPU (the socket was empty).  Eventually I installed one and that fixed the problem. Later I swapped out the MB with an AMD 486 without needing to touch the OS at all.

After college all my professional work has been on HPUX and later RHEL as required to run software from vendors like Synposys and Cadence, though my employers always required the use of some Windows laptop for metawork. In the mid-2000 I bought a retail box with an install CD for RedHat and played with that for a while at home. Over the years I have played with all the major Linux distros to some degree. After experimenting with various low-resource Linux variants, in the mid-2010s I installed a lightweight Arch setup on an old MBP that extended its useful life by nearly 5 years.

Today I have a Windows PC for gaming, an Arch desktop for everything else, and a MacBook Air M3 that is overall the best laptop I've ever owned. I've got homebrew installed to get my Linux essentials.

Last edited by lostbiker (2025-10-10 13:44:23)

Brilliant_dream

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Registered: 2025-10-11

Posts: 1

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First I removed win11 from my laptop then jumped to mint cinnamon, after 2 months and breaking bluetooth and SDDM multiple time, I moved to fedora (kde) for a day, but I realised that it was not for me, it was then that I thought of using arch.
However there was already this perception that arch is insanely difficullt and not beginner friendly but I installed it using archinstall with kde any way.
After 1 month I tried to install hyprlnd (ml4w) but couldn't use it at all and broke SDDM again, but then after 2 months reinstalled plain hyprland and am now happily using arch with hyprland, and a super minimal setup.
I am glad I got to this beautiful distro and won't be hopping distors for a long long while, now the focus is on learing to do everyting from terminal and ricing.
Hope to learn a lot fromt the community.

sg76

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Registered: 2025-10-09

Posts: 1

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Hello everyone,

i am using linux for 2 Year. First i am on Linux Mint. Than i try Manjaro and learned loving the rolling releases. Then i ask me, go to the roots of rolling release Systems and give arch a try. I learned so much about the system, my fear about working in the terminal is gone. Now, first i try to solve Problemes with the terminal, arch wikis and the German Linux "Kofler" Bible. I am happy for a very fast system on that i can work... ;o)

keep it simple, stupid!

anacar1s

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Registered: 2025-10-14

Posts: 1

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Hello everyone! Just got hyprland kinda sorta working and I couldnt be more excited!

Prior to this I had no computer background other than playing steam games. I only wish I could've discovered my obsession over this sooner. I look forward to learning with everyone and hopefully can guide others one day as well!