The Official Hello Everyone Thread

browndwarf · 2010-03-17 04:12:25

Longtime lurker / firstime poster.

Hello!

GapeSnake · 2010-03-17 13:14:42

Hello everyone! As of yesterday, I am now using Arch Linux. I accidently discovered Arch while searching for information on Ratpoison.

crankyadmin · 2010-03-17 13:40:21

GapeSnake wrote:

Hello everyone! As of yesterday, I am now using Arch Linux. I accidently discovered Arch while searching for information on Ratpoison.

+1 for Ratpoison!

/me the only WM for a netbook!

phlex · 2010-03-19 13:27:24

Hello,
I dumped Win7SE before boot and had Ubuntu on it for a while, but I heard good things about Arch.
Since I didnt use it much recently I am trying this out. Had my first problems at install (no optical drive) but now it is up and running.. text based.
I am very new to the whole setup process (Ubuntu does not count here) so you can expect some noob questions from me.
Greeets
-Felix

billflexer2 · 2010-03-19 14:34:55

Hello To All.

TheAccountant · 2010-03-20 19:26:43

Hello.

I have been distro hopping for years... I had Mint installed and was going to use it as my main os, but it was just too bloated.

I just installed Arch and I have to say, FINALLY no more distro hopping. I admit, its a little fiddly to get started, but to be honest you have such an amazing Wiki, thats its pretty idiot proof! :-) I am evening going to create a quick install script so when I break my Arch, I just reinstall, and then run my script to install eveything I need.

A wonderful OS!

Keep up the good work.

ziegen · 2010-03-20 19:56:13

Hello,

I think this is my third time back. I plan to stay this time. In the past I always ended up going back to buntu but its just so boring and I can't stand it anymore.

ziegen

Kintaro · 2010-03-20 22:54:07

Hello everyone! I'm Sergio García and I'm from Mallorca, Spain.

I've been using GNU/Linux since 2006, mostly Ubuntu. I found it buggy so, when I got experience I switched to Debian, but after some months of using it I felt missing newer packages... so I thought about try Arch... and it's awesome! ... I'm using it for a week now and I'm in love with it (sounds pretty exagerated? )...

lives2evil · 2010-03-21 07:29:12

Hello everyone!
I've used Arch for quite some time. What should I say? I absolutely love it.
It's fast and simple to configure. Just perfect for me.
Hope that I could be of some help and receive your help as well

tomislavski · 2010-03-22 11:55:29

Hi,

I switched from Ubuntu, I'm learning Linux finally. Thanks for the great distro and the perfect Wiki!

kmason · 2010-03-23 01:13:34

Hey all, I just tried out Arch on a recent stop of my distro stopping, and I don't think I'll be distro hopping anymore. I love being able to build a system based on how I want it to be - not from somebody else's interpretation of how it should be.

Not to mention, I love being able to install whatever I want, and have it be the latest version 99% of the time.

I built my system on an Acer Aspire One ZG5 (8GB SSD, Atom N270 @ 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM), using PekWM with bmpanel2 and lightweight applications (albeit being graphical), on top of kernel26-one-dev, and it runs VERY fast.

I'm gonna try it out on my Desktop soon (Core2Duo E8400 @ 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce GT220), and see how smoking fast I can make it. I'm betting the cpu will barely ever need to be revved up beyond 1.9 GHz.

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LordMoridin · 2010-03-24 02:46:57

Hey, I switched to Arch from Kubuntu on two of my laptops on the recommendations of two close friends who also switched recently. The difference in speed that I can see is amazing, and KDE works much better.

The only issue I have had is a slight problem with X and my nvidia card on my newer laptop, resulting in OpenGL not compositing, but I am working on that, and will seek help if I am unable to resolve it.

All in all, I love the distro so far, and, yeah, the user installation guide was amazingly detailed! Thanks a lot!

reflets de vert · 2010-03-24 14:20:15

Hello everyone,

I started Linux with using ubuntu. Interesting that it can convince people to use Linux instead of Windows, with automatisation, etc... but it was to heavy for ram and cpu, and very complex.
I discovered other distros like Slitaz, and someone spoke me about archlinux.

I installed archlinux with many difficulties, but now it works well.
I like the 64 Mo and 26% CPU it uses now (with midori, soustracting the 3 Mo of gnome-system-monitor).
It's so great that archlinux make us learn about Linux and computer (I was forced to modify myself the fstab, for example).

I installed archlinux with the wiki that is great, really understandable and well explained. It's not so common in the software world.

I use slim and JWM.

My name is Daniel, I'm 26.
I have interest on organic agriculture, I make myself a lot of fermented food (milk kefir, water kefir, sourdough bread, sometimes yeast bread with self-produced yeasts, fruit wine, vinegar, lactofermented vegetables, beer...)
I militate often for ecology, alternative agriculture, for social progress, other manner to make politics, against neoliberalism...
It's so sad to have this "pensée unique" in economic and political world... but with all these failures and increasing world problems it is evolving.

Thank you all, and sorry for all the mistakes I again made.

serfer · 2010-03-24 19:31:01

Hi everyone!!!
I'm serfer and I'm an archlinux user since November and... I LOVE ARCH!!! I've tried so many distros, but now i've found MY distro!!!

On yesterday, i've decided to register myself in the forum... And now I'm here!!!

Thank you all, and sorry for my bad English... ^^

bye bye

martin77 · 2010-03-25 01:07:18

Hello everybody, this is my second time (well, technically, the third) installing Arch and I'm at a little step from getting full KDE4 running, just resolving videocard issue thanks to agapito and all other cool guys at this wonderful forum.

After few years of amateurish distro-hoping I finally settled some 2 years ago with Ubuntu until finally made it to Arch. I now Arch is THE place where I want to be. Best and happy Arching to all n00bs!

NilsKunnas · 2010-03-25 01:58:47

Hello! I've moved to Arch Linux as my primary operating system.

Nisstyre56 · 2010-03-25 05:22:44

Hi, my name's Wes, and I've been using Arch for a few months now. Pretty neat distro I have to say. I use it on my laptop and on an old box as a home server. I use Windows as my primary desktop OS atm. You may have seen me on IRC before. Well I decided to join the bbs. I'm also interested in music. I play (badly) piano, and drums. I appreciate lots of different forms of music and art. I consider myself a bit of a film buff, but not an elitist. I also enjoy reading; mostly historical and non-fiction, but there are some very good fictional works out there worth reading as well (I recommend Snow Crash to everyone here).

I love cooking, and love eating even more. I'm currently planning on attending culinary school next september. If that works out I want to eventually own my own restaurant or food related establishment, and possibly some kind of creative endeavor.

Oh, and I'll most likely use Arch on a Linode when I decide to get a VPS. If something breaks or goes wrong (not likely if I pay attention), then I'll probably switch to Debian.

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KaSeYo23 · 2010-03-25 13:47:53

Hello everyone!! I've moved from Debian to here, because I wanted a distro which allows me to learn and all that things ....

Well...I hope to learn a lot and also share my short knowledge with everyone who need it.

PD: sorry for my bad english...(I'm spanish )

CrazyMacGuy · 2010-03-26 08:01:07

echo "Hello World"

I've decided to jump in with both feet and join the Arch Linux family... I've been inspired by the forum and the influence of my friend who has been running Arch for the last 6 months... I've heard that things are difficult at first, but I'll have a better system after its all said and done

Hope to see you all more soon!

Zen:Core · 2010-03-26 19:07:08

Hello!

I just moved from Distro hopping to to Arch. I started on Ubuntu and have hopped a lot. ZenWalk, Pure:Dyne, Ubuntu Studio, Fedora, #! CrunchBang (Big Up \m/!) and more. My last experience was trying out Chakra to get a handle on how Arch does things. I got a new computer last weekend and decided it was time to build an Arch system from scratch. It took a night and I'll admit I borked the install a few times and had to start over, but I got it up and running with KDE-Mod by 3 A.M.

I hope my hopping days are done.

Gen2ly · 2010-03-28 03:07:47

tomislavski wrote:

Hi,
I switched from Ubuntu, I'm learning Linux finally. Thanks for the great distro and the perfect Wiki!

Perfect, ehhhh, but thanks for the thought .

Unia · 2010-03-30 13:44:03

Hi everyone!

I've just registered on the Arch forums, so I thought I'd introduce myself. I've been using Linux only for the past two months; just for curiosity to see what the Linux world had to offer and because I messed up my Windows again and again, lol.
Anyway, currently I run Fedora 12. Why? Because it was the only distro that worked on my computer (how strange?) I tried Ubuntu, SUSE, Mint, all those "beginner distro's". They all didn't work so I tried Fedora as a last resort: it worked out of the box. Even though I happily installed it on my computer, I kept searching for the other distro's around and guess what; I found Arch.
At first, it seemed to be too hard for my beginner level, but I was determined to get it to work. Eventually, via dozens of tutorials I managed to get it up and running on Virtualbox. I thought I had finally found the right distro for me so I wiped my hard drive and started installing Arch. After two hours or so I had it up and running, but even Arch runs slow on my computer! So I went back to Fedora, as this is the only distro that runs on my computer (not mentioning Windows here). The idea of Arch always stuck in the back of my mind and as I get a new laptop in two weeks, I thought I'd register on this forums and try Arch on my new laptop. I'm sure I'll get in up and running!

If you've got any questions, feel free to ask!

Gunmetal_Ghoul · 2010-03-31 02:52:22

Hey, everybody! My name's Eric and I'm a rookie Christian school teacher that is also studying to take the CompTIA A+ exams. I started using Linux by buying a retail-boxed Ubuntu 8.04 CD at Besbuy for $20 for my hand-me-down HP laptop. Within a month I switched over to Linux Mint and have been a happy man ever since.

I'm in the process to build another computer on the cheap and I wanted a change of pace to something more lightweight and configurable, so I decided to take up the Arch Linux challenge. I'm willing to mature in both my Linux and general computing knowledge so I figured using Arch Linux is the way to go. I'm looking forward to being a part of such a great community here at the forums, and right now I'm in the middle of reading the man-pages and doing my homework to get things up and running with XFCE. It's a pleasure to be here!

Here's my rig:
FIC Ice Cube barebones PC
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz CPU
160GB Maxtor HDD
512MB PC3200 DDR400 low frequency RAM
128MB Nvidia GeForce 2 FX-5200 graphics card
TP-Link PCI wireless card
Sony Optiarc DVD-ROM
generic 3.5" media card reader

Last edited by Gunmetal_Ghoul (2010-03-31 08:08:23)

mikepjb · 2010-03-31 19:26:45

Hey everyone!,
I've been using Ubuntu for about a year now and decided it's time for a new OS
Arch style!

Zinnaca · 2010-03-31 21:38:59

Hi all!
I have been os hopping for years, though mainly between linux distros for couple of years. Last three were kubuntu, fedora and opensuse. Now finally found home in arch, it just bends my way

Arch Linux

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