The Official Hello Everyone Thread

clutch · 2010-05-01 22:21:29

Just posting to say what's up.

Just started using Arch about a week ago, digging it so far. Started using linux about a year ago, begining with various versions of Ubuntu (vanilla first, then xubuntu, then eventually a minimal ISO install that I customized into my own little fluxbuntu). Had a brief stint with Slackware a while ago and switched back to my fluxbuntu after about a week. Played around with Backtrack 3 and 4 on and off. Was just way beyond my skill level, plus it just seemed like way too much work even if I did know what I was doing at the time. Kind of idly shopped for another distro for few months because Ubuntu never really felt like a permanent thing for me, and eventually stumbled across Arch.

Been great so far, since the laptop I'm using it has some pretty low specs and I love how easy it is to keep Arch nice and light. Going to switch my much more powerfull desktop over from Xubuntu as soon as I get moved into my new apartment later this month and have real internet access that doesn't come from a Verizon MiFi card.

The community for Arch seems better than what I've come across in the past too (Slackware in particular comes to mind). The people in IRC have been more than helpful the two or three times I was having problems with the new install. Nice to actually get some constructive advice rather than a bunch of snide remarks and elitist snobbery that I've come across in other places.

/edit, just looked at this again and realized that I claimed backtrack to be way beyond my skill level. lol, I meant slackware. backtrack was pretty simple.

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ShawnB391 · 2010-05-02 23:17:06

Hello everyone. I've been a Linux user for nearly 6 months now, Ubuntu is my first distribution. I've been reading the forums a lot this past week and I want to attempt an install tonight. I'm really excited, I had planed to install next weekend but I've got a few hours to kill so I thought why not just try it now.

paedubucher · 2010-05-03 10:01:37

Hello together

I use Linux since summer 2005. I started with SUSE, switched to Ubuntu in winter 2006 and to Debian one year ago.
I really like the approach of Archlinux and will install it as soon as I've time to do it. Today's software usage appears to me like a race against moores law -- with the object of beeing slower. My computer took about 2 Minute to start in 1995 -- and still takes about 2 minutes. The hardware may be 20 times faster now, but the software seems to work 20 times slower. I hope that building up my Archlinux gives me a fast system without stuff I don't need. Learning more about Linux is another goal of mine.

You'll hear from me as soon as I'm trying to install Archlinux

Patrick

martin77 · 2010-05-06 03:47:32

Hi Patrick!

I jumped into Arch Linux on 2010-03-14 and from that day I'm having the most enjoyable GNU/Linux experience ever, period!

I currently run Arch x64 + KDE SC 4.4.3 and boy, let me tell you paradise is right here in my box xD You don't believe me? Try running Zenwalk or PC-OS or any other minimal distro, they're fast, isn't they? Of course they are fast. Well, Arch with KDE SC 4.4.3 is faster than them!! And boot time is MINIMAL, with all the modules I load for video card, printer and so on I get my login screen in less than a minute, much less. Yeah, Arch rocks.

Seriously, Arch is an awesome distribution with an equaly awesome community, everybody here is way cool and warm and better of all they know a lot about GNU/Linux, something not found easily in every other place.

Despite what Arch may seem to foreigners -I myself was one a foreigner two months back- Arch is easy and friendly because it's approach: keep it simple. Arch is also a very robust distro, have an incredible package management and repositories system called AUR which leave breathless every other distro, period (Debian was God to me before meeting Arch). I was long a distrohopper until I finaly made it to Arch and nothing will move me from here, I swear, these guys know what they do. Even you have some of the devs answering your n00b questions, WOW, that's great!

So, my advice is to take your next Saturday or Sunday or next empty day, backup your data and install Arch. Main installation will take you above 15-20 minutes - less when you know exactly what you're doing Then you will need to begin download and install your preferred desktop and when it's finally installed and up-to-date configure it. From then on forget about installing your system again well, actually, I needed three attemps to get my actual system but that's because I'm a n00b xD

I've been using Arch Linux for a little time but it seems I have been running it forever, it's incredible, congratz to devs. But one of the things you should assimilate if you're gonna be an archer is the so called "The Arch Way: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way"
Basically, this isn't 'I'm your daddy and mommy distro, come sweety and ask everything you want to know", no way! You came here and ask for help when you exhausted all other means to resolve your own issues AND, wherever you solve them, you are welcome to open a thread explaining your issue and how you resolve it. Said that, people here are anxious about helping you out so don't hesitate in asking for help but please explain the best you can your problem.

For the record, April 24 was the FLISoL day in all Latin America meaning acronism FLISoL "Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre" (Latinamerican Free Sotware Installation Festival). Here in my city (Mar del Plata) one of the talks was about Buffer Overflow (sweet) and the guy who host it, a very tech young guy uses Arch (www.codigounix.com.ar).

As last note I recommend to print the Beginner's Guide to have it at hand when installing Arch, you will need it, else do as I did: when you do finish installing Arch and boot into your newly installed system install elinks, the cool text-mode web browser so you will be able to check the Beginner Guide online on another tty while installing and configuring base system. By the way, I shoudn't speak about this, but please make /home partition out of / in it's very own partition. That way if anything ever happen to your system your data will be safe. Also, Arch will ask you at a install point to create a separated /boot partition, I made mine 90 mb and it's wasted space, currently it used only 20 mb. However you will see some threads here stating although Arch will complain if you don't make /boot in it's own parition it will work just fine.

Said that, allways you can spend few bucks and buy the Arch Handbook from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ … rowatch-20

Also please take some time to read this interview to Arch Linux devels made at OSNews.com with questions submitted by Arch users: http://www.osnews.com/story/22692/Arch_Linux_Team/ and at my own posting history at the forum for a clear insight on what you shoud expect (http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?search_id=161040706 - if link don't work go to Search and write martin77 in Author search)

Keep us updated about your arching experience. Best and Happy Arching!!!

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martin77 · 2010-05-06 03:48:42

ShawnB391 wrote:

Hello everyone. I've been a Linux user for nearly 6 months now, Ubuntu is my first distribution. I've been reading the forums a lot this past week and I want to attempt an install tonight. I'm really excited, I had planed to install next weekend but I've got a few hours to kill so I thought why not just try it now.

Sweet, tell us how it was!

martin77 · 2010-05-06 04:08:01

clutch wrote:

The community for Arch seems better than what I've come across in the past too (Slackware in particular comes to mind). The people in IRC have been more than helpful the two or three times I was having problems with the new install. Nice to actually get some constructive advice rather than a bunch of snide remarks and elitist snobbery that I've come across in other places.

Despite I have about 70 post here I tender to not consider myself -yet- part of core community since I'm still new to Arch universe, that's why I can take some distance and be objetive in my appreciations.

Arch Linux community is plain AWESOME. They excels in human treat and technical knowledge, and the way they treat me -so well- when I made my very first post made me fill at home right at that moment.

Of course if you have a lot of good people but the distro stinks you will only have a group of nice people getting along for a nice chat. On the other hand if you have an *excellent* distro but people sucks, well, go shove your distro where sun can't lit you and keep your great distro for yourself.

Actually, Arch Linux combines the best of that two things: an incredible distro with and awesome community. And the community is outstanding because -I presume- founders and developers are great people.

Some day I will meet Arch devs and buy them as many beers as they can drink, they deserves that.

Fingel · 2010-05-06 06:43:00

Hey all. Ive been lurking for a long time but I've started posting more now. My first distro was Redhat 8 back in the day. Since then I've used a lot of them (I miss you Mandrake) and about a year ago I tried Arch for the first time. I really liked it but switched back to Ubuntu after my system became unstable. Im back on arch now and hoping that it will stay.
The arch Wiki is by far the best resource for linux related information I have ever come across. Its evern better then Gentoo's. For real.

martin77 · 2010-05-06 13:04:39

Hi Fingel, as now, Arch is rock-solid, believe me, not a single issue yet. Other thing is DM/WE and applications stability, usually devs and packers make *great* job with'em but as Aaron or Allan stated in the interview at OS News many many programs have lot of bugs themselves.

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robert_s · 2010-05-07 09:53:55

Hello,

I'm an Ubuntu user with 10 gigs of unallocated disk space on my Asus Eee PC 1005HAB and am looking for a learning experience with another distro.

Oddly, found this place a few month's back while doing a web search on the off chance that someone might have written any Linux or GNU-GPL documentation in my housemate's first language. I ended up here because a member happened to have the same name as the language. I looked around the forum and the community made a good impression on me. I also find the Arch Philosophy appealing. I think I would feel more comfortable wrapping my mind around the technology that having the technology wrap itself around my mind.

Anyway...

Sometime over the weekend I'll be doing some reading and setting up Arch in that 10 gig of unallocated space I left between the home partition and the Ubuntu partition.

If anyone has any suggestions about reading material, I'd be grateful.

Thanks
-Robert

crabmeat · 2010-05-07 11:42:17

i want to say hello at this point.

iam using arch since a year or so. arch linux was the first distro i really like. i learned to love linux with arch.
not too complex in installation but still flexible. in near future i want to build a system from scratch (linux from scratch) but i think, that arch linux will always be my first choice distribution - it has everything what i need and fairly nothing what i don't need.

martin77 · 2010-05-09 17:24:40

robert_s wrote:

Hello,
I'm an Ubuntu user with 10 gigs of unallocated disk space on my Asus Eee PC 1005HAB and am looking for a learning experience with another distro.
Oddly, found this place a few month's back while doing a web search on the off chance that someone might have written any Linux or GNU-GPL documentation in my housemate's first language. I ended up here because a member happened to have the same name as the language. I looked around the forum and the community made a good impression on me. I also find the Arch Philosophy appealing. I think I would feel more comfortable wrapping my mind around the technology that having the technology wrap itself around my mind.
Anyway...
Sometime over the weekend I'll be doing some reading and setting up Arch in that 10 gig of unallocated space I left between the home partition and the Ubuntu partition.
If anyone has any suggestions about reading material, I'd be grateful.
Thanks
-Robert

Welcome to Arch! My best advice is to stick to Beginners Guide, specially the english version because it's allways up-do-date. I myself was a n00b in Arch at beginning of March and was little 'nervous' about installing something the way Arch is meant to be installed, but once you get the wave you're hooked, promise

Please read carefully the Beginner's Guide: it was made by people who put a lot of love, time and dedication to make things clear to the rest of us. It's technical level is outstanding, everything is there, everything, explained in a clean, flat way.

Putting it simple:

-Ahhhhh....
It's Time to relax
And you know what that means
A glass of wine
Your favourite easy chair
And of course
This compact disc waiting to install Arch on your home computer
So go on and indulge yourself
That's right
Kick off your shoes
Put your feet up
Lean back and just enjoy the melodies (of this compact disc spinning installing Arch)
After all
Arch soothes even the savage beast =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5WxKuoZ5oA

macquarrie · 2010-05-10 19:53:47

Hey eveyone, Ive been using ubuntu and variants of it for bout a year now and now ive decided to try arch. Its really great so far and the few hiccups I have hit dont really bother me because of how muhc im learning about linux and controlling my system. There are still a few wrinkles to work out but they are mostly aesthetic. Im sure the next computer i own will be an arch system and im even thinking about picking up an old PC and adding a large hard drive and some ram for use as a media centre using XBMC but under that i will certainly be running Arch as well.

sages · 2010-05-10 21:41:24

HEllo Arch! i used to use ubuntu and kubuntu, but found it slow and i wanted to understand more about the way linux as such all works then i would Arch which is like making it yourself and i love it! so far this gnome DE i have do is doing good!

Wyrm88 · 2010-05-10 22:15:02

Hello to everyone, started to use Arch a few days ago, at the moment I'm addicted with customization .

Question (noobish one, don't know where to put it, seemed most suitable here): How do you people get the arch logo and system info in urxvt when taking screenshots?

evot · 2010-05-11 06:32:12

Wyrm88 wrote:

Hello to everyone, started to use Arch a few days ago, at the moment I'm addicted with customization .
Question (noobish one, don't know where to put it, seemed most suitable here): How do you people get the arch logo and system info in urxvt when taking screenshots?

I think you mean this..

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32556

And welcome to Arch also..

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martin77 · 2010-05-11 17:43:16

Wyrm88 wrote:

How do you people get the arch logo and system info in urxvt when taking screenshots?

In urxvt!? What in the world means that!? If you're looking for Arch artwork have a look at your /usr/share/archlinux/ directory. Other artwork can be installed in form of packages directly from repos, try using packer or yaourt them, for example: # packer -Ss artwork - provided you have community repo listed in /etc/pacman.conf

sam87 · 2010-05-11 22:52:36

martin77 wrote:

Wyrm88 wrote:
How do you people get the arch logo and system info in urxvt when taking screenshots?
In urxvt!? What in the world means that!? If you're looking for Arch artwork have a look at your /usr/share/archlinux/ directory. Other artwork can be installed in form of packages directly from repos, try using packer or yaourt them, for example: # packer -Ss artwork - provided you have community repo listed in /etc/pacman.conf

i think what Wyrm88 wants is archey....its in the AUR

martin77 · 2010-05-12 17:43:44

sam87 wrote:

Wyrm88 wrote:
... arch logo and system info...
i think what Wyrm88 wants is archey....its in the AUR

Shame on me!! I love Archey too!

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RkG · 2010-05-13 10:13:53

Hi everyone, I'm a hasted ex-Ubuntu user who tried Archlinux and currently, I'm very happy with my current Arch desktop. No bugs, no unused programs installed... everything working like a symphony...

I've used OpenBSD, now I'm using FreeBSD for servers (tried it for desktop also, I've installed it on a spare HD), I was feeling since some time ago that Ubunty doesn't fit my needs and then, when the last update (10.04) messed all in bad way, I felt determined to make the change.

Congratulations to all the people working on it, seems to me by far the best Linux distro today. (I've tried also Debian BTW).

I'll try to contribute the best I can on it.

Greetings

Arch_Adam · 2010-05-13 22:12:12

Hi all,

New to Arch and loving it!
looking to learn arch/linux inside out and want to make freinds with the same hobbies and interests.
also to share knowledge.

add me on msn ...

See you around the forums.

barbs · 2010-05-14 11:53:53

Gday!

I'm pretty much a linux newbie, though I've been learning about UNIX-like systems quite a bit recently. In the past I've dabbled a little bit with installing linux on older computers. I've used puppy-linux, ubuntu and vector linux mostly. The computers at uni dual-boot into Fedora as well. Recently I've wanted to really get my hands dirty and learn more about what makes linux tick. I also needed a small laptop that I could take to and from uni easily. I bought an eee pc (701SD, one of the first models with an 8gb solid state drive). It came with an idiot-proof version of linux, which I wanted to replace with a different version of linux. I wanted a very basic version of linux which essentially forced me to learn a bit about the system in order to get it working properly. I searched around and found that Arch Linux was perfect. It had a page especially for eee pcs, and a simple walkthrough guide that eplained every step of setting up the OS. I was impressed with pacman, and I really liked the whole idea of building up the system from a base, so that you choose from the beginning what programs and features to include.
Right now, I'm running LXDE and using Midori as a browser (trying to keep things lightweight ). I'm still trying to work things out (I have a TODO list), but so far I'm quite impressed, and the computer is very functional both at home and at uni. I look forward to learning more about linux, and learning how to tweak the system exactly to my liking. I love it!
The next step would be to install linux from scratch, but that's an endeavour for another day. I also hope to eventually contribute to open source software...

while · 2010-05-14 14:45:46

Hello Arch!
I'm trying out Arch for the first time now and it seems great! Have been using Gentoo for a couple of years, and still do on my desktop, but would like something less demanding but still powerful and configurable for my laptop. Arch caught my eye.

The community seems active and nice as well. Might help out in the future if I like my stay.

Peace!

ercula · 2010-05-14 16:47:54

Hello all, I finally decided to make an account on this wonderful forum. I have been using GNU/Linux for almost a year, and Arch for about 6 months. This is by far my favorite distro I have tried thus far, and I've tried quite a few (I love with the config scipts and pacman). Due to wonderful documentation on the forum and wiki, I have not had he need to post any questions. If I am able to contribute in any way, I will do so, it's the least I can do. See you around on the forum, and thanks again to the wonderful archlinux community.

flynnjiang · 2010-05-16 08:20:53

Hello everyone!

I'm Flynn. I come from China. So my English is not very good. I like Arch very much!

Thanks!

xMichaelx · 2010-05-16 12:29:18

Michael. IT student. Poland. Used Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, openSUSE. Hope to stay here and be useful.

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