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frigger908

Member

Registered: 2010-05-20

Posts: 24

The story of intimidation

Hi there. My name is james and I'm new to arch linux. I have just recently installed arch linux on virtualbox and successfully done so after many times of putting it off saying "This is not for - to many things to fuck up!" Well I did and now I'm really proud of myself (I came into some errors with Xorg configuration wise but looked up some things and bam fixed) I also installed the gnome desktop environment with the gdm login manager - and so far I am loving it. Also the pacman package manager is epic! It's really simple and intuitive - no high learning curve there. I came from Ubuntu and I am sure glad to say that I am going to make the switch (Not on my main computer that has windows; on my new netbook i'm buying.) Well sorry if my ramblings make no sense (I typed this up on the fly..) thanks for reading

EDIT: gonna post the picture of it real quick..

Last edited by frigger908 (2010-05-21 00:32:51)

wonder

Developer

From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: The story of intimidation

now the next step is to install it on real hardware and benefit

btw, welcome in our community

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skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: The story of intimidation

I've got great news for you: You've just got through the most difficult part. I've got weird news for you: 98% of every breakage that happens from now on is your fault! Yay! Welcome to Tinkerland (and the forums).

frigger908

Member

Registered: 2010-05-20

Posts: 24

Re: The story of intimidation

Thanks guys

futuremonkey

Member

Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 49

Re: The story of intimidation

Yes, no longer will you end up breaking your system because you followed incorrect advice from others.  You have taken a step up, and can now take pride in breaking your system all by yourself. 

Your next step is to figure out how to make Arch do all the things you like about Ubuntu, and none (or at least less) of the things you don't like about it.  That's sort of the path I took, and it's lead me to all sorts of, "oh! so THAT's how it works!" moments.  I learn new things every day.

cesura

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Tallinn, Estonia

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 1,867

Re: The story of intimidation

I've got great news for you: You've just got through the most difficult part. I've got weird news for you: 98% of every breakage that happens from now on is your fault! Yay! Welcome to Tinkerland (and the forums).

If I was allowed to use more than 400 characters, that would definitely be my next signature

To OP:
Welcome to Arch!

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ngoonee

Forum Fellow

From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: The story of intimidation

Yes, no longer will you end up breaking your system because you followed incorrect advice from others.  You have taken a step up, and can now take pride in breaking your system all by yourself. 

Yep, now you can break it all by yourself! I do see some really bad advise in these parts though, thankfully its rare.

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