The Official Hello Everyone Thread

nerditup · 2010-06-06 21:24:49

Hey!

I just installed Arch to use as a backend for my HTPC! I've learned a lot in the past few weeks and Arch is amazing!

voxner · 2010-06-10 12:23:00

Hi,

I am from India. My corporate overlords have a strange love affair with 512mb RAM machines so I was looking for a distro that was not hard on them. ArchLinux with openbox FTW!

dragonfi · 2010-06-11 15:13:42

Hello, Archers

I'm a Physics-Informatics student from Hugnary, I've started using Linux a few years ago, that was Ubuntu, quite convienent and easy to install. As I got more into Linux, Ubuntu started to lack in ease of customication and became more and more bulky over time, I started to look for other distros. I've toyed around a bit with Linux From Scratch, just for the educational value. Then a friend recommended ArchLinux for me, after I read "The Arch Way", I knew this is possibly the best distro for me.

Since then, I've installed Arch on a second computer too, it works brilliantly.

igndenok · 2010-06-11 15:32:18

Hello everyone

Before trying Arch I've used at least 2-3 different distro, but Arch is the distro that I'm most comfortable with. Because it's simple, minimize, ease of customication, and it's rolling release. Why need to get new release version of distro if it's only add some (bloating) application that I don't use or you have to upgrade your distro version just because there's no package for old version distro !?

And I just want to say "Thanks to everyone here for everything including Arch distro, wiki, AUR, ABS, and ... (don't know what else beside that) !!!"

Ben9250 · 2010-06-12 00:39:59

Hi everyone, I arrived a few days ago. I'm Ben, I'm a Biology student at university and have recently developed a great interest in Linux resulting from the use of free software like R, EMACS and such for my work. Up until now I've been using Ubuntu but I feel comfortable enough around it now that I'd like to try and get a greater understanding. A lot of stuff with Arch with be completely new to me so I hope I can do it, I like to challenge myself with steep learning curves though.:)

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EdgardoSantiago · 2010-06-12 23:00:37

Hello, just switched from Ubuntu.

ilusi0n · 2010-06-13 01:04:27

Hey all. I started using Arch Linux few days ago and is so awesome. I'm using together with openbox. The install and configuration was a bit hard for me, because I switch from Fedora to Arch. And with the instalation I learned a lot about linux. Thanks for the awesome wiki. I'm loving Arch Linux all the way : )

kernelpanic · 2010-06-13 10:13:28

Hello, nice to meet you all

My nick is connected with my history of installing Arch. I have iMac 20", so I used to boot only one OS. Because of hardware problems (motherboard or CPU) I had a lot of kernel panics during my computer using. Especially when CPU % was on high rate. My earlier uptime was 4 hours max (then some sweet Kernel Panic info and restart). Few days ago I decided to switch into linux. Main reason was to make uptime longer. Second to learn linux philosophy (so not any "wash and go" with default DE) . Read about different kind of distros and Arch Linux fullfilled that.

Now I am using Arch for one week or something like that. There were no problems in installation, beginners guide is really great. Since that time I can see my Mac OS X partition only in df command.

Personally, my name is Oscar. Soon to be student at academy. I'm from Poland.

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bwiberg · 2010-06-15 04:09:08

Hello

As soon as I'm done writing this intoduction I'm gonna do my first Archlinux install

Have been a satisfied Ubuntu user for 4-5 years (since Breezy Badger). Easy to install and make work for a Linux newbie. But a few issues has made me look for alternatives:
- The half-yearly new rewlease schedule, which most times made me go through the a hassle of a fresh install as the update process is not too reliable.
- Feeling a bit more Linux experienced I want to try out a distro where I'm more in control of what's installed and reading The Arch Way has convinced me Archlinux cold well be for me.
- The current tight integration of Pulseaudio in Ubuntu, which make it impossible to pass through directly sound to my Cambridge DacMagic interface to home stereo. At least I could not figure out a way to do it. It did work with Alsa, but that's no longer an option in Ubuntu. But in Archlinux that's what I'm gonna install. If anyone reading this happens to own a DacMagic or similar I would be happy to get some advice.

So I have spent quite some time reading the Wiki, Beginner's Guide, the Official Arch Linux Install Guide and more, downloaded and burnt the archlinux-2010.05-core-x86_64.iso, backed up my Ubuntu installation and ready to go now. Have 2 whole days now to install Archlinux - it's gonne be good and fun...

Thanks for all the support already forund here,
Bendt (from Copenhagen)

magneticnorth · 2010-06-15 08:16:05

I'll bite. My name is Phil. I lurk reddit when I am bored and there were lots of ArchLinux fans there. I had never used Linux before so I figured why not try out something new for fun. My install was smooth and I have been having fun messing around to customize things. I am enjoying how flawless everything runs on such old hardware. I am especially enjoying VIM and Musca. I feel like these will probably speed up some development work I do.

mikeg · 2010-06-15 15:47:51

Hey,

Moved here a few days ago from the Debian clone world (and of course MS). The experience so far has been enlightening. A challenge at times but worth the effort. Running on an old Acer Asprire 5002 laptop. The system seems relatively faster under Arch with the apps loaded so far compared to the distros I've tried (MEPIS, Scientific and hopeless with Gentoo). I guess my Linux skills just aren't ready for Gentoo yet.

Still have some basics to get running/configured, like printing and wireless. Should go fine with somemore time at the keyboard.

Kudos to the development team.

gorilla · 2010-06-15 22:47:04

Hello!!!

after I used some linuxdistributions, wich satisfied me more or less (Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Sabayon, opensuse), I now changed to Arch with Ratpoison on my eee-PC-900. And it's the first distibution wich fulfils my conditions (do you say it like this?)...

athelas · 2010-06-16 09:39:31

Hi everyone.

I am Mario from Germany and I am just about to install Arch Linux. I was used to use Ubuntu and Fedora before, but I thought it's time to learn a more about Linux and how it works and have some more control over the system. I hope that I won't have any big problems with Arch, so that I don't have to bother you

debianita · 2010-06-16 13:35:49

Hello everyone!
Im new in the forum, my english is not so good but y will try to explainme well.
My name is debianita from Argentina...time ago i was use Debian many years but some friend in www.esdebian.org recommend me Arch.
This is my first tread and i join us to learn more about this excelent distribution.
I use Arch about a year and never get a proble with it....
So i hope to people understund my ugly english. :S
Regards fellows im happy to be here.
Debianita

newbee · 2010-06-17 21:39:58

Hey All!! I'm a total noob and not much for typing either! But I am trying to find out all that I can about linux and hopefully transform my MS monster into a better machine! So all the help and info about what to do to get started will be much appreciated.
Thanx

iamblum · 2010-06-20 00:27:58

Hi all! I am totally new to Linux. I decided that if I was going to get my feet wet I might as well jump in all the way; i went from using Ubuntu for a couple days to Arch. So far I'm loving it.

cadmuxe · 2010-06-20 13:48:32

Hello all!
I have been using archlinux for abount one months.
I was used to use ubuntu ,i love archlinux!

DrDuck · 2010-06-20 21:04:40

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quanghuyjm · 2010-06-23 07:13:04

Hello! I'm from Viet Nam and i love Linux alot. ^_^

2435 · 2010-06-23 08:29:12

Hi guys, new to this forum here and Arch in general. As a computer enthusiast and wannabe programmer, Ive always wanted to learn and know everything I can about linux and its intricacies, how it works and so on. After taking a beginner course for UNIX a while ago, I decided its time to start getting serious and ended up choosing Arch. Looking forward to learn much more in the near future.

eclipseagent · 2010-06-24 02:52:41

Hey Guys.. new to the forum and semi new to Arch Linux. Originally started in FC4 / FC5, then stopped with *nix for a while, and went back around the SUSE 9.3, and was using SUSE/openSUSE until about 11.1 (while dabbling in the other major distro's). Around the 11.2 era I went with Fedora on my primary work computer, and installed Arch on my work home laptop.

I'd like to get my main computer onto Arch (work), but it has some dependence on rpm/deb installers (ie Lotus Notes).. that I need to rely on daily.. But I am very happy with it on my home laptop (running SLiM w/ Fluxbox (I'm considering moving to LXDM since SLiM upstream seems dead). Hope to use my Arch experience to learn more about *nix in general, but can see that arch does things it's "own ways"..

But one great thing is the lack of tons of downstream changes like the other "major" distros.

Keep it up guys

cnp · 2010-06-24 23:51:55

I'm new to arch, Installed it this last weekend, got an effectively working system and I love it, much better than any of the other distrobutions that I have used to this point. My computer is more than a few years old and with arch it runs much more smoothly.

kcaze · 2010-06-25 19:36:09

Actually, I have some doubt as to whether anyone reads through this thread, seeing as how there's no replies to any of the introductions.

Anyways, I've started using Linux and learning to program 6 months ago with Ubuntu. I still use Ubuntu, but decided to try out Arch to learn more about Linux and because the community seems a lot smaller (that's a good thing in my book).

The beginner's guide was really useful and I even managed to get dwm working smoothly on my computer. So a big thanks to the people who contributed to the Arch Wiki! I'd also like to get involved with some of the documentation myself so could someone point me in the right direction (and prove that there are actually people that read this thread)?

Ari'osika · 2010-06-25 22:07:31

kcaze wrote:

Actually, I have some doubt as to whether anyone reads through this thread, seeing as how there's no replies to any of the introductions.
Anyways, I've started using Linux and learning to program 6 months ago with Ubuntu. I still use Ubuntu, but decided to try out Arch to learn more about Linux and because the community seems a lot smaller (that's a good thing in my book).
The beginner's guide was really useful and I even managed to get dwm working smoothly on my computer. So a big thanks to the people who contributed to the Arch Wiki! I'd also like to get involved with some of the documentation myself so could someone point me in the right direction (and prove that there are actually people that read this thread)?

Had the same thought, (but I'm sorry I won't be able to point you in the right direction ).

Anyways..

I've actually been a Arch user for quite sometime but haven't had the need/time to sign up for the forum due to the ever-so-good Wiki, Arch forum and Tim Berners-Lee invention aka "The Internet." Now that I've had more time I've decided to sign up and perhaps start contributing to Arch.

When I first discovered Arch; I quickly found out that IMHO it was a kind of Perl hackers heaven. (In other words; the extensive use of the CLI and text files was nothing new to me). Oh, and did I mention I'm a Perl programmer? As well as a Web / Graphic Designer, Printmaker, Artist and Photographer??

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kcaze · 2010-06-25 22:49:24

Wow, do you do all your image processing, and website designing on Arch? As for Perl, apparently it was designed to supersede awk. Can you easily embed a line of perl into a bash script or is awk still more suited for that?

I have plenty of time to contribute back to Arch since I'm still in high school , so I guess I'll just look through the Wiki and start by making small edits (typos, correcting grammar, etc.) and work my way up from there.

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