The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Lewix · 2010-06-27 19:15:20

Hey,

I've been using Linux for a little over a year now. I started with Ubuntu and actually still have it on my desktop PC. I recently installed Arch on my laptop though, and am loving it so far.

Tim_Ley · 2010-06-29 05:11:50

Hello all,

I've been using Arch Linux for a couple of months now, and I'm enjoying the experience a lot. I've used a few Linux distributions before this (Ubuntu, Knoppix, Puppy etc) and I've always ended up configuring, tweaking and modifying my instalations beyond recognition. So when I heard about Arch I thought it might be sensible to switch to a distro that was designed to be modified rather than modifying one that wasn't.

Lots of fun so far, and I haven't even managed to break anything yet!

Ari'osika · 2010-06-29 11:18:53

kcaze wrote:

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.

Sounds like a plan, and yes and no; I use my XP partition for the image processing (Photoshop and Camera Raw) and the rest is all linux.

Its possible, but why'd you wanna do that ?? You could easily accomplish the same things just writing a Perl script.

carbonero · 2010-06-30 11:31:11

Hello everyone,

I'm not really a new linux user per se, I've been using linux on and off for the last 5 years. Before coming to Arch, I used Fedora in the early days, moved to Slackware for a while, tried my hand at gentoo, took a little break from it all, and now I find myself here :-)

Other than a few random quirks which have more to blame on the new kernel and Xorg doing crazy things with intel graphics in general (will they ever get KMS completely stable?), installing and using Arch has been wonderful so far!

disappoint · 2010-06-30 16:27:23

Hey there. I'm 18 (turning 19 in August), I'm a part-time Software Engineering student, and part-time Web developer at a small marketing firm. I live in Chicago, IL. I run Arch on 2 laptops, been doing so for a few months now. I'm also into psychology, art (drawing and Photoshop), programming (I only know PHP and javascript but I'm learning half a dozen other languages right now), and biology. I'm relatively new to Linux, but I know my way around it well enough to use it as my main OS.

cdwijs · 2010-06-30 19:21:16

Hello everybody,

I've moved from linux from scratch via ubuntu to arch linux. Linux from scratch was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from it, but after I found a job, it took way to much time. Next was ubuntu, but it seems that I always wanted something other than the default. Arch linux took me 3 tries, but now it's my default system.

My girlfriend still runs ubuntu, but I'm planning to move her to arch as well. But first I have to sort out a few issue's.

Best regards,
Cedric

RozenTensai · 2010-07-01 03:15:32

Well, hello everyone! I'm not as new in the linux world as many other people in this forum, but i'm relatively new here
Besides, i'm not used to write in forums but to use the wikis and the search, so i'm not flooding the forum too

It started about five years ago, when my pc got its first dual-boot between MS and a Yoper Linux, then changed to mandriva and finally, Arch.
I'm really happy with my "building blocks" OS, so it is a matter of time before it will be the only OS running in my PC. At least it had 2 opportunities but the "University" factor made me to go back and use again the MS OS.

Best luck to the devs and "may the force be with you"

Oh, and sorry if my english is not so good, I need to polish it, heh.

So, it's bug-posting time!!!

sp0rk · 2010-07-02 17:05:29

Hello !

I just got my first taste of Arch 2 days ago after wiping a corrupt disk that I didn't have the time or patience to fix. My last distro was Ubuntu, I started using it around sprint of '07. I finally decided to switch because the latest distro (10.4 ) was pretty lame. Seems its been getting more and more bloated over time, and now they have this silly plymouth thing that prevents me from seeing why the OS his hanging on boot and why the X configuration doesn't always work ... This hide-the-details-from-the-user mentality is one of the many things that drove me away from the evil empire originally..

Anyhow, I just wanted to say that the beginner's guide for this distro was awesome. I'm back up and running and quite pleased with the 15 second boot-up time that I'm seeing now. Last time I saw something boot that fast was in the days of DOS.

I'm running on a Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600. Everything seems to work with the exception of the CX18 TV card which I don't really care about anyway.

Worth noting: The Nvidia driver version 256.35 was released recently .. so far it seems to work just fine with Xorg 1.8

pato · 2010-07-04 10:06:26

Hi
Like many guys here I made my first real steps with Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
I am running Arch for some weeks now on my EEE PC and I will use it on my desktop soon, too.
I like the rolling release and KISS principle of Arch and it is fun to work on the small issues here and there on my way to a perfect system

Nice to know that there is a great community, too and thanks to all the devs to make Arch even better.
Regards

AuC · 2010-07-04 21:51:36

Hello Arch Linux Community!

I am AuC, in real life know as Jasper, from the Netherlands. I won't say I know much about Linux, but I do have some experience with it. My first experience was with, I think, Mandrake (now called Mandriva). And a great experience it was! A whole new world opened and I guess it started a little addiction. After using Mandriva for a while I've tried some other distributions for a short time, but I found out that the way many are scripted to make it 'easy' is not my thing. The many so called 'easy' distributions, like Ubuntu, Mandriva, were also very bloated. Not that it is a bad thing - I think it's good to publish easy to use distributions (without it I would probably never have taken the time to install one) - but I don't like to use it. Maybe its because of the perfectionism I have that causes that all the programs that I'm not using feels like garbage that is placed in the center of a living room of a nice villa!

So I looked around and found Slackware. It was the best (well, it was then!) experience I've had with a Linux distribution. Granted, I installed the full package with a lot of 'garbage' (I was too lazy to go through all the package selection menu's!), but because I had to configure many tools in emacs, I had a better overview over the whole thing. It gave me a certain freedom and a great learning experience.

After that I stopped using Linux for a while. I had to reinstall everything one day, and didn't thought of installing Linux. Then, a few days ago, Tux slapped me in the face again and I downloaded Slackware 13.1. I made a nice partition for it and this time also added a second partition to test some distributions I'd find on my journey. After Slackware was installed, I went browsing the www. Tried a few other distributions in VirtualBox when, suddenly, I clicked on a link that opened a very nice, simple, blue-ish page with a nice logo in the top left (I really like the logo somehow ). I found the Wiki, read the Arch Way and thought: That's it!

Immediately I downloaded the NET-install, started VirtualBox, played a bit with Arch, placed it on my test partition, played some more with Arch and now, since today, it has officially replaced my Slackware distribution on my main partition!

It's great to finally have found a Linux Distribution that doesn't have a million scripts which makes you dizzy, and doesn't install all the applications and libraries you don't need. Combine that with Pacman and you've got a nice distribution indeed.

Iota · 2010-07-05 00:07:41

Hello!
I'm not entirely new to Arch, I've been running it for a good few years, though in that time I've never signed up to the forum. I may have been spotted in IRC recently, I'm always on IRC but again I had never really gotten around to putting the channel on my auto-join list.

I hope to become a helpful community member and ease the learning processing for newbies, and I look forward to learning some more advanced things myself. I try to always be on IRC, so just drop me a highlight and say hi if you're about.

Varg · 2010-07-08 09:23:15

Hi,

Let's see, I'm using linux based os for a year now. I started with Mandriva, then tried Mint and Fedora but changed back to Mandriva. I switched to Arch Linux mainly to learn more about Linux itself. Mandriva is a very good distro ( I really love it ) easy to work with, a lot of configurations happen automatically ( it makes installing really, really easy ) and there's a GUI for everything. Now after a year, I have no problem finding my way around the GUI's but when I'm left with only the command line, things tend to get more difficult

I managed to install Arch yesterday, tried it the day before but failed ( GRUB wasn't working along ). I actually reinstalled Mandriva, thinking that it wouldn't work for me but I couldn't resist to try again and here I am I spent the entire day setting up alsa, Xorg and a KDE desktop, configuring my wifi, reading the wiki pages, searching the forum,... I already learned a lot by just installing Arch Linux
Right now everything is up and running, I'll probably spend the next days/weeks tweaking my system to get the most out of it. I'll have to learn to work with pacman, I seem to have a hard time finding packages. Compiling Qt4 applications form source doesn't work yet, ... Guess I'll spend some more time searching the wiki and the forum.

I know that I will enjoy working with Arch Linux, it'll take some time before I can contribute to the community since I'm not really a advanced linux user but that time will come

Regards,
Varg

betawind · 2010-07-09 00:20:24

Hello all, my name is Brad but will gladly go by either Beta or Pinky.

I'm 26, I work for a software company by the name of Lumension as a Support Engineer. The bulk of my experience with computers is Windows related though I've played with Linux off and on for several years (primarily Ubuntu).

I'm finally looking to get my feet wet with something a little bit more involved, something that a GUI doesn't exist for every little setting, and something that doesn't drop a bloated install on your box regardless of your opinion on the matter.

I would like to say that the Beginner's Guide in the wiki is beyond amazing and has already taught me a fair deal, many thanks to the Arch team for that!

Misfit138 · 2010-07-09 01:21:23

hello!
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virtuososteve · 2010-07-09 22:15:07

Hey whats up everyone, ive used linux for a few years now but only the simple stuff like ububtu, fedora, open suse, sabayon and other distros i cannot remember. However i want to try something new, something better and faster than all the previous distros i stated. I have head lots of good things about Arch so im going to try it out. I am not much of a fan of txt installation so if anyone is out there to help me out that would be greatly appreciated, you can just email me or send me a message on messenger. Thanks!

MrX · 2010-07-11 09:59:27

Hi!

My name is Felix, I'm from Bavaria and I've been using Linux for almost one year now.
I've been using Arch for only some days now (together with Kubuntu), and I have to say it's great!
After having read that Arch LInux is made for advanced users, I wasn't sure whether it wasn't to complicated for me ;-) but it works great, and the text installation was much easier than I thought and extremely fast!
Before installing Arch, I've tried Fedora, but that didn't really work for me ;-)

So far, everything works fine with Arch :-)
You do a great job, thanks!

maxselina · 2010-07-12 04:24:02

hello,everyone.I just begin to use archlinux .before that I used lots of linux disturb ,an now I found archlinux is good for me to learn linux . ubuntu is good ,an the opensuse is the same ,but archlinux is better .flexible and clears.

Crouton351 · 2010-07-12 08:12:29

Hi everyone. I'm an Ubuntu user,and I've dabbled in Debian, but I wanted to try something harder. So, here I am! Please excuse my noob behavior.

Montague · 2010-07-12 21:05:50

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dxjuy · 2010-07-13 05:07:02

真的不好意思
我看的懂却不太会说
所以只能中文了

Arch持续发展下去这里应该会是我linux最后一站

BKLive · 2010-07-13 08:31:46

dxjuy wrote:

真的不好意思
我看的懂却不太会说
所以只能中文了
Arch持续发展下去这里应该会是我linux最后一站

I agree...... hello again to the forum, i was gone for a long time but now i am back (mostly due to an over abundance of free time). also in the wiki a lot. Been using arch for like 4 years on/off and now always 'on'.

Used to know a bunch about KDE too! but don't have any idea how 4.4 even looks, so great stuff!

Have now and always did love how Arch hands you the reigns and gives you the tools and information to set up a system that is user specific. All of my computers have a different setup based on my needs for each of those workstations, but they can all pacman -Syu which is a breeze when updating via remote.

Ginsu · 2010-07-14 15:13:29

Around two months ago I installed Arch on my wife's old laptop which she passed on to me after we got her a newer, shinier machine. After wiping the hopelessly decrepit Windows XP install of of it, I had tried both Ubuntu and PCLOS on it, but both seemed slower on the laptop than I had hoped for (they both run fine on my desktop, but that's a much more powerful machine). Around the same time I had a conversation with an old friend who had twisted my arm, back in 2006 or so, to give Linux a try, since I had a fondness for computers but not so much for a certain well-known and widespread operating system that I had nonetheless used exclusively for the past 10 years or so. He had expressed a certain surprise that I was still using distros such as Ubuntu and had not moved on to a "more technical" distro. This struck me as a challenge, of sorts. Somewhere back in 2008 or so I had run across the website of a distro that presented itself as simple, elegant and lightweight, that could be built up from a basic state in whatever way the end user wished. It also was apparently targeted at experienced, competent Linux users. As at that time I did not really consider myself a particularly experienced or competent Linux user, as much as I liked what I saw I decided to leave well enough alone and come back when I felt I might be ready. Bringing this disjointed narrative back to the almost-present, around two months ago, I decided that this might be the right time. Arming myself with the Arch Beginner's Guide, I began the install. I was immediately charmed by the white letters scrolling across my screen as the live CD booted up, which somehow evoked a time when computers seemed less banal and more magical (I know, a word almost ruined by the exceptionally banal iPad), and somehow already I knew I had made The Right Choice.

I set the laptop up with LXDE, which I find to have a great balance between lightness and features, and a handful of other applications. I was delighted with the speed and responsiveness that this laptop, as-if-by-magic, had suddenly started to display. In fact, I was so sold on Arch at this point that I began plotting its install on my desktop as well. Well, without going into too much in the way of bloody details, I eventually got it going. It was a little hairier than the laptop as it has an ATI graphics card, I wanted fglrx, and also I wanted both Gnome and KDE installed. While the machine is set up to triple-boot, with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows XP (yes, yes, but only for gaming, and even then less and less of late) on the other partitions, I find myself heavily favoring the Arch install over the other kids.

Anyway, excuse my rather long-winded post, I had been putting this off for a while. Hello, Archers.

hurleyef · 2010-07-14 19:17:04

Like many, I started using Linux with Ubuntu. I then played with Fedora for a bit and tried out a few other distros before returning to Ubuntu. I wasn't happy with it's outdated packages and cruft though, and decided to give Arch a shot. I had wanted to try it before, but was intimidated by it, due to my general inexperience with Linux in general.

After playing around with Ubuntu and Fedora for a while though I reached a level of familiarity that made me a bit more comfortable with making the switch, so I gave it a shot about a month or two ago. I love it. The control it has given me over my system is excellent. It has proven to be extremely stable while allowing me to use bleeding edge software. Also, I feel like I've learned a ton, thanks to the excellent wikis.

Pacman is awesome, now that I've learned how to use it, I prefer it over even apt-get, which was also awesome. Also, the aur and abs are superb.

Overall, I'm loving my new arch setup, it's the closest I've come to my ideal OS. I'm not even glancing at other distros curiously anymore.

seven · 2010-07-14 23:57:21

Hey every! I'm new to Arch Linux (been using Ubuntu for 3 years). I have always heard of Arch, but never was interested to switch. I have finally tried it and fell in love!

cruznick · 2010-07-15 03:00:01

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