The Official Hello Everyone Thread

xaber · 2010-09-26 19:21:33

Welcome all!

P.S.: EO, are you italian?

Nerd_GZ · 2010-09-26 21:18:31

Hello to everyone i'm from spain and i've been using arch since 1 year ago it's a very good distro with people and community users very helpful and good wiki.

Nice place to stay.

See you on another post

panthe0n · 2010-09-27 07:09:26

Hey guys.

I'm fairly new to Linux. Tried Ubuntu a few times in the past but went back to my comfort zone of Windows after about a day or two. Finally got fed up up with Windows after I installed Windows 7 and it did nothing but randomly crash and freeze. I've made it my goal to try my very best to stick to Linux. I've read and seen what it can do, I just need to be weened off Windows. It's a bit of a learning curve so you'll most probably see me ask some stupid questions but I'm willing to learn.

V0rt3k · 2010-09-27 11:31:40

Hello all,

I'm not new to Arch or any other distro, but new to this forum! From now on I post my experiences and share my configs/ideas with others on this forum!

hume's doona · 2010-09-27 11:44:14

panthe0n wrote:

Hey guys.
I'm fairly new to Linux. Tried Ubuntu a few times in the past but went back to my comfort zone of Windows after about a day or two. Finally got fed up up with Windows after I installed Windows 7 and it did nothing but randomly crash and freeze. I've made it my goal to try my very best to stick to Linux. I've read and seen what it can do, I just need to be weened off Windows. It's a bit of a learning curve so you'll most probably see me ask some stupid questions but I'm willing to learn.

Weening is good. I began my linux journey in a virtual machine inside mac OS X. If you want a gentle ween, then running linux in virtualbox inside windows is one option.

bart7id · 2010-09-27 20:25:34

Hi!
I'm not new to linux and I've been using Arch for a few months.

Great to be here

rohit_b · 2010-09-28 09:02:01

Hi all, I am Rohit from India.

Using Ubuntu since 4.10, before that hopped rapidly between distros (got my first PC in Jan 2003).

I have set up Arch Linux in Virtualbox. Then proceeded to install it alongside Ubuntu on my laptop. Currently only the core install is complete. Final aim is to have a Arch laptop.

My reasons for Arch are

1. rolling release - no hoopla and waiting for latest packages in a six month cycle

2. Precise package selection with minimal dependencies - so less bandwidth consumption for upgrades

AdulteratedJedi · 2010-09-28 16:36:16

Hello All :-)

I've been an on/off linux user for over 10 years, Flipping back and forth between linux, BSD and OS X. In the linux world I started out with SUSE (6.1) and then moved onto Slackware when I discovered SUSE just wasn't hardcore enough for me :-D Since then I have experimented with; Ubuntu, which although it isn't quite right for me, I feel has it's place in the market. Debian, Fedora, and a few others.

Most of my time at the moment is spent on the BSD side of the unix world, Running; OpenSolaris for file servers, I went there for ZFS (which rocks). FreeBSD on servers, and OpenBSD on my firewall/router.

My Main day to day stuff is done on a mac, which gives me the best of both worlds, it allows me to do most of the stuff that any self-respecting geek would need via the command line. Yet still enables me to have the best experience for stuff like photo editing (I'm a fan of Aperture), and keeps it relatively simple for the Wife and Children.

As I kind of got into in the last paragraph though, I am not an average mac user. 90% of my time is spent either on the command line, or in Vim fullscreen (I use MacVIM, which i would recommend to any mac user). I am not very GUI minded and love things simple, yet configurable, although granted it doesn't always work out simple lol. Give me tools like vim, screen (although tmux of late), irssi, mutt, etc etc anyday ... and mouse? what mouse?:-)

So this mac user who doesn't use a mac traditionally, has been doing some soul searching lately and decided it was time to revert back. I decided a few months ago to get back in the game as it were, and to try new things to increase my Productivity. I wanted to play around with XMonad, and thanks to uncle google stumbled upon ArchLinux ;-)

Unfortunatly, very much so, I haven't been able to play around with Arch as muah as I want. I installed it in a VM and played with it for a few days straight and really liked what I discovered. However thanks to there not being enough hours in the day.... I am getting more free time now though, YAY

I'm a geek with a thirst for knowledge, who is looking forward to reaffirming what I knew/know, and with the help of arch, learning new things.

Anyways I've kind of babbled on so I expect a load of Tl;dr replies lol, but Hi *wave*

o26315a.i12a · 2010-09-29 14:11:06

Hi all, I'm from Brazil, Arch user since 2008.

shak · 2010-09-30 19:38:52

Welcome to the forums then

swathe · 2010-10-03 02:13:18

Hi guys, I am an Aussie Gnu/Linux user, I use Arch on my laptop and am strongly considering installing it on my Mac Pro as well. I am currently giving KDE another shot on my arch install, but will probably end up going with fluxbox or back to Gnome.

kachelaqa · 2010-10-03 22:03:53

greetings, fellow arch users

i've been using arch for about a month now, and so far i have found it a very enjoyable and interesting experience.

thanks for a great distro!

Thor@Flanders · 2010-10-04 18:52:35

Hi,

Ok, this is about the nicest invite to simply say hello, pull up a chair and feel at home. Arch does all that and more.
I was a windows sob once, found Red Hat 8 (wow long ago) and moved on to FC8 tru FC10 where I had to stop. I needed a rolling distro to truly call my own. Arch...is just that.
So here goes:

<b>hello Arch-World!</b>

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And...an apology beforehand if I bump into any rules or road signs...but hey, I plan to be a newdie for a long while, newbies...love to learn...

Wellness!

Thor

martz · 2010-10-05 19:39:38

hello from weimar, germany.
I am a studying architecture and I have been using ubuntu so far.
after getting more experienced with linux in general, I wanted to try a distro that is not as bloated with deamons and packets as ubuntu or opensuse. A friend suggested trying Arch and I am very happy so far. Also this community was able to answer all my questions. Great stuff.

keep it simple, stupid,
martz

Snowknight · 2010-10-08 03:32:53

Hi there.
I don't normally post in introduction threads. But for some reason I feel that I should post here.
I'm not a new Linux user – I've used it in some form for several years – but I am a fairly new Arch Linux user. About six or seven years ago, I tried Gentoo and loved it. Yet I couldn't commit to it. My machine was too weak to afford compiling everything from source. Arch Linux became "Gentoo with binary packages" when I first heard about it. Now that I've intermittently used Arch over the past couple years, I realize that it is more unique than my original assessment placed it. Within the last two months, I made Arch my default OS on my main computer. The experience has been wonderful.

I'm a tinkerer at heart. More than most of my other Linux experiences, Arch compels me to tweak and to investigate—I enjoy solving the issues I find.

feNNec · 2010-10-08 18:29:46

Hello everybody

I'm a new archer for few weeks, coming from Debian Sid, and Ubuntu before. On GNU Linux since 2005 (year when I quit Windaube finally)
I'm already quite happy with Arch and to join you. No much first install pb. No much tricks while updating. A good beginning. Let it be as long as...

CU soon here

manzdagratiano · 2010-10-09 02:26:07

Guten Tag Meine Damen und Herren! (no I am not German heh )

I made my transition to Linux via Knoppix - I was amazed with how an entire distribution could just be made to run from a single CD... subsequently I moved to Debian, and I became a die-hard fan... I had to make a switch to Ubuntu about a year-and-a-half ago when I finally made a resolve to become Winblows free; I had too many hardware driver issues with Debian regarding my wireless (there was no simple package for iwlwifi two years ago and I got compile errors from Intel's tarballs) and my nvidia GeForce card as well as my webcam, while Ubuntu was instantly able to take care of all of that - and I was very thrilled to have the power of Debian with a "just-works" ease to pick and choose my battles.

I was recommended Arch by a friend first, and my Brother next, but what I was truly amazed by the first time regarding Arch was its fantabulous wiki - while I was googling for kvm instructions... the sheer clarity and organization of content instantly floored me. Arch became the second distribution I installed via kvm after Debian Testing. I love to fiddle with GNU/Linux in general, and went on to create Gentoo and Slackware virtual machines as well... but Arch stands out in a league of its own. The temptation to install a full-fledged version of Arch finally took over, and I am now successfully dual-booting Arch with Ubuntu... it has been a great learning experience, and at the moment I have Arch set-up just the way I want it... with wobbly windows thanks to Compiz. I love Ubuntu for its "just works" attitude when I am in a hurry to get things done... and I love Arch for making me familiarize myself with the nitty-gritty internals, which knowledge I now apply even in Ubuntu.... these two dual facets shall play on in my domain for good!

hitest · 2010-10-09 17:57:59

I finished a clean install of Arch last night; it is very good to be running Arch again. I am constantly amazed at the speed and reliability of pacman. First rate:)

hitest · 2010-10-10 04:32:20

I'm a long time Slackware/FreeBSD user. Yesterday I finished a clean install of Arch. I am impressed with the elegant design of Arch; pacman is an exceptional package manager. My Slackware/FreeBSD skills made me feel right at home with Arch. I am also impressed with the documentation that is available in your wiki. Absolutely first rate!
Thank you:)

stryder · 2010-10-10 07:32:39

Hi guys... welcome to arch. You will find the community here pretty good too.

knuckleheadTech · 2010-10-11 03:01:24

Hello All,

I have been using Linux for a few years now and started using Arch several months ago. I hadn't really gone any deeper into then Ubuntu for my Linux installs before that so needless to say it took several attempts to get my install right. I now have Arch on a desktop and a laptop. I have used several distros like most Linux users and I have decided that Arch way is my way. So I can't say I am a "new" user but I am definitely not a veteran or even an intermediate user yet.

I have attended an open source conference for a couple years now and I have committed myself to putting on an Arch Linux booth next year to go along with the Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and BSD booth. Needless to say I have a ton to learn to properly represent Arch.

skyride · 2010-10-11 03:32:22

Hey lads.

Scotsman here reporting in. Going to be playing around with Arch hopefully fairly soon. I've been using Debian/CentOS in a server setting for nearly 3 years now, and more recently the last 6 months or so I've been using Ubuntu as the sole OS on my laptop. Given the somewhat disappointing and horribly broken mess that Ubuntu 10.10 looks like its going to be and having various problems with fairly Ubuntu-specific software, I'd like to have a bash at Arch as a desktop OS. I've known of Arch for quite a while, and the impression that I've always gotten is that is has a fairly level-headed community who just sort of keep to themselves rather than screaming from the hills and trying to simplify everything for the layman - which really fits my philosophy with computers bang on, so it seems like a perfect match.

Will likely be idling/chatting in the IRC channels over the next couple of days, nice to get to know people.

Cheers all!

Last edited by skyride (2010-10-11 03:41:12)

oscar · 2010-10-11 12:28:24

Hello everyone!

I just picked up Arch again, after not using it in a few years. Used OS X and Ubuntu in the time between (four or five years, I think), but got tired of Ubuntu after an upgrade gone wrong the other week and tried Arch again. Arch is exactly what I was looking for and what I've been missing for a while now, it feels great to be back

tropicalicecube · 2010-10-12 12:15:23

Hi everybody.

Transfuge from Slackware here - hey, no, I didn't say that, I am more of a hopeless distro-hopper, that's all.

My nick comes from my former job, a small freesoftware distribution shack that I ran in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where bandwidth is so expensive people can't 'just download' the thing.

Any distro I set up anyway on the workstation, the laptop or the netbook ends up with Enlightenment DR16. Always.
And I am a fan of Lego too.

Cheers!

Jean-Philippe

Whitespace · 2010-10-12 20:12:09

Hi,

Im a 16 year old kid from the Uk, recently started out with Linux, orginially with Fedora 13 Gnome, but I decided I wanted something different, and after a lot of looking around, I came across Arch, and I really like the philosophy...

I actually got the install disks about a week ago, and installed then, but I have had serious problems with setting up my wireless, however, with a lot of googling and chipping away, I managed to set my wireless up, and I have ended up going for a KDE setup... So now I am running a dual boot with windows setup...

Im looking forward to meeting everyone, and I hope I might even end up helping someone in the future

Arch Linux

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