The Official Hello Everyone Thread

swanson · 2011-02-05 11:55:07

Hi all!
Just installed Arch on a newly built PC. Worked great! After a pacman update got kernel 2.6.37 and Nvidia 260.x wich worked directly on my TV with HDMI connection. Sound via HDMI was another story but the excellent Arch Wiki and forum helped me with that. It was as usual Alsa settings that didn't kick in at boot without some fiddling. Works great now.

Bin using Ubuntu for 4 years now and compared to that Arch really holds up to its promises and for me just worked! All in all a fresh installation of Arch took just as long as an Ubuntu stable installation, if you include all the bug finding even in a new "stable" Ubuntu version!

lynnwood · 2011-02-05 18:02:11

I am a long-time Slackware user. Decided to check out Arch a couple weeks ago on my old ThinkPad T30. I am liking Arch so far, and for many of the same reasons that I like Slackware. This rolling release thing is also really cool.

458italia · 2011-02-05 22:19:44

Hello everyone,

I'm a long time FreeBSD and Slackware user. In a way I'm a refugee of sorts because I like the simplicity of FreeBSD and slackware, but KMS and friends are proving to be a problem on the BSD side, and slackware's package philosophy has always left me wanting a bit more -- which is why I like pacman and the PKGBUILD system :-).

I hope to stick around here for a good while because this is one awesome distribution!

ontobelli · 2011-02-06 03:17:15

Hello everybody.

New to Linux.

New to Arch.

I have tested at least: Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Vector, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Fedora, PC-BSD and Arch.

And let me tell you that Arch64 is newer, fastest and more stable for me, than other "stable" distros.

And I love the rolling release feature, the latest software versions and it's minimalistic approach.

Very easy to follow the great documentation and Wiki .

I love it!

CycloneJoker · 2011-02-08 19:40:56

Hello, all!

My name is Ben and I'm a student at Western Carolina University. I've been a Linux user for roughly two and a half years now. I've used Ubuntu and Fedora in my travels and I found myself becoming more curious about the inner workings of my operating system. Last week, I came across Arch Linux and it appeared to suit those needs well. I figured it would be a perfect clean install for a hobby machine. I was generously donated an older computer from a faculty member to use for my experiment and finished my install on Sunday! Now I'm ready to begin my learning process in a huge way. So to everyone here, thank you for your patience and for this marvelous piece of software!

haschibaschi · 2011-02-08 19:45:17

Hello Together

I switched back to Arch from Debian. Was already an Arch User before 2 years. But then a pacman upgrade brought my system down with a false libc. After that switched back to Debian.

But the concept of Arch is the best of all Distros and now I'm back again.

Love the freedom, the minimalistic approach and the rolling release.

Run it with fluxbox & xdm.

jpoveda · 2011-02-09 21:33:10

I'm new on th forums. I decided to start using ArchLinux because I really like the philosophy behind Arch and I would like to learn more about Linux. I'm a Computer Sciences student and using Arch seems like an opportunity to learn more about computers and the Open Source way. I hope that in the future I can contribute to the AUR and then be able to form part of the developer team. I certainly like the fact that this is a awesome community of people helping other and trying to open their mind to a better way to use computers which I'm complete sure Arch can offer.

vtel57 · 2011-02-11 23:02:28

Hey Archers!

I'm a Slacker, actually. However, I have the utmost respect for Arch Linux and have recently determined that it is more suited to be my secondary OS than Debian was. You can read about that recent decision and the installation updates by clicking HERE. That link will take you to Scot's Newsletter Forums - Bruno's All Things Linux, where I'm an admin.

I've had Arch on my system off and on a few times in the past few years. It's going to be "on" permanently as of now.

I'm sure I'll be popping in here from time to time to gnaw on someone's ears for advice with this or that. Until then...

Later...

~Eric

-- mod edit: read the Forum Etiquette and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_Code [jwr] --

jasonwryan · 2011-02-12 00:08:07

Merging with the Official Hello Everyone thread...

vtel57 · 2011-02-12 00:18:02

Ah! I missed seeing this thread on the first go round. Sorry about the image, by the way.

Thanks for moving to the appropriate location.

I'm off to read the Forum Etiquette now.

lui · 2011-02-12 14:25:57

hello arch users,

i am from vietnamese and have archlinux installed in my box, a netbook 1024x576 screen resolution.

hope that archlinux will be more popular!

jorg1 · 2011-02-13 14:14:46

Time to say hello !

Used linux on and off for many years, got rid of my windows about three years (I admit it, I was a gamer) ago and started using Ubuntu.

Wanted to try something a bit more challenging and I decided to give Arch a go. Now I think i'm hooked :-)

Anyways, great forum, great wiki and great irc-channels. Hope I will learn enough to contribute in time.

Edit: From Norway BTW

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pulce · 2011-02-14 15:13:52

Hi everyone!

I just registered to the forum but I started using Arch about one year ago, first on my eeePC then on my desktop computer too (once you see how fast a computer can work with Arch is very difficult to go back).

The forum and the wiki are very good, I wish to be able to contribute!

eodos · 2011-02-14 18:05:26

Hi everyone! I'm from Spain and this is the first time I use Archlinux, previously I used Debian and Fedora.

egb · 2011-02-15 17:46:17

Hi Archlinux'ers, if you look the word newbie up, you'll find a picture of me.
I just installed Archlinux a few days ago. :3

qumran · 2011-02-15 20:41:18

Hello Everyone!

I recently started using Archlinux coming from Debian. I was getting tired of always being behind with packages and my friend, lets call him "the fedora user", was always teasing me, telling me that I probably listen to Ace of Base, cause they are just as new and fresh as Debian stable packages ...

... so, here I am. Very pleased with my decision to stop living in the past.
...oh, and yes, I like ace of base.;p

aleritty · 2011-02-15 21:01:22

Hello everyone!
I'm an arch newbie, I installed just this week but for now I'm quite satisfied about the possibility to personalize my system!

Previously i was a debian addicted, and for simplicity on my laptop i was using ubuntu!
But i used also gentoo, mandrake (when this was it's name) and suse (when it was free).

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eklavya · 2011-02-16 18:27:01

Hi
I reached here through archbang and I am so grateful to them. They introduced me to this wonderful distro which I would have not installed otherwise.
I am really liking the arch way. So thanks everyone, developers, users for making this really nice distro.

redcomet · 2011-02-16 22:31:54

Aloha,

I have been using linux for a while already and have been distro hopping until I did a LFS build. Because I needed a package manager for it I installed pacman and of course it morphed my system into some kind of strange arch - LFS hybrid. So to prevent it from becoming a big mess I switched to arch completely .
It's exactly the linux distro I was looking for , very hands on and giving me full control over my computer without the extremely time consuming process for upgrading packages on a LFS system. The documentation and community is great and even already helped me a lot when getting stuck with other linux distros in the past ( for some reason the arch site pops up a lot in the top search results for me )

At the moment I'm running it on my eee netbook, on my main powerful DAW system as a triple boot option ( unfortunately I couldn't really use it for music production yet as I'm a cubase user which absolutely won't work under linux...) and I'm also using it on my home 'experiment' server which I use to test websites and webapps I build before releasing it to the big bad internet. I also have a debian web server which does what it needs to do but makes me feel like living in the past compared to all the bleeding edge arch madness at home !

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Zender · 2011-02-17 20:55:44

Hi all,

New user here too. Not completely new to linux, I've been using Ubuntu for a year now, dualbooted with win7. Last weekend I gave in to the urge and wiped my desktop system. Setting up Arch on it now.
The desktop computer hasn't seen much use since I got a laptop a few months ago (thinkpad x61s booting mint) so I thought I'd make it a home server.

Gr form the Netherlands

Zender

anakai · 2011-02-17 23:00:02

Hi all. New arch user here as well. Used to use Gentoo and Slackware a couple of years ago. After that I was running only windows but got tired of paying for everything I want to have on my comp. Then I started to think of linux again but Gentoo I don't have the time to sit all day long and emerge things. Not since I got a kid. So I tried Arch and now this weekend I going to reinstall it and wipe windows away.
Greetings from Sweden

hippytaff · 2011-02-18 23:05:08

I'm such a noob tis spectacular. I re-discovered the linux world after a bad experience with madrake, when one Day, 10 years later, I discovered Ubuntu. Ubuntu serves me well, but I wanted full control and therefore wanted to try arch. But I was scared of the control arch gave. Then I discovered the arch wiki. and proceeded with the arch install on one laptop and the arch wiki on the other...no looking back...arch all the way (though ubuntu for the missus)

karlhf · 2011-02-20 15:00:48

Hi everyone
I'm Karl, 22 years, from Quilpué, Chile.

I first came to Linux by Ubuntu, about two years ago. I've got a little bit of experience in Linux, and the last month i've read a little "manual" (something like "Linux for dummies", by Antonio Castro), so I think my level of knowledge is beginner-medium

Arch Linux is the second Linux distribution that I've tried, I installed it in friday's night, and I choose it because it's "simplicity", the "rolling release", and that I like very much the Arch Linux's filosophy. (KISS and try by yourself before asking)

Cheers!

Stumpjumper · 2011-02-20 22:37:08

Hi,

I'm Rob, from the Netherlands. I started using Linux some years ago with Slackware. Because of the somewhat conservative and 'hardcore' nature of this OS, I also tried Ubuntu and Debian for a while. Both of these were easy to install, but in the end you want simplicity AND speed. For speed pur sang, one could try Gentoo, for example. However, for me doing the compiling was impractical. That's the reason I've chosed Arch Linux.

I use Arch for about a year now, and so far it hasn't disappointed me in any way. For study purposes I use Matlab 64 bit, and it is always nice to be faster than your fellows doing Finite Element calculations for example . With Arch this is still possible on an four year old Laptop like I own.

@Zender: Mooi, ook een Nederlander. Hopefully you'll stick to Arch too!

Greetings,

Rob

mandos · 2011-02-21 17:02:38

I think it is time to say: Hello Again!

I was an Arch user from the begging of 2006 until Sep2007 when I went back to Windows (I started working at a company as a windows developer)
Many years passed since then and never tried Arch. In the meantime I was trying some live-cds just to see where things were going with linux.
Somewhere around 2008 I learned from friends that things weren't great for Arch but never searched about it.

Atm I'm installing Arch on a netbook. It saddens me to see that some issues haven't changed after so many years but then again I remember why I love the Arch Way.
I was thrilled to see the WIKI has grown a lot and it covers many topics. This means that the community is growing.

I must say that being away for so long makes me nervous again around Arch, it is a new system to me in many ways.
I was also thinking about Fedora, it seemed like a good choice. I must admit I really like the fact that they get most things working and the system is fast and responsive, but then again I thought I should with Arch for old-times shake and because I somehow think how much it has in common with Drupal, which I use a lot!

Tonight I want to have my machine prepared with: X, greek keyboard, opera, openoffice, wifi & 3g networking (ouch...), automounting etc
Hope everything goes right!

Arch Linux

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