The Official Hello Everyone Thread

lutherus · 2011-03-19 14:13:19

Inxsible wrote:

welcome lutherus... its funny, I was actually gonna try out Slackware over this weekend.

i don`t recomend slackware.don`t get me wrong.slackware is an very god distro,and easy to install.but lot of slackware users and developers are changing slackware with arch,gentoo or debian

ind · 2011-03-19 19:25:27

Hello, Arch-ers!
Second time I put Arch on my machine, decide finally I've to register on the forum. Hope all of you have lots of fun while rolling

cenobyte · 2011-03-21 04:24:06

Hi all i have been a Linux user since 2005 i started with mepis then moved to ubuntu and branched out from there using other distros like linux mint , debian , tinycore , fedora , opensuse over the years.

I have finally settled on Arch Linux i have been using it for a little while now of course i had some breakage here and there but after consulting the wiki all is well i must say this is the best documented Linux Distro i have used yet plus i only install what i use

-cenobyte

Edward_m · 2011-03-21 05:03:40

it seems it's been four years,hello to everyone though

the sad clown · 2011-03-22 01:19:40

Hello, my name is Isaac, living in Texas. I came to Linux through Ubuntu and used that for a few years before trying out Crunchbang. It was their forums that introduced me to Arch. I really like having cutting edge software and tinkering with my OS, and Arch seemed like a perfect match for what I was looking for.

mencargo · 2011-03-22 04:36:52

I've being a computer enthusiast since Windows 3.11,95,98,XP,7.
Studied Computer Engineer, passing through Win NT,2003,2008.
Tried Debian and Ubuntu several times, and tested some others like BackTrack, CentOS, ...
Always wanted to migrate for Linux, but having to support different needs at school kept me with Windows, latter on I just got confortable with Windows 7, until recently that I tested Ubuntu 10.10 x64 with my Laptop for work.
Founded everything I needed, and faster than Windows 7, removed some packages and services to boot faster...
Became obsessed with performance, recompiled the Kernel.
Boot times dropped down to less than 10 seconds and instant shutdowns. (I'm using SSD)

In the mean time, an old friend once asked me for the "fastest linux", to what I suggested Gentoo, that I had tried but never compiled it successfully. For which he found a guide of he's laptop model and got it working, and became more obsessed than me about performance, I think I recall a <60Mb memory consumption after boot.
He even switched from qwerty to dvorak... That's ... too much for me.
Later on he was searching for a "simpler" linux, and I told him about Archlinux, that I read about and sounded great because of the rolling state, the i686_x64 kernels and pacman.

My Ubuntu started struggling with window events, I blamed compiz, so my friend suggested Openbox.
Got it working and love it's minimalistic form. Made hotkeys for my usual software, aliases...
I felt like in a real Linux, hehe XD

One day he told me, come to Arch, it's a Linux for real men.
Now I'm spending days configuring SLiM + Openbox to get my software working as I want, but I think it's worth it.
Latter on I'm planning to install Arch at my Desktop, and maybe one day, get rid of Windows 7, that now only serves for gaming and foobar.

Cheers!

I'm Diego, from Mexico, please excuse my poor english.

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IncredibleLaser · 2011-03-22 09:41:14

One day he told me, come to Arch, it's a Linux for real men.

8)

phrac · 2011-03-22 13:02:23

I'd like to say hi to all the other new peeps here and a big thanks to the devs of Arch. What an amazing OS! I've used Ubuntu, Mint, Crunchbang etc but never really found an OS that I really felt that was perfect until now. Thanks to the authors of the Wikis which have been a great companion along the journey so far.

oalicein · 2011-03-25 07:09:51

I'm a new Linux user (as in, a couple months--finally settled on Arch, which is unbelievably sexy). Just wanted to finally say hullo and that the Arch forums are probably the most visually appealing I have ever seen.

Looking forward to getting support and stuff.

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venancio · 2011-03-26 17:06:45

Hi everyone!

I hope be here many years. Great community and great distro!

pritamps · 2011-03-27 05:11:26

Hello...

Using Arch for about a week now. Installed gnome shell and loving it, I must say!

jamesravey · 2011-03-27 13:03:39

Hi All,

Just thought I'd show my head. I've been looking for a nice bespoke distro for a while now. Arch is Lovely, I'll be sticking to it from now on ^_^

I'm a CompSci student in England btw

Hope to speak to you all soon!

dodo3773 · 2011-03-27 17:45:39

Brand new to Arch. I like it a lot so far. Once I figured out that my mirrors were out of date I was stoked on the new software that was available through the regular repos (firefox 4, etc..) just by updating. The aur is pretty large too with lots of apps which is also awesome. I am so used to adding repo after repo in other distros that that is kind of nice.

Kalmar · 2011-03-27 18:22:10

Hello world!

Brand new to arch here too Been using it for... 1-2 weeks and i'm loving it

hans796 · 2011-03-27 21:58:44

Hi I am hans and I live in sweden.

I've been twiddling around with different linux distros for 4-5 years.

I started with mandriva. Went over to ubuntu and thanks to them became curious of debian.

I just want to thank everyone who is envolved in the arch-wiki pages.

The wiki pages has been a great help to me, without them hmm..

Thanks to the wiki-guys (girls?) I have kde4 up and running smooth as he..

If there is an archie out there, thanks archie (joke).

Archgreetz from sweden..

mjdwitt · 2011-03-28 13:02:34

I first loaded Arch on a computer of mine about a year ago during a phase when I was just messing around with a new distribution every couple of weeks. After that first Arch experience, however, I kept on finding myself back on the Wiki and BBS whenever I ran into a problem on another distro. Obviously, the support wasn't exactly translatable to whatever distro I happened to be running at the time that wasn't Arch, but often times it was still far better than whatever the community of that distro had to offer. (I'm looking at you, Gentoo.)

About a month ago I decided to finally make the break from Windows and I've been running Arch full-time on this machine for the past three weeks. The only thing that I haven't been able to leave behind is Visual Studio (for a VB.NET class), which I've been running in a Windows VirtualBox, since I can't seem to find a good GNU (or even just Linux-compatible) replacement. That class will be over in a couple of months though, at which point I'll be glad to only ever boot into Windows for an occasional bit of nostalgic Morrowind.

Thanks for such a great community; I hope to be able to contribute in any way I can!

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martinoff · 2011-03-28 19:29:02

hi all archers

nice distro ,helpful forum beautiful wiki

Kooothor · 2011-03-28 19:42:09

Welcome !!!

Tycon712 · 2011-03-29 05:28:14

I've been running Arch for over a year now, but have completely forgotten to introduce myself.
How rude of me.

Hello everyone,

You are the people that make Arch even more perfect than it already is. (Not sure if its possible to be more than perfect).
Arch has the best community over all the other distros.

I'm a Comp. Sci. major from NC State University (U.S.).
Looking forward to the continued support and whatever help I can contribute myself.

-TyCon

perchy22 · 2011-03-29 22:37:12

I'm relatively new to Linux, however, I have jumped head first into it; I feel like I have been learning at an exponential rate since I jumped ship to it in fall of 2009. Haven't really looked back since.
I fell in love with the dark Openbox interface of Crunchbang pretty early on, but have since started to dislike its lack of being up-to-date. For a while, I had my sights on basing my system of off LFS, but have since realized that it is less than realistic with my lack of real programming skills and a general lack of time (thank you college). I also got tired of booting only up to trying to access filesystems followed by crashing. With Arch, I can get the customization that I want, without the un-needed headache. Eventually, I might try out Gentoo to try to squeeze out a little bit more performance, as well as more knowledge.
As for who I am, I am a CS major at CCSF and live in SF. I hope to eventually make the above programming statement be false and be able to contribute to the Arch community and Linux as a whole.

akalore · 2011-03-31 01:53:46

Nice thread

Hello, I've been using Arch since a couple of years on my netbook because it's clean, fast and quite easy. It fit a netbook like no other OS I ever seen.
I decided join the forum because of a problem with my new laptop, on wich I decided to install Arch today.

Thanks for the great job on the distro, the wiki, and everything around Arch and free softwares.

WaRPNiG · 2011-04-02 21:44:22

I guess I'll make one, I usually don't. Been using Arch on and off for about 2 years now, different WM's and all. I'd label myself as a newb to Arch because I'm still learning how to manipulate it to the way I want. Who knows, I think I finally got it, for my laptop at least. Meh, I'm ranting...

Hi.

~WaRPNiG

(Funny name right, look at yours.)

atm · 2011-04-03 14:13:19

Hello friends,

I am Anuj from Mumbai. Studying for BE in IT, currently in the second year. Ran my 1st Linux based system as a teen (Red Hat 8 or 9) but really got into Linux based systems since 2008 - 09.

Came here after running Arch on a VDI over a Fedora 14 host. Loved the freedom to customize a distro from scratch.
Will surely shift to Arch once it comes out with delta builds (upgrades similar to what Fedora offers currently: DRPMs)

Hobbies: Collecting OSes, installing them on VDIs, comparing them to find advantages and disadvantages, playing guitar, reading about serial killers and music theory.

alex952 · 2011-04-04 09:54:00

Well, hi everyone!

I'm alex952 and i'm from Spain. I've been using Arch for some time now and I really like it. All the philosophy behind the project and the way the OS do all the things.

I'm running XMonad right now and waiting to get Gnome 3 to see if it's better then XMonad (I suspect not...). There's not much else to say, just i hope to collaborate and see you soon!

Alex952

Appé · 2011-04-04 15:25:51

Hello, Glad that I found Arch!
First distro I installed that I do not need to spend a hour after installation removing junk that I do not need.
The quote "[Arch Linux] is what you make it." is so true!

Arch Linux

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