The Official Hello Everyone Thread

xs · 2011-04-06 00:31:37

Hi all New Arch user here. been using it since this weekend and loving every minute of it!

Ataxia · 2011-04-06 21:39:47

Hi there

I figured i'd sign up as I'm pretty new to this and will probably need an awful lot of help .

I think Arch is a nice idea and i really appreciate the quality of the wiki; I believe that the support available for arch without even asking a question is unparalleled.

Expect many silly questions

Regards,

- Ataxia

Phoenix Archer · 2011-04-07 00:21:45

Hey, I've been using Linux for afew years. Started of with ubuntu 7.10 and kept with it till 9.10. Started to distro hop with the release of 10.04. Tried debian but found it to outdated and testing to break. Then moved to openSuse but found it to be a bit bloated. When I heard of Arch and have been using it ever since.
I love the rolling release, the speed and the customizability. I hated to bloat with ubuntu where I had to uninstall stuff first much like Windows OEMs
So far Arch has made me learn a lot about operating systems that I have never needed to with Windows and other distros and presented them in an easy manner.
Thanks to the amazing documentation found in the wikis I've not really needed to ask anything on the forums, but I figured I'd join now anyway.
Thanks and hope to have more fun with Arch

apronouva · 2011-04-07 08:01:44

Hello, greets to every archers around the world,

I'm relatively new to the linux world but very much like to experiment with it. Tried other .rpm, .deb, and .tar.gz distros, and right now I would like to try using Arch. I'm interested on learning linux to the core and picked Arch because of its rolling-release and minimalistic ways of packing things

Expect me to wander arround asking stuff when stuck with something

Thank you in advance,
apronouva

espinafre · 2011-04-09 04:06:45

Greetings from South America. Always wanted to test Arch (have been using FreeBSD and Debian Sid for a long time), heard great things about it. Bought new machine, the price was right, but the OS was wrong (that one from Redmond)... Promptly wiped disk, recovery partitions and all, then set out thinking about installing yet another Debian or FreeBSD. No use. Debian stable/testing is too out of date, sid is too out of date (do you believe they still carry Firefox 3.5?), and FreeBSD, sadly, doesn't have good laptop support; my new machine is an Asus Eee PC 1201T, so no network support (except with ugly hacks involving ndiswrapper). Considered Gentoo (used it on a stolen laptop I had four or five years ago), but emerge and all that python "performance" get on my nerves; Slackware doesn't have proper package management. Then there's this Arch I keep hearing about. Got netinst and a spare USB pendrive, read a little about pacman and here I am, SO VERY ???KING HAPPY!

Much to find out, much to learn, but I hope to contribute a lot to the community.

Thanks all for the great distro.

Nimbus · 2011-04-12 00:07:58

Oh how rude of me, I forgot to even introduce myself! Kupo!

I am Nimbus, I previously existed on the Ubuntu forums as TuxIsAwesome...

Initially like all users of any Computer, I started off Using Windows (Since 3.1, which compared to anything else, is still shit), I cannot remember when this occured, but at some point in my High-school years I was introduced to Ubuntu, through version 4.06 or something like that. Naturally I thought nothing of it and continued to use Windows XP.

After awhile though my mind began to contemplate what was happening to Windows, it finally clicked that I should not need to spend heaven knows how much on an OS and software. I should have access to the Source Code of what I am using, even if I'll never use them. Thanks to an Open Source Conference I went to 2 years ago, this all finally snapped, and led to me switching to Linux. Funnily enough, a few weeks later after that I finally through my first job at a retail store, managed to save enough up for a Macbook (Something I had wanted since High-school), nonetheles, Linux went on it immediately. My first distro was Ubuntu 9.04.

I used Ubuntu up untill about 4 months ago, thats when all this Unity Crap and all that stupid bloat and such got me thinking....."There must be a distro that doesn't force all this crap down your throat, but is still usable and insanely customizable)...I tried to switch to Linux Mint Debian Edition, but it didn't feel like the one that I was looking for. Eventually I read about Arch Linux, but it intimidated me a bit, I panicked at the thought of "OMG NO GTK/QT/ETC GUI INSTALLER!", so I skipped by it (huge mistake on my part).

Then about a month or two ago after distrohopping for the previous 2-3 weeks, I installed Arch Linux after finally mustering the guts to do so. Never in my life have I ever been so impressed with a Linux Distribution.

I can customize everything! I'm not limited to that POS Plymouth bootsplash anymore, I'm not forced to install endless numbers of additional applications just to get another Desktop Environment. Arch has everything I wanted and more, and the Documentation...holy crap folks....it's so detailed and well formatted, and the sheer amount of it, it's like it covers everything!

I have never been so happy with a Linux Distribution before as I have been with Arch. I'll be keeping a perpetual backup of my install for as long as I have devices to do so with, because to be honest, I never want to switch my Main Distro again. Currently, I'm using anything from Openbox (Love it!), to XFCE4, heck I even tried out KDE4 again (Haven't used it since Ubuntu 9.10), it's smooth as butter, and shiny too!

I have also pusuaded my family to switch over to Linux as well, my father uses Linux Mint Debian Edition (Simple to setup, and work with for him), and my Brother uses Ubuntu 10.04 on my old Compaq which now belongs to him (Still trying to see if I can at least get him to switch to LMDE or something like that). I also use Sabayon (EASY MODE GENTOO), and LMDE as backup distros.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, my Avatar is a recolored Gadgeteer Moogle from FFTA2

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asadsnowman · 2011-04-12 00:24:19

Hello everybody!

Its my first week with Arch, although I've been using various distrobutions (mainly Ubuntu) for the past 2 years or so. I'm 21 years old getting my degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering in Michigan. I initially decided to try Arch simply because of the level of control you have over everything, and because its more in depth than say, Ubuntu, I wanted a good learning experience.

I just got Arch installed over the weekend, and spent the majority of last night installing a gui, gnome 3 to be exact. I've had a few bugs so far, but looking through the wiki and the forums has ironed out most of them. It probably doesn't help that I'm installing packages from the testing repositories, but I think I'm up for a challenge. I have to say, so far I'm loving Arch, although the new gnome is taking some getting used to. I don't want to make any judgments too soon though, having only been using it for about a day.

Good luck to everyone else out there just starting out on Arch, I'll be around on the forums!

Noah0504 · 2011-04-12 01:19:11

Hello, everyone!

I've been an Ubuntu user for quite sometime, but their recent proposed changes to the UI (mostly Unity) have cause me to jump ship. I started running Debian and quite like it, however, after doing more research, Arch really appealed to me. I've tried to install the system on my laptop once now, but I ran into some problems getting xorg up and running. Right now I'm on an Ubuntu system to practice the installation in a virtual machine until I'm ready to get it rolling on my machine.

Anywho, I'm sure I'll be coming around here to search or ask for help.

Shimizoki · 2011-04-12 15:59:00

Uhh... Hi

kylecarey · 2011-04-12 17:58:14

Hi...

snigga · 2011-04-13 09:27:22

Hi all!
This is the second day i've been enjoying Arch and it feels great! For ~10 years I've been working under Slackware and then Zenwalk with its nice package manager, and after I've got a new PC with Core2 Zenwalk was no longer available, so i moved looking for a new distro. And I've found Arch, it is really awesome=) The best distro I've ever dreamed of.
Thank you guys, if you are reading this) I even wanted to make a donation, but seems that they don't accept them at the moment.

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Zyhael · 2011-04-14 03:04:25

Hey all!
This be closing in on a month on using Arch and I say I enjoy every single bit of it been a windows user for a long time and used ubuntu for quite some time but upon finding Arch I just simply fell captivated and well, I'm looking forward to learning more and more.. KISS!

lunamystry · 2011-04-15 04:44:43

Hello I'm making my migration from Ubuntu. I love Ubuntu, I like Unity, I just found I am starting to customise my PC to a point where the I wanna know what broke when they break and why and how to fix with minimal googling, preferably with no googling.

I started on Ubuntu in 2007 and first installed Arch last year on my netbook and got xmonad as a DE, now I am looking to use KDE with some sort of continuous tiling WM maybe with gloss on (kwin with xmonad?).
I know some C++, clojure, PHP, python and really basic bash. I guess I know HTML and CSS. I use vim but am learning emacs for clojure. I use vimperator and terminator. I use latex for large document processing and office suit for quick docs.

Hello Arch Linux community.

slalomsk8er · 2011-04-15 07:04:48

Hi,

and thanks for this nice distro that runns rater smooth on this underpowered netbook.

Regards
Dominik

scampisan · 2011-04-15 09:19:31

I guess I should introduce myself, should I ? ^^

So, hello, I'm scampisan.
I'm 19, turning 20 in a few month.
I use Linux since 2002 or 2003.
I started with a Mandrake I got for free at school. Then I used Linux and Windows for a few years.
I've tested many distros: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Gentoo, Sabayon, ... but I ultimately wanted to make my own. Next thing I know, I was reading the Linux From Scratch book and compiling my own distro.
While that was a great experience and I learned a lot of things on Linux, it was no good for my everyday needs. So, I continued my pilgrimage and found Arch.
I was pleased with what I found and even tried to completely delete Windows for a few times. (Ultimately coming back to it because of the games >_> )
However, I've now been using Linux for 4 month straight. (I don't play games on PC anymore because... well... DRM and not that many games only for PC anymore.)
I speak French, English and a bit of Dutch, German and Japanese.
For programming languages, by order of experience: Free Pascal, Python and C++

I'm currently trying to learn Bash and use Vim or Emacs (I still need to decide which one is my favorite...)
And... voila. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I tend to tweak my system whenever I feel bored or get the feeling it's getting messy.

Thank you for welcoming me

jpsimard · 2011-04-15 13:09:36

Hello to all!

I've been using Arch for a few months now, and I have had a lot of fun. Been using Linux in the form of many distros, and hopped over here from Ubuntu. I don't think I'll be switching distros soon! I still use windows, but mostly for gaming, and would avoid it if possible...

eyhaszewin · 2011-04-15 13:34:03

Hello people,

Have just started using Arch. Before that was using Ubuntu for two years but wished to further understanding on Linux in general and was up for a challenge. Not very good at talking about self, so I shall leave the intro at hello, but am looking forward to getting involved and learning as much as possible.

DroidzforLife · 2011-04-16 06:54:48

Ok so I am very very new to the Linux community except for my "Android" experience and some minor Virtual Box Ubuntu installs. Anyway Im glad to see tons of support available for when I need it and I am sure I am going to be using it very soon. I just barely installed "chakra" and "Windows 7" along side each other and am playing around right now. I have already ran into a little issue though?... Can't install any updates because something with the ntfs-3g ? Anyway I know this is not the thread for that so I'll see you later guys...

sergiuniculescu · 2011-04-17 06:47:58

Hello everyone,

I use Arch Linux for a month and I want to say that I'm extremely sorry that I did not try much earlier this distro. It's the best!

Mr_ED-horsey · 2011-04-17 17:28:44

Hello, I'm new to Arch Linux but not new to Linux. I've been mostly using Slack based distros like Slackware KDE on my desktop & Salix XFCE on my laptop for the last few years, but after being given a laptop to fix by a friend that was running Arch gnome I have to say I was very impressed by it's speed, and I missed the gnome desktop which I haven't used in years so I installed it on my laptop. I like it. I think I'm going to keep this on my laptop for a long time. Got nothing against Salix, it's an incredible distro. I'm honestly thinking on getting rid of Slackware (have nothing against Slackware either!) and installing Salix KDE on my desktop. I just like Salix a little more than Slackware.. A bit easier to use.

monikgtr · 2011-04-17 20:04:11

Hello I'm Monica and I'm totally embracing Arch! I've been using ubuntu for about three years and a half, but I decided it was time for a challenge, and for an improvement so, here I am, making the transition, and so far, it's been great. One of the things that kept me back was the fear for different commands, but after the arch install, that hasn't troubled me at all xD

BTW, I'd say a huge plus is the Arch wiki. In ubuntu I pretty much had to rely on the forums whenever I had a problem, but in Arch, the wiki has proven to be my most useful tool. I'm looking forward to contribute in it too

Method_X · 2011-04-18 03:21:51

Hello everyone.
I use Arch Linux for some days. Before it I used Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuse. I can say that Arch Linux is a great OS, that perfectly fits my Thinkpad. For the last 4 days I managed to understand this distrib, configured everything i need for work. As in previous post, I found a lot of things in Arch wiki when I used other distributives.

Burbruee · 2011-04-18 20:28:58

Hello.
Well I've been around linux for about nine years now. I think it all started with Red Hat 7.1 (came free with a magazine) and then I went on to try Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware. I also bought something called "Best Linux 2000" because it had a thick (500+ pages?) manual. Well, I finally decided to go with Slackware, and to this date it's the distro that I love the most because I feel like I have very good control over the system. I've been running it on a home server for 9 years, although the hardware has changed a bit over the years. These days it can be a bit tiresome to install new packages since you're "used to" simple things like apt-get, yum or pacman to automatically fix and download all the dependencies for you, on slackware all work is done manually. So I'm evaluating arch right now, maybe I'll put it on my server one day.

So I've been installing and configuring a bunch of linux servers over the years. For myself, family, friends, and even schools.. But they usually require something more user-friendly than Slackware. (ubuntu)
..which is what lead me to this place. I was going to try out ubuntu for the first time in years on my regular desktop computer. I noticed the 11.04 beta on their website but as I "burned" it to my usb-stick it failed to boot on my hardware for whatever reason. It tried to boot for about 10 to 15 minutes before it finally fell back into busybox.

I tried the older 10.10 version and even 10.04 but they all failed to boot on my system. I have no idea why and was in no mood of finding out the reason.. so I listened to a friend who is running arch and decided to try it for myself.
After resizing the free space on one of my partitions I booted up the installation which felt similar to slackware. It didn't take long before the core system was installed. At the first bootup I was surprised by how fast it booted.

I was always sceptical of running linux in a graphical environment however. Mainly because I myself do a lot of video capturing and editing and I haven't seen any good alternatives to the tools I use, and compatibility with these types of devices are usually poor.
So now here I am on Arch, on a dualboot with windows 7. I haven't configured it all yet, ran into some problems with my video card driver (nvidia doesn't work and nouveau made gnome3 go into fallback mode. Let's see if I can solve that so I can test out gnome-shell.

laisa · 2011-04-19 17:05:11

Hello everyone. My name is laisa, and I'm from Uruguay. I've benn using ubuntu for about two years now, and now i've decided to change to Arch + Xfce. So far, everything's been working pretty well (my computer is much faster)... but there are still a couple of isues I need to fix... so I'll be asking around.
laisa

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Mike V · 2011-04-20 00:25:21

Hi,
My name is Miguel Angel (aka Mike), my first experience was with Knoppix in 2005 but sadly it didnt feel right at the time, I give myself another chance with Ubuntu 7.10 (I skipped Karmic like many) and ditched Windows since then, I decided to try something more challenging with the new year so I started 2011 dual booting Ubuntu/Arch so far not much problems except wifi (wl driver) right now using GNOME3 from testing.

Regards

Arch Linux

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