The Official Hello Everyone Thread

monkeymonk · 2011-06-14 12:16:07

I have just moved to Arch for a week from Ubuntu.My arch got kernel panic when I ejected an Mobile Hard Disk formated in NTFS.

I Like ArchLinux~

shadogamon · 2011-06-14 23:17:34

Hello! my first install in two days (first thing after finals >.<) I had a near successful arch-xfce install back in april, but I made the mistake of trying to set up wifi before wicd. Since then I've had no time. but since school's almost out, its #1 on my to do list.

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vandakiara · 2011-06-16 18:42:22

Hi people ^^

I'm a fairly new Linux user in general (started about a year ago with Ubuntu) and I've only switched to Arch Linux about a week ago but I wouldn't trade it for anything now x)

So now I'm running Arch and XFCE on my small yet lovely ASUS EeePC 1005HA ^^

Nice to meet you :3

mtcupps · 2011-06-17 16:59:44

Hey everyone.

Been a lurker for a year or two and after posting in another topic, figured it was due time to say hi. I started with Linux six-ish years ago with one of the last Mandrake releases before they became Mandriva. Then I used Ubuntu, Slackware, and finally landed on Arch about a year ago and haven't looked back.

Within Arch I've tinkered with GNOME3 (GNOME was my DE of choice pre-Arch), but now I mainly run Openbox without a DE on my Acer Aspire 7745G. Viva la Arch!

infra-red · 2011-06-18 06:49:28

Hi! I've been looking for Linux development platform some time. It seems like I've found it.

chronozphere · 2011-06-18 20:19:05

Hi everybody,

I'm a 21 year old CS student from the netherlands. I just bought my first homeserver. After a year of experience with Ubuntu on my desktop, I wanted to have a nice minimal linux system that's running all the time. One of the main reasons I chose archlinux was that it was a minimal "learn as you go" OS. Also, I'm quite happy with the quality of the wiki pages. Now I'm ready to configure my system so I will probably need your help every now and then.

[Bacardi] · 2011-06-20 13:03:10

Hello everyone , I am [Bacardi] from Argentina.

ophiel · 2011-06-20 15:42:58

Greetings.

i'm Ophiel, 23 years old student from Poland.

Linux user for about 6 years or so, Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian -> Arch with some short adventures with gentoo, backtrack, slackware, red hat (long time ago) and pld.

I was looking for a good distro for my netbook, found Arch and fall in love

nevertheless... hello all.

Katsunami · 2011-06-21 09:01:59

Hello.

Some time ago I started to experiment with Linux again, after trying it off and on for the last 10 years or so. (I started with Red Hat 6.3.) I never stuck with it, because I needed some hardware or software under Windows, which could not be replaced.

Times seem to have changed, and except for two applications, it seems that Linux now has anything I need. (The two applications are Fritz 12 chess program, and PhotoScore Ultimate music recognizer, for which Linux has no decent alternatives; but they may run virtualized on my old Windows XP version if it really needs be.)

To be honest, I have always had a great respect for Unix and Unix-likes, and for Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. They have done great things for the world of computing (and in the case of Thompson, for the world of chess also). I have always wanted to run a Unix or Unix-like operating system, now more than ever. Not because I have problems with Windows (I never have, and think I might call myself an expert on Windows, after 15 years of use and programming for it), but also, after 15 years, I get tired of it and want something new.

Also, I have been moving more and more into the open source world, with the use of Firefox, Thunderbird, Eclipse, Apache/MySQL/PHP and Gimp on Windows, while recently adding the MikTex LaTeX distribution to that. (How I came to loath WYSIWYG word processors! Should have switched to LaTeX years ago!).

As I am using open source stuff for about half my needs already, I have decided to try Linux again. That is why I tried some Linux distributions, and FreeBSD also. I like FreeBSD better than most Linux distributions because it has better documentation and seems to be more of a "complete" system. Until I found Arch; it has a great Wiki, that can rival the FreeBSD documentation. Installing it was really no problem, and it actually feels like sort of a "Linux-ified BSD", if there is such a thing. At the moment, I like it. The text-based configuration is great, and together with the Wiki, I now actually UNDERSTAND how it works. (I have been able to *use* Linux and Unix for a long time, graphically and on the command line, but I never understood how to *configure* it.)

After some testing I have determined that KDE 4.x feels too much like Windows for me, and I find the interface too cluttered with options; I actually like Gnome 3 very very much after installing a theme that trims down the whitespace a bit. It is a very clean desktop, ideal for people with bad eyesight like myself.

All my hardware seems to work, except my DGT chessboard, for which the options are very limited, and the Harmony Remote Control, for which I have not yet tried the programs. I am going to see if I can stick with Arch and, maybe in time, switch completely. It should be easier since I stopped playing games except for the old RPG's (Baldur's Gate and such), and they seem to run great under Wine.

We'll see what comes of it, but I don't think it will be easy, as I know Windows inside out, can fix about any problem, and are able to find any program I might need; and my current installation is three years old. It may take as long for an Arch installation to get up to the point where I can do everything with it that I can do with Windows now. I don't know...

For people who like to know how long I have been experimenting with Arch... it was just on kernel 2.6.37 when I started, and it just moved to 2.6.39. Most of the time on 2.6.37 and 38, I have spend in VirtualBox. I can do the install up to the Gnome desktop almost blind now, and very fast too, thanks to reading the great Wiki about 15 times or so

Oh, by the way... making me boot a virtual machine and to enable me to enter a huge hash string into the input field is no fun way of registering I am not at home on my own system now, so I am not running Linux...

CarmineM · 2011-06-21 15:32:39

Hi everyone,

I'm from Italy and this is my first installation of Arch (coming from gentoo which i still use).

Cheers

Crypz · 2011-06-21 19:41:23

hello. my 3rd time or so installing arch, this time actually trying to get everything compatible and working

skmarch · 2011-06-22 22:01:56

Hello Fellow "Archers"
This is my first post in this forum. I am a new Arch user. I have been a linux user (on and off) for more than 10 years. Used Red Hat Linux 2.x first (was it 2000 or 2001?), then mandrake for some time. Then, I somehow fell into using windows (XP) for a long time (work). Then I rediscovered my linux love with Ubuntu. I have used ubuntu for about 2-3 years now. I am not trying to start a flame war. But I must confess: one fine day it dawned upon me that ubuntu has become more windows than linux. In fact, ubuntu is the windows of the linux world! I really did not like the dumbing down of the user. I also realized that I hardly, if ever, use command line. In fact I forgot a lot of my command line. I also realized, deep inside me is that young geek who dabbled with RedHat 2.0 in command line. I did not want to move away from command line. I saw Arch Linux review on the Linux Action Show (Chris Fisher & Bryan Lunduke) and realized that Arch may just be the one for me. Within a few days, I prepared the move and installed Arch. I am in love. I am totally infatuated. Nothing works unless I tell it to. Nothing stops working unless I do something to stop it from working. Nobody is doing things behind my back. I control my system. It feels awesome. Truly amazing. I also quickly start remembering most of the commands I learned long ago. I am feeling younger.

Thank you, Arch!

V

astronaut · 2011-06-23 00:17:20

Hello Everyone

It looks like as it's done! A new Arch-Linux user have been born couple of weeks ago. After celebrating my fourth year of using one of the most mainstream Linux-Distros, I decided to try something new. I don't really know why exactly, but I feel so quiet well with Arch I never felt before with any other OS. Looks like, there're some genius coder doing a great job xD

Thanks indeed! D.Astronaut

ronan · 2011-06-23 00:41:28

Salut!

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has contributed to Arch Linux. Bonus points to the people who work on the wiki -- those pages have been a fantastic source of information for me. I'm looking forward to my continued use of Arch and I hope to find a way to help with this distribution.

donderom · 2011-06-23 07:55:01

Hey!

Arch is what I was looking for... My heart beats in unison with The Arch Way philosophy...

Thanks for contributing!

oded · 2011-06-24 14:17:34

I just want to share my experience with others who are in the same position as I was.

I've been using Ubuntu for the past 2 years after someone at my workplace mentioned it to me, I've had no prior experience with Linux before that.
After installing it I quickly got the hang of it - including testing multiple DEs, sorting out various bugs with my hardware (My main computer has been a laptop for the past few years),
I learned to appreciate the simplicity and the 'spirit' of linux, opensource and freedom of choice.

Fast forward to about a month ago, I got a new machine (Thinkpad x220) and Ubuntu rolled out 11.04. It was bad.
The UI changes coupled with my hardware acting all kinds of weird with it (external monitor and xrandr being the main pain - I use a docking station) were too much to deal with and I found myself forced moving to Windows 7 due to lack of time and will.
Windows 7 is ok. It works and it's pretty but then I was re-introduced to the tedious tasks of constant driver maintenance, modular software updating security patching and others...

I'm far from a Linux expert, the only thing going for me is my googling skills and being generally open minded and so last night I had some free time so I decided to throw Archlinux on my laptop with the intent of trying to make it through (I've run it a few times in VBox, never committed to actually using it as my main OS).
An hour and a half later, with the wiki open by my side, I had a fully working system, with everything functioning perfectly, running Gnome 3 (which I really like) tweaked to my personal taste.
I intend on keeping this relatively vanilla setup running and other than boredom induced situations am not going to go into the guts of Archlinux.

The point I want to make is - for people who are looking for an alternative to Ubuntu\Windows\Others and have been reluctant to try Archlinux because of its reputation of being "hardcore", give it a shot - it really is simple and using it does not mean you have to learn a ton of new things. You could if you want, but it ain't a must.

SanskritFritz · 2011-06-24 14:43:02

Welcome to Archlinux.

pckt · 2011-06-24 21:53:11

Hi Everyone,

Long term gentoo user here, just defected. Had arch running on my laptop now for about 6 days probably going to stick it on my desktop and HTPC this weekend unless the weather is especially nice. So far I have found arch a very pleasant experience even installing dm-crypt which in the past on gentoo I found a bit of a nightmare even with the --luks in genkernel (which NEVER worked for me :genkernel:). Any tips, threads or advice or users bailing out of gentoo would be much appreciated.

ewaller · 2011-06-24 23:27:29

pckt wrote:

Hi Everyone,
Long term gentoo user here, just defected. Had arch running on my laptop now for about 6 days probably going to stick it on my desktop and HTPC this weekend unless the weather is especially nice. So far I have found arch a very pleasant experience even installing dm-crypt which in the past on gentoo I found a bit of a nightmare even with the --luks in genkernel (which NEVER worked for me :genkernel:). Any tips, threads or advice or users bailing out of gentoo would be much appreciated.

Welcome to Arch (From a recovering Gentoo'er). I do like Gentoo (the penultimate distribution), and you can never quite escape it's lure. As to advice, when you need things from AUR, do it by hand; makepkg will displace your need to emerge

kamarkiewicz · 2011-06-25 14:18:11

Hey everyone! I'm new here, but I've used ArchLinux for a year. I'm proud to be part of the Arch community.

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Cpt.Marvel · 2011-06-25 15:28:05

Huhu @ all,

I'm new to arch and I'm really fascinated of arch's speed and simplyness! So lovely!

Have a great weekend!

Greetz
Cpt.Marvel

DreVinci · 2011-06-26 00:42:48

Hey..I've been reading a couple of the posts above
and I've read what I felt were infomercial-type
reviews of Arch, people expressing their love and
whatnot for the system sooo, hopefully it lives up to
it's expectations. I've yet to install it though.
Umm..I've been on Ubuntu for a year or so but I
need to get to the more techier side I suppose.
So ya, later.

pizet · 2011-06-26 13:28:09

Hello evrybody.

I've started out with Ubuntu about 4 months ago and today I'm writing this post from a newly installed Arch GNU/Linux.

Why did I decide to do so? I would say the main argument was the Arch Way. I think I'am utterly identified with the philosophy.

I thank you.

ym.xiao · 2011-06-26 15:01:40

hi there,
i'v been using arch for about two weeks, before arch i was used to gentoo until some day i was tired of making everything everytime, so i choose arch.
p.s. sorry for my poor english

vamsee · 2011-06-26 19:31:57

Hi everyone,

I am vamsee joining the Arch family. Though It was itching to try Arch Linux for an year I restrained it for couple of reasons. Finally I installed it and I found my soul linux . Among all things I like the help of Arch linux a lot especially for installing packages.

Arch Linux

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