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Comfortably_Dumb

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Registered: 2011-06-14

Posts: 16

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I like computers, Arch linux, fluxbox, motocross, and I'm drunk.  Hence, my first post.  I will go back to lurk mode since I am content to read the wisdom of others.  You have all made my desktop sexy, my laptop run fast, minimal and smooth.  So the drunk me thanks you all!

Ashren

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-06-13

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Cheers!

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Moderator note: Merged with the official hello thread

I like computers, Arch linux, fluxbox, motocross, and I'm drunk.  Hence, my first post.  I will go back to lurk mode since I am content to read the wisdom of others.  You have all made my desktop sexy, my laptop run fast, minimal and smooth.  So the drunk me thanks you all!

Um, okay   To each his own.  Be safe.

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panda

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Registered: 2011-07-09

Posts: 3

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Hey all, I started new with Arch Linux, sofar I like it very much

PredaN00b

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Registered: 2011-07-08

Posts: 7

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Hello all! I started using Arch about a week ago, and so far I'm loving it!

I'll see you all around the forum

hfcorreia91

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From: Lisbon

Registered: 2011-07-09

Posts: 4

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Hi all! Successively installed Arch on my laptop 2 day ago, very happy with the arch approach, after trying Ubuntu and openSuse. The arch wiki is a really good, i had little problems with installation, good job with that!

See ya!

drone

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 2

Re: The Official Hello Everyone Thread

Hello,
I'm with Arch for about year and a half. Using various Linux distros for about six years, I finally managed to quit my distrohopping addiction thanks to Arch.

jelledp

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 1

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Hey,

I just setup an archlinux on ec2-amazon. For those interested, I found a working instance - ami-4d7d9e24.

I wanted to have a look at archlinux due to the different approach of starting services. It looks slick.

Greetings,
Jelle

SlayingDragons

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Registered: 2011-07-12

Posts: 42

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Hello, world!

So yeah, I finally decided 2 days ago that I was going to make a devoted switch to arch, (Completely formatted my drive,) as I really like just everything about it from using it in a VM. I think I'm in a bit over my head, as my only experience with linux has been ubuntu, dslinux and backtrack for about 4 months now, haha. The most I've had to do is manually install drivers, I've never even had to use iwconfig before. >_>

I'm learning a ton though, the wiki here is a godsend. The only thing I'm really having a problem with is Xorg. Seriously, the bane of my existance, I can't even figure out why it's not working right even after looking through the logs like 50 times.

I also use this username on a variety of forums; if you recognize the username from another forum, it's probably me.

Cheers, yo, I look forward to regularly lurking.

Edit: As a follow-up, I got X up and working quite nicely, and installed gnome 3. (I never realized how bloated gnome is.) The whole problem was that I was over-thinking things, the solution was incredibly simple.

Yesterday I was posting from ubuntu on a usb drive, now I'm posting from Arch.

I'm currently working on configuring my wireless, turns out that while having WPA2 is good for security, it can be a pain to configure. Especially since I'm running into driver issues... -.-'

Last edited by SlayingDragons (2011-07-13 17:53:35)

MarcusNyahoe

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Registered: 2011-07-13

Posts: 1

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Hi

I installed Arch with LXDE on my laptop after a couple of years using Ubuntu. My desktop got an Arch install after Ubuntu 11.04 (nothing against it but Unity crashed quite often and it felt like the opportune time to complete the switch). After trying Gnome 3 (crashed a bit too often, just like Unity) I eventually went with KDE.

I decided to use Arch because I didn't want a lot of stuff I didn't need installing, but primarily so that I could learn how Linux actually works under the hood. Arch pretty much forces you to research and understand more. Although there have been a couple of times I have wanted to throw the computer through the window, persistence and a little reading made everything fall into place with an incredible sense of achievement.  I'm loving the experience so far.

keen90

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From: Europe

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 106

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Hi

still on crux
but arch might convince

keen

RyanMcCoskrie

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From: North Canterbury, New Zealand

Registered: 2011-07-14

Posts: 5

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Gudday everyone.
I've been using Arch for a few days on a netbook after a few years (four or five maybe) of Fedora of Fedora on my desktop and I have been finding it both
challenging and liberating.

Challenging: I have had to a lot of quick learning to make using Arch practical. I have had to research how to package and manually configuring the
loading of the correct wireless driver, configure udev so that both network devices have the correct name, adjust grub by hand and many other tasks
before getting any practical use of my computer. This is all very practical for me in a way since I'm studying systems administration.

Liberating: Arch has not fought back or disagreed with me at any point. Nothing is obfuscated and so far it seems that although individual packages
may well be bleeding edge, I'm not a lab rat for the distro maintainers like I was in Fedora.

Arch has been  the biggest computing thrill I have had in a long time.

I'm not sure if I would want to use it for something that isn't going to be used by me alone however. That could get impractical.

SejmL

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Registered: 2011-07-15

Posts: 2

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Heyooooo

brucejustbruce

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 22

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Hello Everyone,

I've been using Debian for a long time. An old  version, hacked to pieces, held together
with twist ties and duct tape. 

So I hit distrowatch and started looking for a good distro that wasn't trying to be like
Windows in order to build its client base.

So I found Arch, which seems to alone in its class,  and here I am. Got the base system and
core packages installed (had a problem with AIF and did it manually from the latest iso)
and it boots up fine. Will be installing basic X next.

If I have problems installing and/or configuring X, would it be better to post on the Desktops
sub-forum or the Multimedia sub-forum? Or Installation, for that matter?

What attracted me most? The great docs, I think.  And being treated like I  have a functioning
mind.

I haven't been in the computer world for long, but I've done a lot of reading on the Web, and
it looks like Arch  is what Slackware used to be.  Am I close?

Cheers,

Bruce

kerdum

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Registered: 2011-07-16

Posts: 21

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Hi,

I'm a software developer who is looking to expand my knowledge of Linux. I felt that Ubuntu and Mint were great but have become so UI intense that its really not that far from just using Windows with less driver compatibility. I wanted to try and have control over everything. I must say I really am enjoying learning about the world of Arch and am very happy so far with the amount of control I have over my little Netbook.

Cheers,
Kerdum

galifrey

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Registered: 2011-07-19

Posts: 6

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Hello everyone!

I'm an ubuntu user (actually I don't have it installed in my laptop, but in a USB) who was searching for Linux knowledge! Since ubuntu was a thousand times better than windows, I was happy, but I wanted... something else. I googled searching for debian vs ubuntu, debian vs fedora, fedora vs Slackware, Slackware vs SuSE, etc. But when I read a post from someone who was asking what was the faster and most stable linux distro (he was using Slackware with fluxbox), some people answered something like "Whoa! Are you crazy?? Faster than that??" Some other talked about gentoo, and then, someone answered "Arch Linux". I googled for it and found that everyone said that it was extremely stable and fast, that it used a lot the commands and that was the best distro to really learn about Linux!! Nowadays, my computers hard disk is fully dedicated to Arch Linux!!!

Ar2D2

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Registered: 2011-03-12

Posts: 1

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Bleep Bloop

asmo

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Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 5

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Hi all,

New to text based linux, see how it goes.

jesseFrey

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From: Boulder CO

Registered: 2011-07-22

Posts: 24

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Hi,
I have been using Arch since last summer when my Ubuntu craped out (I messed with stuff too much). It has been great so far. I recently got a thikpad x220 so I will probably be asking lots of questions to get everything working closer to 100%.
one thing that I have really liked about arch is pacman. on ubuntu I never really liked the commandline interface to the package manager. now that is all I have and it is great.

archerdave

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Registered: 2011-07-22

Posts: 3

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Hello everyone,

I am archerdave (but you can call me dave) and I have recentily switched from Ubuntu to Arch and it is going great, I have learned alot of new things about Linux with Arch.

johan1391

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From: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Registered: 2010-08-03

Posts: 106

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Hi I don't believe I have introduced myself.

My name is John and this is the first time I have actually used linux as my everyday distrobution. I dabbled in live CD's a few years back but never really made the leap to install it on my machine. In April I broke my ankle so when summer rolled around I needed a project to work on so I decided to buily my Arch machine on my macbook pro 5,2 and am very please with my results. Arch was a HUGE learning curve but it is all worth it now that I have finished with nearly everything that I needed to. I almost gave up but after the hours of reading I couldn't give up so easily and now I am pleasantly surprised with how well it runs. It's great to be apart of this very knowledgable community.

akemrir

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Registered: 2011-07-23

Posts: 7

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hello everyone

d01100001n

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Registered: 2011-07-23

Posts: 1

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Hey everyone!

I've been using Ubuntu and Fedora, but I needed something better for my new setup. I'm glad I've made the switch to Arch, not to mention the community is great!

joe4ska

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From: California

Registered: 2011-07-22

Posts: 10

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Hi everyone,

I began using Linux in early  2010 because I read it was easy to install PHP & MySQL. (easy as just going to a package manager and 30 seconds later I was done.

I started With Ubuntu 9.10 and kept bouncing back and forth from LInux Mint and Ubuntu with each new version. I kept hearing about other distros and so I kept burning images and trying them out.

After finally installing ArchLinux correctly I'm hooked. I installed LXDE a few times and saw that it could idle on about 60mb of ram and 1% CPU use after booting! I needed a little more usability I've settled on Gnome 3 as of this writing. I'm using my Arch partition 90%+ of the time except when i boot into OS X for Netflix, World of Warcaft or Starcraft II.

I use Gimp and Bluefish editor a ton as I'm a web designer. Open Source software is amazing, chances are if you're looking for something unique someone has developed a program that can do it.

It's also amazing that ArchLinux can be anything we need it to be.

I'm even considering buying a System76 for my next computer and leaving Apple in the dust after 15 years of dedication.

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tenorshooz

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Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 3

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Hello!