The Official Hello Everyone Thread

NotFromBrooklyn · 2011-07-25 13:43:02

Hello everyone, my name is Billy (alias: NotFromBrooklyn). I'm a spanish user who likes speaking english. And before Arch I used Fedora for a year, maybe a bit more.

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taranasus · 2011-07-26 05:16:56

Hello! Just made an account on the forum for help and tips... and basically to make an ars of myself for asking stupid questions...

In any case Hy!

You may call me taranasus. I'm a Romanian learning in the UK and I've just stated using Arch because I should really learn to use something a bit more interesting than Windows or MacOS.

hyperNine · 2011-07-26 15:24:26

Hello all! I made my account about 3 days ago i think, just popped in to check out some info and thought write up a "hello all" post while i'm super loaded on caffeine. i usually just keep to myself, surf around, and read post, never really make alot of them.. and i absolutely hate asking for help.. i feel like a failure if i do. so sure as sh** not gonna see any threads titled. "how do i change my wallpaper??" but i'm definitely hooked on arch and linux in-general. completely fascinated.. all happened by accident really.. stumbled upon it somehow.. put arch on my netbook, then changed every computer from win to linux. so i've been using for .... about 3 months i think... i'm currently learning about shell scripts. looks like a good place to start. its teaching me the scripts + explaning a bit more on the console and basic commands in linux in general, so 2 in 1 . anyway, off to work..

good day everyone.

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throdon · 2011-07-28 04:23:41

Ok I gotta admit I cheated a little. I recently found some openbox distros (archbang and ctkarch) and really liked how they felt. I have tried lots of times to install arch from the beginers guide but finally used godsdane's "archlinux-2011.06-1-archboot". I was looking for something more currrent that the arch 2010-05 that is on the fownload page. Ran that ISO and really dont know if I did things the 'arch' way or my own way. I had some help and hinderence with the arch wiki and
will X TrEmE's "how to setup arch linux with openbox". I did not accomplish the openbox but I have a shiny new KDE 4.7 on my netbook and am pushing forward to openbox for the very tight look that can be achived.
I am a distro hopper but my home distro is Sabayon with usually a poormans tripleboot(ubuntu/wubi with windows 7). The only thing I have on my netbook now is arch. Damn this distro is nice.

karol · 2011-07-28 04:28:34

throdon wrote:

Ok I gotta admit I cheated a little. I recently found some openbox distros (archbang and ctkarch) and really liked how they felt. I have tried lots of times to install arch from the beginers guide but finally used godsdane's "archlinux-2011.06-1-archboot". I was looking for something more currrent that the arch 2010-05 that is on the fownload page.

What's wrong with 2010-05 iso? Why wasn't it working for you?

inkrypted · 2011-07-28 05:26:43

I migrated from Kubuntu because I no longer agreed with Canonical's vision. After looking at many different distros I decided to try Arch and I must say so far I am impressed. I am sure that there will be a few bumbs but nothing major. Just wanted to say hello to the community.

Inxsible · 2011-07-28 05:33:09

merged inkrypted's thread....

Welcome to the forums inkrypted

inkrypted · 2011-07-28 05:38:48

Many thanks. Also thank you for moving my thread to the appropriate place. I hate making mistakes like that (duh!)

throdon · 2011-07-28 06:06:47

karol wrote:

throdon wrote:
Ok I gotta admit I cheated a little. I recently found some openbox distros (archbang and ctkarch) and really liked how they felt. I have tried lots of times to install arch from the beginers guide but finally used godsdane's "archlinux-2011.06-1-archboot". I was looking for something more currrent that the arch 2010-05 that is on the fownload page.
What's wrong with 2010-05 iso? Why wasn't it working for you?

I don't know if anything is wrong with the 2010-05, as I have never tried it, but as a distrohopper 2010 is so last year. we are already at the end of july so something that is 14 months old is suspect and I must find something newer or I would not of tried to install arch in the first place. I don't nessisaraly care how old the kernel or specific programs are but if I suspect 14 months of dependency problems i am gonna think about trying some thing else before I install.

zapzap · 2011-07-28 07:35:41

hello arch linux people!

Modeler · 2011-07-28 09:21:20

Hi all,

I'm really interested (if not fascinated at present) by Arch as it's broadening my understanding of how some of the more prolific distros are built. However, getting a working system is tough going I've found; particularly as I prefer to use LXDE.

Working with Unix and Linux for over 10 years, I should know a lot more about what goes on under the bonnet. I'm a little dismayed by how little I know about, but this is the first step to putting that right.

Cheers.

Deemoney14 · 2011-07-28 22:18:31

Hello Arch community and beyond!

I'm probably one of many defectors from the latest iteration of Ubuntu, in large part because a) Unity and the 2.6.38 kernel hated my new computer and would lock up repeatedly, even after I upgraded the kernel on my own (using .debs, not compiling it myself), b) it did not seem like the requisite updates were coming anytime soon, since a lot of what I read around Ubuntu had "oneiric" tagged to it, which frustrated me as a "natty" user, and c) the more I read about Arch, the more fascinated I was at the prospect of building my system from the ground up. I installed a virtual copy of Arch on my Ubuntu section (and probably broke/damaged it in the process), and it was so much fun learning the ins and outs I decided to do it for real on Tuesday.

To be honest, I was going to go with Debian for the sake of conservatism/stability, but I figured it wouldn't be able to handle my new hardware either (now that I understand the issue was as much with Unity as with my hardware, I don't think that's entirely true). I decided that as long as I have another computer with me, I'm willing to put in the legwork to get my OS set up the way I want it set up. It's been an interesting journey, and it really reminds you how much you don't necessarily think about your OS (e.g. - yesterday I didn't realize that once I had cups downloaded, I had to start it; after that my printer installed EZ). Still don't regret the decision yet

Been working on Linux as something between a regular user and an admin for 3-4 years now, and in the last few months I started really getting fancy with my command-line bash skills to do things I'd previously have to write a needless Perl, Python or Fortran 90 program to do (don't ask about the Fortran). Making the jump to Arch was still huge for me, and I've all but checked off the worst of the technical issues and it's just little things now. It's been fun, and here's to many productive (and unproductive) hours of it in the future.

ardneriv · 2011-07-29 12:51:38

Hi folks,

I just installed archlinux on a Dell D620 laptop this week. I have been experimenting with various linux distros for a while - used Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, Slackware - and finally decided to try archlinux after reading about it on distrowatch and also on the archwiki

The install process for archlinux was the best I have ever used - reason - I got to learn a whole lot about how things work under the hood especially the config files etc. Also, even though I love apt-get in debian based distros I think pacman is very easy to use as well.

I managed to install gnome3 and am really loving the new look for gnome.

I am reading through the FAQ and other articles on archwiki to get up to speed with archlinux.

Am very happy to see such a large community support for archlinux and would like to contribute as much as I can per my current level of expertise (shall I say newbie-ness)

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gmesalazar · 2011-07-29 21:38:29

Hello from Brazil o/

bewer · 2011-07-30 22:49:22

Hello from sweden o/

I started experimenting with GNU/Linux many years ago, mostly because everyone else used windows and i had, like many other teenage kids, an immense need to be different. I installed Slackware on a bunch of old computers my uncle gave me but i didn't really got the hang of it, i actually did manage to set up a working system but not a graphical environment. This was in the time before high speed broadband connections so help wasn't always a google search away. A few years later a friend introduced me to Ubuntu and i started using GNU/Linux for real. As i learned more and more about Linux and free software, Ubuntu felt more and more constrained so i moved on to Debian, which i've been using for several years now. But lately i've had the same feeling about Debian as i had about Ubuntu, it was time to move on to another dist to get more room to grow as a GNU/Linux user.

That's why i installed Arch on a memory stick and it was love at first boot so i figured i might as well make it official and join the forum!

gmesalazar · 2011-07-31 00:07:45

bewer wrote:

Hello from sweden o/
I started experimenting with GNU/Linux many years ago, mostly because everyone else used windows and i had, like many other teenage kids, an immense need to be different. I installed Slackware on a bunch of old computers my uncle gave me but i didn't really got the hang of it, i actually did manage to set up a working system but not a graphical environment. This was in the time before high speed broadband connections so help wasn't always a google search away. A few years later a friend introduced me to Ubuntu and i started using GNU/Linux for real. As i learned more and more about Linux and free software, Ubuntu felt more and more constrained so i moved on to Debian, which i've been using for several years now. But lately i've had the same feeling about Debian as i had about Ubuntu, it was time to move on to another dist to get more room to grow as a GNU/Linux user.
That's why i installed Arch on a memory stick and it was love at first boot so i figured i might as well make it official and join the forum!

Hey bewer!
I also used Ubuntu, when I started with Linux (around 2006). After I moved to Debian and now I'm using Arch (in dual boot with Debian).
Actually I thought about installing a BSD (maybe FreeBSD), but I don't regret having installed Arch! Perhaps the fact of Arch include some concepts of the BSD world has attracted me.

"it was love at first boot"
do not show this to Debian

Jatoskep · 2011-07-31 01:46:13

Hey everybody, not quite completely new to Arch, used it for various things about 2 years ago and haven't really touched linux since. I'm a Computer Science student right now and just switched over from Windows 7 to Arch as my main operating system on my laptop. Definitely favorite distro I've ever used, so hopefully I'll be sticking around here for a while and enjoying it.

ShionjiYuuko · 2011-07-31 05:10:33

Hello from Indonesia!

I started using Linux since end 2009. Upon migrating to Linux, I was so determined that I didn't make dual-boot configuration (and have no experience in dual-booting so far). My first Linux was Ubuntu (or Knoppix live CD and a failed Mandriva installation if either of them counts). Due to an incident when trying to install Arch, I return to Windows 7, but again I installed Arch for the second time and succeed.
The most appealing feature from Arch is the ability to build a system from ground up, and tailor it to our needs. Since I learned some bash command and tried mplayer, I've been fascinated with shell and wished for a CLI-based desktop. I found the answer in Arch (although we can build such desktop in Debian, it was less obvious for me). Now I have an Arch with Awesome WM, mpd, mplayer2 and some networking servers like httpd and radius for experiments.
I aim to be a Linux software/kernel developer, and it's still a long way to go.
Please give me your guidance. Thanks....

TheLugal · 2011-07-31 16:18:12

Hello, all and everyone!

I've spent lots of time reading the forums, and finally, I registered!
I have used Arch before but only on a secondary computer (read: The one that only visitors use).
Now I have installed it on my main computer and after some time I have a quite good all-around-computer.
I am not an eyecandy-type of person, so I keep my system simple, clean and light weight.

I understand that it's quite a few distro-hoppers here? I am one of those too, but I've had Ubuntu as my "main-system" for... Well, since I started using linux.

Well, I don't know what more to say, so I guess I'll hang around, and get to know you, slow and steadily.

gmesalazar · 2011-07-31 21:37:17

ShionjiYuuko wrote:

Hello from Indonesia!
I aim to be a Linux software/kernel developer, and it's still a long way to go.
Please give me your guidance. Thanks....

Hi ShionjiYuuko,
Do you program in C? You can start writing patches to the Linux Kernel.
Watch the video below (a talk by Greg Kroah, Linux Kernel maintainer for the staging subsystem).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4

Bye!

Archaiic · 2011-08-01 00:42:46

Hi, migrating from *bsd for easier haskell and clojure integration. Everything has been a breeze so far, gnome 3 and kde both installed seamlessly, ahh now time for xmonad.

berserk · 2011-08-01 04:28:58

Hello everyone. I'm from ubuntu. I installed arch weeks ago. I'm from Beijing China, a phd student in computational mathematics. My real name is Ye Shiwei, www.yeshiwei.com is my personal site.

captainron · 2011-08-01 19:27:52

Hello everyone. I'm another converted Ubuntu user, Unity make me puke in my mouth and I was in general getting annoyed with the Canonical approach. I didn't feel like dealing with Gentoo again and had heard good things about Arch so I thought I'd try it out, so far it's been a pleasant experience.

Raptorista · 2011-08-01 21:02:55

Hello everybody!
My name is Massimiliano and I write from Italy

I chose Arch Linux after two years of Ubuntu because I didn't like Ubuntu latest release and wanted to try a rolling distro with KDE.. So a friend said "try Arch" and I said "I'll try Arch!".

Hope to learn a lot and not give up and run back to Ubuntu [as it happened with Gentoo XD].

Gotta go posting my first noob question, bye!!

alphaniner · 2011-08-01 21:19:49

Hello everyone!

I've been using Arch for over a year now. I had already cut my teeth on Ubuntu so I hadn't visited the Newbie forum before.

I absolutely love Arch, but in particular I encourage everyone to make good use of the excellent Arch wiki. Even for general Linux knowledge, I have found it to be superior to any other single resource I had come across before.

Arch Linux

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