The Official Hello Everyone Thread

milomir · 2011-09-12 11:08:42

hello all

i installed arch yesterday (already got it configured and all), and i can say i am impressed..

i was going from distro to distro for over 5 years (was using mostly centos), and now that i found arch my journey is over.

thanks to all the developers!

DL1JHP · 2011-09-12 19:24:26

Hey everyone!
I've been using Arch for quite some time now and have finally decided to try the forums (not only for answers...). My history of Linux began with Suse 6.1 followed by Ubuntu, Debian and gentoo. While I enjoyed gentoos general speed and the ebuild-system I was never really comfortable with the huge amount of time it took to compile the builds. So I came to use Arch, and I have never regretted it since.
Speed, surprisingly easy to setup/configure and I was finally pushed to abandon the huge Gnome-dependency-glob

So huge thanks to all developers (and of course all the other involved individuals)!

jacmoe · 2011-09-12 19:31:47

Hi guys!

New Arch user here - mostly by 'mistake'

I've been using Aptosid for a while (Debian Sid), but due to nVidia and Xorg going out of sync with each other, and the Nouveau driver refusing to work correctly with my nVidia card, I decided to try something else..
And I want a rolling release distribution, so the choice was simple enough: Arch.
The installation was impossible to perform using an nVdia card, because the console was spammed by EDID messages..
So I ended up taking out my trusted nVidia card and replacing it with an ATI.
So now I am using Arch and ATI (open source driver this time).
And I just love it.

Even though I panicked for a small second when I saw the installer.

jayson_r · 2011-09-13 03:28:45

Hi all - happy new Arch user here. I've been using Linux since 2001 (i think) - my first install was Red Hat 7.3. I installed KDE then because the "linux-using friend" that helped me get it installed said "Install KDE...GNOME Sucks". Well, not knowing the difference I did what he said, and I stuck with KDE and RedHat/Fedora through Fedora Core 1. I tried out Mandrake for a short while as well as Yoper (for an even shorter while) and finally settled in as a Slackware (KDE) user and stayed there until late in 2005 when I got my first AMD64 system, and wanting a x86_64 distro, and hearing all about this groovy new "Ubuntu" and it's Kubuntu KDE version I installed that and pretty much stayed put. I didn't like KDE4 when it first came out so switched to regular Ubuntu, and Foresight for a while, but aside from occasional bouts with distro-hopping fever I've pretty much been a *buntu user since 2005. Not really sure why I stuck with *buntu so long, I'm not really their target user-base...I guess it's because it just "worked" and I became comfortable with how it was set up and how to admin it, and was just too lazy to change.

Finally, the whole Unity/GNOME-Shell thing happened. I've tried both (Unity on Ubuntu and Shell on Fedora) and not liking some things about either one, I decided I'd neglected KDE for long enough and wanted to give it another shot. I installed Kubuntu and liked KDE well enough again but didn't like some things about "Kubuntu".

I've always wanted to try Arch, and *love* the idea of a rolling release (Debian Testing/Sid never worked out well for me) so I decided to set up Arch and KDE, and boy I'm sure glad I did. I think Arch is the sure-fire cure for distro-hopping...I'm 99.9% sure I'll never switch now, after just 3 days.

Aside from personal stuff, I do admin a few CentOS servers at work, and we have a couple of Ubuntu servers we'd set up before settling in on CentOS for our corporate stuff though. We were a 100% MS shop before I got promoted from PC Tech 5 years ago, and now we have quit a few Linux boxes in the mix, and we use Xen for our virtualization (although the Citrix packaged one though - still CentOS under the hood though). We are even considering moving from Avaya to Asterisk for our telecom solution (I share Telecom admin responsibilities as well) so that we can have an open system to program against...we feel locked in with Avaya and do some groovy things w/ our call-center. I'm also a Mac user - my company-issue work laptop is a Mac.

Anyway - sorry for rambling on - Hi! and as I learn more, I hope to be around here helping others out as well.

nos09 · 2011-09-13 18:09:47

Alright ... as everybody here in this thread i m new to arch too.. and saying hello !! i m hoping i m gonna make some hell of a friends around here too ... lol
and yeah i forgot -- Arch is awesome ! loving it from the first installation ... and hopefully i will for so many coming years ..

Ahks · 2011-09-14 00:14:35

Hi my names Mike, and I'm an Archoholic...

**Hi Mike!**

So yeah I'm field engineer fixing printers and doing pc and printer warranty work as well as hardware repair of midrange systems and retail systems, etc. If it shakes, beeps, buzzez, illuminates in some semi computerized fashion I have a screw driver for it... I used to want to be a network engineer and may still work to a CCNA at some point but I'm still diggin the gig I landed a few years ago...

At this point I'm pretty much a linux newbie but a fast learner and an avid DIYer in everything but home repair, medical and dental work. Arch seems a perfect distro for my tinkering addiction.

So.

Hi

zwa · 2011-09-14 13:52:01

It's been several years since the last time I logged in. I have been a linux user since late 2005 (mainly using debian/ubuntu) and a couple days ago I decided to try Arch once again. So far so good, anyway I am not the linux newbie I was 6 years ago, but learning never ends though...

I hope I will be a Arch user for many years from now on :-)

Peace.

faviouz · 2011-09-15 07:36:42

I finally got the time to move away from Ubuntu, and I'm loving ArchLinux so far!

smmilut · 2011-09-15 09:38:38

Hi everyone!

I use Arch as my main distro since something like a year, and from the start i really felt at home. I learned a darn lot in many ways (well, i started low ) thanks mostly to the helpful forum and the sexy wiki you guys have.
Big thanks to you all for that!!

I hope to be able to share a bit of that usefullness overload. For now, i have pkgstats installed on all of my arches, and i'm working on my first PKGBUILDs...
When i'll become useful, you'll be the firsts to know!

Skipper_the_eye_child · 2011-09-15 17:04:57

I am new to Arch as of a week ago coming from Simply Mepis (prior to this Anti-X; and before then Mandriva), and so far have been dead impressed, finding it easy to setup. I dislike having a multi-OS system, and forever changing distros, so am hoping to stick with this for a VERY long time. At this juncture of my 'linux life', I know what apps I use, which WMs I get along with, and those I don't, so building up a lightweight OS from scratch made perfect sense. It is also fantastic to be freed from the tyranny of updating ones mirrors every 6 months or so, where you know in time the maintenance will be dropped if you don't. I didn't choose this distro for its being 'bleeding edge', but precisely because I want to GET ON and use my computer for the everyday things that I need it for, without bloatedness and upgrading headaches. Network driver issues aside (another thread), I am close, at last, to being released from the hold of my computer.

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omelette · 2011-09-16 02:20:12

Hi. I'm a linux noobie since about 2007, abandoned M$ almost completely back then - almost, in that I still have a Virtualbox'ed XP on hand to run a few old favourites! With my mainstay Fedora 14 getting on in years, I'm looking around for a new Linux home, and Arch's "rolling release" system seems quite attractive.

awelomustaine · 2011-09-16 17:58:13

Hi people¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ I'm awelomustaine, Viva México this is an excellent idea for a forum thank god for the Rolling Release

tehlittleninja · 2011-09-18 20:01:39

Hello all, been tinkering with different distros and I just started with arch! Loving it so far!

KeKeSeB · 2011-09-19 09:11:34

Hi everyone, I've been an arch user for a couple of years now. I had an account on the forum, but apparently, it was deleted, so here, I'm back

brianjsingh · 2011-09-21 01:58:38

Hello. Been an off & on Linux user for a few years now but totally abandoned Windows a few months ago and just dove into Linux head first. I've tried a few distros & couldn't quite customize them to my exact liking. Then one day I was playing around with an ArchBang Live CD and had to find out more about Arch. The documentation is spectacular and I find the "do it yourself" approach to be a perfect fit for me. I worked through the Beginners' Guide in VirtualBox and am now going to install Arch as my OS on my netbook.

s0l0d0l0 · 2011-09-21 08:50:30

Hi everyone,

"Download ARCH"
"Make a bootable usb"
"Install and Configure"
Advice from my brother that snapped me out of xp and ubuntu. I've learned alot just by installing, and Im hoping that if I stay on this site Ill learn loads more.

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dugword · 2011-09-22 05:52:00

Hey All,

I have been using Arch with LXDE for a couple months now and I have to say that I love it. It runs great on my old P4 system.

Ubuntu used to be my distro of choice buy after they introduced that Unity nonsense I knew it was time to part ways.

Really love the control of Arch and the process of building up the OS with just the packages I want.

darkrevenant · 2011-09-22 13:57:26

Hi guys.

been using arch for several month and i'm happy with it.

stefocefo · 2011-09-22 17:01:07

Hi everybody, i'm new to arch and i love it!

rubdos · 2011-09-22 19:01:19

Hi! I'm new to Arch (coming from Ubuntu, want an adventure!), and I already love it, though I'm stuck at starting X blacks out...

karol · 2011-09-22 19:06:20

rubdos wrote:

Hi! I'm new to Arch (coming from Ubuntu, want an adventure!), and I already love it, though I'm stuck at starting X blacks out...

If you can't figure it out yourself, open a thread in the appropriate forum and post the logs + any important info about your hardware and software setup.

rubdos · 2011-09-22 19:10:52

karol wrote:

rubdos wrote:
Hi! I'm new to Arch (coming from Ubuntu, want an adventure!), and I already love it, though I'm stuck at starting X blacks out...
If you can't figure it out yourself, open a thread in the appropriate forum and post the logs + any important info about your hardware and software setup.

Exactly what I did at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 36#p994136

gshroc · 2011-09-23 06:53:55

Medium knowledge linux user but new here and new to Arch. What a breath of fresh air this amazing OS is!

rubdos · 2011-09-23 13:59:27

gshroc wrote:

Medium knowledge linux user but new here and new to Arch. What a breath of fresh air this amazing OS is!

I had the same when I booted the Live CD: WTF, that fast! Love it and IT...

Battus · 2011-09-25 08:56:04

Just wanted to say hello and that I installed basic Arch via netinstall CD yesterday. I have to say I had more fun than with all the 5 or 6 more popular distros which, as a Linux noob, I've been trying out over the last few weeks.

I think I shall be staying with Arch longer. Really pleased I've found it :-)!

Anybody know why it's called Arch, by the way?

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