The Official Hello Everyone Thread

cybertorture · 2011-09-25 11:52:55

Hello Battus,
Welcome to Archlinux.
Few hints:
- wiki is your friend
- arch is general purpose OS, so it will most likely suit all your needs
- keep system up-to date ( hell it is a rolling-release, so no more wait few months for new stuff )
- if something breaks - do not panic

also you may ask some moderator to merge with this threat

bernarcher · 2011-09-25 11:55:03

cybertorture wrote:

also you may ask some moderator to merge with this threat

And done ...

cybertorture · 2011-09-25 11:55:59

@bernarcher ha ha, thanks

Jmaz · 2011-09-26 07:27:21

Yo name is John (Jmaz on here). Have been running Linux for many years, started running Slackware when it was new, but new to Arch ...... very pleased. I just purchased a new system and was hoping to not even boot the pre-installed windoze, but being a dumba... well you know .. I did not have a 64 bit install disk. Booted windows, downloaded the 64 bit install iso, burned a disk, shutdown windoze and loaded Arch. No dual boot crap here. I had some issues with the network driver (r8168 vs r8169) for the integrated Intel chip, but using this forum was able to resolve that issue. Have put together a nice environment and ARCH ROCKS!!!! (just had to do that).

After getting my environment set up, I saw the windoze 7 disk and thought hey what the heck, I have an i7 chip and should be able to run windoze in a window. Again, using this fourm and the various Arch Wiki's have win7 installed and running as a VM. Seems to run pretty well. I still have some perf tweaking to do and windoze is downloading the 250 M of updates so the tweaks will have to wait.

I was running F3d0ra 14 and was OK with it. Then saw the info about 15 being released, so I jumped right on that......ouch! Gnome 3 ..... really????? Wound up reloading with the xfce spin for release 15 and that was pretty useable. After ordering the new system, starting looking around for something .... well better. I have live CD's of most of the major distro's and found Arch to be the most apealing to me. I have had some issues, but nothing that cannot be solved and when you get done, you have YOUR environment.

ARCH ROCKS and remeber kids Arch Forums are your friends

ottovonstein · 2011-09-26 18:00:12

Hy everyone!
I'm just another froggy moving on to the Arch!

Well the why is just that i don't feel like dumping my good old DELL Latitude and i have to find a lighter distribution...
But i'm dead happy i moved to Archlinux.
I have been using linux for a couple of years now. Started with ubuntu, then past a while with fedora.
But i felt like having something more "personnal"...
So here i am!

Rocking for a free world !

Darkpandaextremist · 2011-09-27 13:04:15

Hello everyone im pretty new to linux in general about 2 yrs but ive already tried soo many distros and so many DE/WM been using arch linux for a while now of and on and with all the greate documentation ive never had to ask a single question im now making a dedication to arch and so joining the forum hope to make a little contribution to the community

r9o5a12s7m3 · 2011-09-27 18:52:44

Hi everyone! I've been using Arch since mar/2009 and I really love it. I got a long way trying many distros and when I knew Arch, I discovered "perfection".

SanskritFritz · 2011-09-28 05:21:51

r9o5a12s7m3 wrote:

Hi everyone! I've been using Arch since mar/2009 and I really love it. I got a long way trying many distros and when I knew Arch, I discovered "perfection".

And this is your first post? You're a patient man

systole · 2011-09-28 07:38:34

As a cisco networking student, I have been playing around with the cli for a couple of years. I learned a lot, setting up dynamips and dynagen remotely on a friends ubuntu server. I have wanted to try another distro outside of ubuntu, mint, fedora, and opensuse servers I have running at home. Currently learning arch to set up a VM for the diagramming tool Dia on my mac, as I am a big fan of openbox when I have to use a GUI. I just haven't found the right underlying distro, and am hoping arch is it. Maybe some day I'll live entirely in the CLI.

Hello from Minnesnowta.

eeVe · 2011-09-28 11:26:41

Hello everyone. A month ago I discoverd linux 3 weeks ago I discoverd debian 2 weeks ago I discovered arch now I made the final transition from windows to linux after learning how to set it up.

wwx9996 · 2011-09-29 17:01:15

Hello everyone. I am a CS student from the United Kingdom. I have been using arch for years and now feel like it is about time I started making an effort to engage with the community and possibly give something back.

Telamont · 2011-09-30 07:54:47

Hey i'm telamont and ive been using arch for about 4-5 months now and loving it but just now decided to join the forums. ive only really known bout linux for less then a year but i feel im learning at a decent pace and always willing to learn more. love arch cause of how customizable it is and how you have to actually interact with ur file system and learn what to install and how to config it.. i find things like ubuntu where u pop in a disk and click next 5 times and u got an os boring and uninteresting. So in short hello everyone hope we can talk and make some good conections and friendships.

zhogan85 · 2011-09-30 18:06:28

Hi all!

I can't be considered an Arch user just yet, but have been reading the forums a lot the past week or two and am finally gonna take the plunge this weekend. I'm planning on a multiboot Ubuntu->#!->Arch. I've been an Ubuntu user for about two years now, and having become familiar with the CLI, and wanting to learn to take fuller control of my system, I've decided to switch (at least part time) to Arch.

Hopefully, by tomorrow evening, I too will be an Arch user!!

pyarch · 2011-09-30 19:28:21

HI all!
I have been a linux user for quiet some time but now I feel I have to start learning more and engage myself more into the community and thought I would do so with ArchLinux.
just downloaded the ArchLinux ISO hopefully in a day or 2 I should have setup my ArchLinux with KDE

PranavG · 2011-10-01 06:28:57

Hi all Arch users! I am Pranav From India using Arch linux for about a year.A day never goes such that i haven't learned something about arch linux and linux in general.The wiki is best and competitive to gentoo's.In fact,I request all newbies to first use ubuntu,fedora and all other distros which are simple to use and then when you have some control over linux and it's basics,architecture you shift over to Arch linux (then only you will understand the true power of arch linux).Arch linux is a rolling release.so upgrading is always supported and is never a problem.I have learnt a lot about linux thanks to arch linux wiki and it's contributors.

!!kudos to all achlinux users!!

Y3k · 2011-10-03 00:46:45

I'm an italian informatic engineer. I've just started using archlinux a week ago, and it rocks! Planning to leave windows 7 to gaming alone in the near future. Great work guys!

jpope · 2011-10-03 07:03:16

While I've been running Linux for about 3 years, today was the first time I attempted to install Arch. And thanks to the awesome Arch wiki I was successful. w00t!

rozanbiology · 2011-10-03 09:54:28

Hello everybody,
I am Rozan from the Netherlands.
I just started with archlinux and I love it. I wouldn't advice it for absolute linux beginners, but if you are not afraid of a command line and willing to invest some time in getting everything to work, this system is great.
Love pacman.

cking · 2011-10-03 15:04:09

Hello everyone! I'm Australian, have a mid-Atlantic accent (sorry ladies), play games, and am teaching myself programming for the purpose of also making games.

I found my way to Arch out of interest in the challenge of it, a desire for a lightweight system, and frustrations with Ubuntu (due to not meeting the former requirement--but one of my Linux mates said Lubuntu was perfect for him in that regard).

So far I'm very happy with how hands-on the system is. I'm almost afraid of the moment when things stop requiring me to fix them... or fix my repairs to them. With all the blood, sweat and tears I've put into setting Arch up, I don't think I'll be hopping distros, though I was eyeing Gentoo before.

karol · 2011-10-03 15:07:22

cking wrote:

Hello everyone! I'm Australian, have a mid-Atlantic accent (sorry ladies)

Not sure how many women you can find here, but I'm curious why would your accent matter?

MooGu · 2011-10-03 15:25:32

Hi, everybody!

I'm MooGu, from China.

I like Arch so much , even though just installed it on my desktop computer in Lab yesterday.
It is clean and beautiful~

Archibald Tux · 2011-10-03 21:01:16

I had tried Mandrake back in 1999 and needless to say I could not get the dial up or sound to work so I trudged through with $dows '98se upgrading from 3.11 for Workgroups. Moved on to $dows XP and thought that was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Almost two years ago XP stopped hot-fixes, just security updates were issued and not long after that things started to break. I had heard good things about how far Linux had come and rather than fork out the $ for $dows 7 I thought I might give it (Linux) a try, I was hooked. First OpenSuse, then Ubuntu, LinuxMint my queries starting pointing me to the Fedora forums so I tried Fedora 15 out. They are all good but generic and I am not happy knowing it works anymore but I want to know how and why it works (I think that's how most people feel that are on Arch or Gentoo) and that is when my queries started pointing to the Arch forums. So here I am, it took a total of 18 hours (a lot of downloading) to install Arch to my laptop and it was worth every minute of it. I have been on Arch a week now (noob) and am extremely impressed with the documentation on Arch. I was looking at Gentoo as well as Arch but it was the documentation that won me over. I look forward to a long "continuous" run !

cking · 2011-10-04 06:35:59

karol wrote:

cking wrote:
Hello everyone! I'm Australian, have a mid-Atlantic accent (sorry ladies)
Not sure how many women you can find here, but I'm curious why would your accent matter?

Haha, aren't Australians and the British meant to have irresistible accents? I have a very boringly American-like accent.

Deadvi · 2011-10-04 11:38:00

Hello everyone!!

My real name is Davide, i'm 20 years old and i study Informatic Engineering at The Minho University. I'm from Portugal and a friend of mine lead me to install Arch. I'm not a complete noob on Unix systems but neither a pro. So if time to time i make some stupid questions forgive me
I'm reading all the documentation and looking for all the things needed to install Arch so i will be very active on the forum.

Greeting to all! I can wait to try out Arch

octavian · 2011-10-04 18:22:04

Hey fellow Archers!

I come from Crunchbang and though my distro hopping days ended for the better. Then Arch came to my sight and had to try it. I'm all about simplicity and lightweigth and my current setup (not much different than #!) is even lighter and practical.

Now to pimp my arch.

Hope to make lots of friends.

I know some of the guys at #! also post here so I'm hoping to get in touch with them and more people

Stay simple and powerful!

Octavian

Arch Linux

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