null Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I browsed a few of the arch linux forums that I found by googling... they don't seem to be as friendly as mub. Also, many people's posts were just left hanging, after one reply or so - with the problem not being solved. What's a good arch linux forum, and in mub - how many arch gurus are here? After d/l & burning ubuntu (5.10), kanotix-64, genieOS, and arch, it seems that arch is very highly thought of. So I'm probably gonna stick it on my win2k box and try it out dual-boot. I understand that it is a great "learning" distro. [Moved from Other Linux Distributions by arctic] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Concerning Arch, ask iphitus (Arch developer), tyme or scarecrow if you have questions. ;) Don't know about their forums. I guess they are mostly friendly, as most other forums,too. But we are - of course - the friendliest of them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 The Arch forums (bbs.archlinux.org) are OK, you just have to be patient, and disregard a couple of snobbish members (fortunately enough they are just few of them). Initially I felt a bit unconfortable there (that is some two years ago), but soon enough I found out that the Arch community is in general friendly, knowledgable and helpful- factly much less snobbish than the Gentoo or Ubuntu "geek elite". Here myself, Tyme, and Iphitus are all regular Arch users, although only Iphitus should be close to the "geek" descritiption (since he is active in the Arch development, providing the Beyond kernel patchset- which isn't strictly Arch specific). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I've been a member of the Gentoo forum for three years and I've asked lots of questions there and I've never run into the so called "elite snobs" that I hear people complain about.. Everyone has gone out of there way to help me and I've even had a few developers take the time to answer my questions. Just because you run into a few people that aren't nice doesn't make the whole forum bad. We've had our share of problems here over the years but I don't think that affects the forum as a whole. And I do visit the Gentoo forums repeatedly throughout the day so I'm quite familiar with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 you see the elite snoobishness of gentoo users more outside of their forum than in it. unless there's a thread in it about some other distribution...then you see it ;) but ya, myself, iphitus and scarecrow are all arch users. iphitus is the most knowledgeable probably, which is kind of funny, because i introduced him to arch linux back when he was a young linux user - and helped him learn some of the basics...now, the student has become the master and vice versa, it would seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted July 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 (edited) Ok, if I put it on my win2k box, I guess I'll stick with mub - other linux distros - for any questions. I've got a 120-day "student" version of MS Project on my win2k box, so I'll probably wait till I finish that class until screwing with my win2k box. I've only got something like 20 days left of my 120-day trial version - and I've still got most of my Project assignment still to do.... I need to get off my butt and finish it... I backed up the date on my win2k box 1 month, just in case that might fool the trial version... Anyway, I checked out 3 diff arch forums this afternoon, and I selected a couple of posts to read thru ... One had a decent reply, with help, and the other just had a snobby reply, with no help. Good to know some experts are here. Isn't James a teenager...? Man, I'm 46 now, but I was smarter back in high school..,. All those years of beer, margaritas, cigars, 4 hours of sleep every night.... edit: But we are - of course - the friendliest of them all. I agree. Edited July 1, 2006 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 iphy's 18 now i think...or 17. i can never remember. also, i wasn't even aware of arch forums outside of their official forums :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted July 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 (edited) I was probably checking out the Arch sections of general linux sites, such as: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/arch-linux-help/ I have not checked the "official" ones. Another "non-specific" forum I like is linuxquestions.org. I've gotten good help there, with RH, FC, Mandriva or whatever. Edited July 1, 2006 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 well you should :-P it's probably the best option. (http://bbs.archlinux.org) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted July 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 ok, I read thru several threads in the official forum... You're right, it's definately the best place for help & info. A couple of newbies got a little impatient, which made the experts irritated... and then it just goes nowhere... But it looks like a great place, can't wait to try arch out as a "play" distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 I'm an arch user also - and you do find a lot of helpful friendly people on the arch forums, but you also encounter a lot of elitism where people only want a few "experts" to discover their precious little distro. For me it's great because it's fast, lightweight and has the best (imho) package manager around - in fact it's the package manager that really makes it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 but ya, myself, iphitus and scarecrow are all arch users. iphitus is the most knowledgeable probably, which is kind of funny, because i introduced him to arch linux back when he was a young linux user - and helped him learn some of the basics...now, the student has become the master and vice versa, it would seem. funny how things go isnt it. I've learnt a helluva from you too in particular. im 17 now, 18 in August, good memory :) The official arch forums, bbs.archlinux.org are pretty well balanced forums really. Not many threads are left unsolved, and if they are, it's often because the person who started it didnt follow it up. There's plenty of great people who really really know their stuff, but aren't snobbish about it - I'm nothing compared to the likes of phrakture, JGC, cactus and many notable others. The other nice thing about them, is they're more of a community, there's a lot of interaction between developers, trusted users and users, and really, there's little to seperate them in different groups or anything, we're all just community members. So if you do have a problem, that's prolly the best spot to go, I'll make sure I have somethin to say if I see you there. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 (edited) 46- wow, you're a youngster. I'm going 48 in a couple of months! :D Since you already have some experience with advanced distros like FC5, you will find it easy to install Arch. Just start with a minimal installation (base) and the very basic configuration. the installler is text mode, but fairly easy to understand and use, especially if your harddisk is already prepartitioned. After having a working base it is really the easiest distro on planet earth to handle- everything goes around editing few+ well commented configuration files. Edited July 1, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Geesh, you guys are old. Is there a bridge club on arch forum :P :D Just kidding ;) On topic, Arch forum is quiet good in my opinion. I visit there often, but I havn't posted (two or three about some arch artwork I made) there since the days when I also had Arch on my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Geesh, you guys are old. Is there a bridge club on arch forum :P :D Hey! I'm only 25 :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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