General Category => Off-Topic => Topic started by: mandog on 26 August 2017, 01:33:37
Title: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 26 August 2017, 01:33:37
Hi its mandog here most users know me, Its great to be here at the birth of Artix
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: rakya77 on 26 August 2017, 10:40:15
Hello, rakya77 here. I'm fairly new to linux. Had my first linux installed around February this year. I am getting somewhat familiar with terminal usage. I am still new and learning, installed(migrated from Manjaro) Artix on my main desktop. I hope you to be somewhat patient with me and point me to the right direction.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: fungalnet on 26 August 2017, 10:48:01
Finally, it is a good place to be. It has been almost a month since the dramatic announcement and my Artix runs like a swiss clock. I am running sddm and openbox and lxde on top of it. Mostly use the openbox. Except with a few upgrading hickups with misplaced signatures on pkgs in my first 3 days it has been trouble-free no matter what I throw at it.
2 thumbs up to the team
By the way, my manjaro-openrc still upgrades fine and works, but with all I have running at login Artix is even lighter in ram. About 50% what it was in Debian before abandonment.
I had made initially a blog with open comments for people trying artix to help each other but after the "weird" reaction in Manjaforum I switched to a more general one sysdfree.wordpress.com where I have praised artix and being honest about it. Not that artix users would ever need help with anything.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mbb on 26 August 2017, 11:41:59
Hi there! mbb here, not very participative but I like to read a lot and be aware of things. I expect Artix to become the base non-systemd install for Arch systems. Really hope this gets going and growing. I'm not using Artix for now. I installed it in a VM some weeks ago and all went fine. I'll keep an eye on it and provide any feedback I find adequate in the future.
Cheers,
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: conky60 on 26 August 2017, 13:34:18
Greetings from former Manjaro OpenRC user (was conky57 on Manjaro forum). Great to be here and many thanks to Artix team. I am using Artix with KDE Plasma 5. :)
Best regards
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: robin0800 on 26 August 2017, 14:35:48
Hi it's robin0800 here at last. after about 50 attempts at registering, the letters I found difficult to read, it must be my age.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: thefallenrat on 26 August 2017, 14:41:00
Hiya! I'm thefallenrat. You may know me well if you were active in manjaro forums. I switched to Artix successfully from my manjaro openRC. Since then, I become more happy than I ever was...
I'm grateful to be able to register in this forum and I hope you guys treat me well
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Parmaster on 26 August 2017, 14:44:24
Hi it's robin0800 here at last. after about 50 attempts at registering, the letters I found difficult to read, it must be my age.
I can switch to reCaptcha (but it's Google), maybe a little easier.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: kb41 on 26 August 2017, 22:36:01
Hello I'm kb41 from Mnajaro forums. I switched one of spare machines that I would play with on openrc to artix. Ithas worked worked like a charm. I also ahd issues trying to register as those letters were terribly hard to read
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Parmaster on 27 August 2017, 00:17:28
I also ahd issues trying to register as those letters were terribly hard to read
If I'm honest I don't see any captcha. Show me a screenshot please.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: fungalnet on 27 August 2017, 00:29:30
That thing was so horrible I thought I was going blind and deaf. I would hear the code, look at the letters and still got it wrong. It should have banned my IP on the basis of being a dumb bot! Finally I got it and couldn't believe it.
But if it keep google out keep it. What do we care, we are in already :)
How come we are all Manjaro refugees here, has anyone told the Arch-OpenRC people?
Has anyone heard or tried obarun (https://web.obarun.org/)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 27 August 2017, 00:58:58
Yes I'm a long time obarun user now with S6 very nice but eric struggles at times on his own, but he is a wizard on IRC and will stay with it till its fixed.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Parmaster on 27 August 2017, 01:17:35
Yes I'm a long time obarun user now with S6 very nice but eric struggles at times on his own, but he is a wizard on IRC and will stay with it till its fixed.
I hope I contributed to obarun's publicity then http://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/119/ Any linux that is dedicated in running free of systemd is on the right track. Someday our "choice" will be rewarded!
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: conky60 on 27 August 2017, 23:30:43
I hope I contributed to obarun's publicity then http://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/119/ Any linux that is dedicated in running free of systemd is on the right track. Someday our "choice" will be rewarded!
Our "choice" is rewarded even now....we are here, and systemd free.
Best regards.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: dbvu0 on 28 August 2017, 12:59:25
Hi dbvu0 here, Some of you might know me from Manjaro Openrc forum. I have learned a lot from all of you and I'm happy to continue that. Thanks to Artoo etal for this great distro!
db
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Koeshi on 28 August 2017, 17:05:50
Another Manjaro OpenRC user here. I am still running it at the moment with a couple of Artix VMs to see how things go.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: suska on 28 August 2017, 21:54:37
Hi there,
I used Manjaro OpenRC for about 3 years. It still hurts a bit it's gone forever. But this place makes it easier to handle.
Thanks to Artoo and all others working on Artix. You do a great job.
Greets suska
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mr_dashi on 29 August 2017, 05:24:08
I've been using Linux for only 2 years now, and only "know" systemd. Linux evolves, rather than designed, but I question whether or not systemd is the right fork/path. It's really not a fork, but rather it's becoming a "core" dependency and influencing Linux development in a heavy handed manner, all the way downstream, and limiting end user choices. I'm a little worried. I'm not actually anti-systemd, but I want to see a healthy, diverse Linux ecosystem with the power of choice. Large platforms like Gnome with hard dependancies on systemd isn't good.
I really like Pacman and Arch, with Antergos and vanilla Arch being my main daily drivers for the past 6 months. I like to play around in VMs and really liked Devuan and Artix, but I prefer Pacman over Apt and am now dual booting Artix and Antergos.
My needs are pretty simple. Basic file management, printer support, outboard USB audio DAC, Spotify, mpd + client, and a vpn. Simple config, portable, and no issues with Artix. Big thanks to eveyrone that's made Artix a reality.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Aryvandaar on 31 August 2017, 10:43:46
Hello. Long time Linux and Manjaro user here. I switched to Manjaro OpenRC when it became available. I never really liked systemd, just felt needlessly bloated to me. I've been using Funtoo as well, which is a distro that only uses OpenRC. Before Manjaro, I think I've used all kinds of distros from the main branches, independent and ones based on these.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mrbrklyn on 03 September 2017, 04:05:19
Hello
My name is Ruben Safir, and I'm from Brooklyn NY. I'm a long term Linux user migrating from opensuse tp Manjaro openrc and now we move on this this project. The switch has me a little nervous but presents opportunities to get involved in ways I had not previously be able to do. I've used Linux based systems for about 2 decades, and use wmaker as a desktop. I code in C++, Perl, and anything else that is required. I just completed an MS in Comp Sci and I thought I had a PhD in Computational Biology lined up, but it seems to have fallen though, which is very disappointing.
I founded NYLXS http://www.nylxs.com My home page is http://www.mrbrklyn.com Some Brooklyn things at http://www.brooklyn-living.com
It is a pleasure to meet everyone.
Reuvain
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 03 September 2017, 04:24:41
Hi and welcome you know me anyway from Manjaro have a great stay I think this is the ideal time to get involved and good luck.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: fungalnet on 04 September 2017, 00:34:53
Am I wrong or is it that everyone here is from Manjaro and there hasn't been a single introduction from Arch-Openrc ? If so, why so?
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Koeshi on 04 September 2017, 21:14:20
Am I wrong or is it that everyone here is from Manjaro and there hasn't been a single introduction from Arch-Openrc ? If so, why so?
Arch users are anti-social? :D Or they prefer IRC, or haven't bothered migrating. What was the size of the Arch-OpenRC community and do they know? I haven't seen any announcement from Arch regarding deprecating OpenRC.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: fungalnet on 05 September 2017, 13:02:52
This was originally the arch-operc page, I think systemd-free.org. The last updated installer of that system is dated July-01
Top article there reads:
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Important update The information provided in this site, where it pertains to the Arch ecosystem, has become deprecated with the birth of a new Arch-derivative distro: Artix, the result of the joint efforts of the people behind Arch-OpenRC and Manjaro-OpenRC. Despite being still in beta, it's at least as stable and usable as the former projects. Its repositories override the official Arch ones and contain only systemd-free packages. It uses OpenRC as its default init system with support for s6 and runit.
People using our {arch-openrc} and {arch-nosystemd} repositories and people using manjaro-openrc, are advised to convert their systems to Artix.
I think pretty much artix is the renaming of that project with some cosmetic touch-ups and custom kernels.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Jyrki on 06 September 2017, 18:26:03
Heippa, I am Jyrki, been running Linux since 1997, in the meantime I moved to FreeBSD for few years. I switched back to Linux thanks to Arch, thanks to Pacman and their BSD-style init, this was before they started with systemd. Recently I was running Manjaro-openrc and now I run Artix with XFCE on all my machines. Thanks to Artoo and his team for the hard work and wish them all the best and big success!
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: ᒤᕞᕹᓸ on 06 September 2017, 23:44:02
Greetings and Salutations. Coming from manjaro openrc after using manjaro since .8 or whatever the depreciated version system they used; manjaro was systemd only at first, but their community brought me to openrc. Have lurked manjaro since the begining and ironically the end of openrc Manjaro.
Started as a ubuntu/mint alpha/beta tester whom left when Shuttleworth threw out wayland after supporting it for ~1.5 years. Went to manjaro to manjaro openrc. Double and triple booted other GNU/Linux flavors over the years Fedora, Void, Obarun, Alpine, Qubes, Kali, Black Arch, Parabola, Puppy, FreeBSD, OPNsense, Redox, and a few others. Love runit (tried on Void Linux) and s6 (obarun), but I was unable to find documentation to load lvm2 on luks on boot from either. Wasn't able to find a simple enoch distro.
Hopefully obarun joins our little collective along with other devs.
Many thank you's and appreciation for the work being done by everyone!
PS: Please bring out the other languages again. We had some Portuguese and French posters on the interim forum. PPS: When is the site going https?
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mrbrklyn on 07 September 2017, 02:45:47
Greetings and Salutations. Coming from manjaro openrc after using manjaro since .8 or whatever the depreciated version system they used; manjaro was systemd only at first, but their community brought me to openrc. Have lurked manjaro since the begining and ironically the end of openrc Manjaro.
Started as a ubuntu/mint alpha/beta tester whom left when Shuttleworth threw out wayland after supporting it for ~1.5 years. Went to manjaro to manjaro openrc. Double and triple booted other GNU/Linux flavors over the years Fedora, Void, Obarun, Alpine, Qubes, Kali, Black Arch, Parabola, Puppy, FreeBSD, OPNsense, Redox, and a few others. Love runit (tried on Void Linux) and s6 (obarun), but I was unable to find documentation to load lvm2 on luks on boot from either. Wasn't able to find a simple enoch distro.
Hopefully obarun joins our little collective along with other devs.
Many thank you's and appreciation for the work being done by everyone!
PS: Please bring out the other languages again. We had some Portuguese and French posters on the interim forum. PPS: When is the site going https?
how do you do the testing?
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: ᒤᕞᕹᓸ on 07 September 2017, 03:28:49
Nothing extensive. Would load daily iso's from time to time and would run the developmental branch before release. So Alpha or Beta Ubuntu before release and then wait a month or so for the next developmental branch. Report bugs on launchpad and sometimes give patches.
With manjaro/arch I just have arch's gnome-unstable, kde-unstable, staging, community-staging, multilib-staging, testing, testing-community, multilib-testing repositories.
Now I have system-staging, world-staging, galaxy-staging, system-testing, world-testing, galaxy-testing and the maybe not recommended multilib-testing, testing, testing-community.
Anyone know the official stance on using arch's multilib-testing, testing, testing-community repos?
I tried adding the staging to this, but the dependencies broke with 15+ repos.
I like arch/manjaro/artix. I have this quagmire of wanting things to break, but still be stable and functional. Arch rarely breaks, manjaro even less, but I am still on the bleeding edge. So it just works and is very up to date. Not git fresh, but fresh enough.
Ironically systemd broke more than openrc ever has.
Does that answer your question?
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 07 September 2017, 03:45:10
Am I wrong or is it that everyone here is from Manjaro and there hasn't been a single introduction from Arch-Openrc ? If so, why so?
Your wrong I'm a long time arch user since 2005. I tried Manjaro when it 1st came out tried Manjaro openrc but manjaro was a pointless project for me nothing is as simple as Arch why do you need tools that complicate doing any simple task then fail when used. As it is Artix is back to basics of Arch I will stay as long as that does not change, I also use S6 totally systemd free. I only use the Manjaro social media forum that is my only interest with manjaro
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: ᒤᕞᕹᓸ on 07 September 2017, 04:17:39
Your wrong I'm a long time arch user since 2005. I tried Manjaro when it 1st came out tried Manjaro openrc but manjaro was a pointless project for me nothing is as simple as Arch why do you need tools that complicate doing any simple task then fail when used. As it is Artix is back to basics of Arch I will stay as long as that does not change, I also use S6 totally systemd free. I only use the Manjaro social media forum that is my only interest with manjaro
Do you build S6 from aur or use obarun's repositories? Do you know how to have it load luks and lvm2 containers on boot?
Thanks. I am interested as S6 was lightning fast at boot time.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 07 September 2017, 14:32:58
Do you build S6 from aur or use obarun's repositories? Do you know how to have it load luks and lvm2 containers on boot?
Thanks. I am interested as S6 was lightning fast at boot time.
I use Obaruns repro for S6 but remember Obarun is not a distro its a concept so unless you know a fair bit about linux it does not build a complete experience. I introduced JMW to Obarun its not quite the same as my personal set-up which is a fully working set-up that I use on a daily basis. Yes its lightning fast. Just make sure you back up before updates as its very hard to keep up with some of the changes in arch, so their can be the odd breakage, but get eric on the irc channel and he will work on it there and then great guy as well. Luks, lmv2 don't use nothing personal but has no interest to me, it takes 2 mins to do a complete 100% back up using a single partition setup including grub I don't see the point but that is just me.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Follpvosten on 07 September 2017, 19:17:14
Hello, i am a relatively new Manjaro-OpenRC user (have used it for about a year). I used Linux full-time before for about 2 years (Ubuntu 14.04 back then). When i experimented with some distros, i found this systemd thing, did some research on it and decided that i neither needed nor wanted it. And so, my eternal search for the right OS started... I used Manjaro-OpenRC because it offered the most stable systemd-free experience at the moment (as far as i could tell). During my time using it, i fell in love with Plasma 5, which further narrowed down my options. After the announcement of Manjaro-OpenRCs death, i tried Void at first (which i really like from a technical standpoint, runit is by far my favorite init/service manager), but i felt like it limited me a bit too much (tho my main reason to switch away from it was actually that i couldn't write large files, even some between 400 and 500MB, to my SD card). FreeBSD wasn't an option, mostly because of no Virtualbox USB support (but also lack of Plasma 5 in the main ports).
So i finally went to Artix, where i can have a familiar Arch environment and the ease-of-use i'm used to from Manjaro, and also my Plasma 5, without systemd. This is now the best systemd-free Plasma 5 distro/OS at the moment, at least in my book. I will stay until either something breaks so horribly that i can't fix it, or something better and more interesting comes along. I wish best luck to everyone.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 07 September 2017, 19:51:24
Wellcome to the Artix forum.
Void Linux is a damn good DE its biggest drawback is documentation and any sort of willingness to add essential core apps that don't fit Into their own needs, I used cinnamon and it really worked fine. Void was stable as a rock the 18months I had it on trial. But the magestic KDE has some strange quirks in Arch as well but that is the nature of the beast Linux. I did a clean install of Artix as soon as artoo made the announcement using cinnamon its been fine just a couple of hitches with group when I set it up.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: ᒤᕞᕹᓸ on 08 September 2017, 08:53:39
Horay for more members!
@ mandog Well that is fine. What ever floats ones boat. Personally, I like full disk (+boot) luks partitions though. Hopefully someone can point me on how to make other inits prompt for passwords and boot.
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I liked Void. Lean and fast. The xbps (package installer) was limited compared to pacman. And the naming schemes for packages were very strange and non-standard; random uppercase in the middle of a name, no preference of "_" or "-", searches were case sensitive.
Has quirks, but is solid and generally upto date. I ran it for ~1.5 years too. Its enlightenment spin was usually lighter than a manjaro one. And musl based options were extremely light.
Must say Artix has been lighter than manjaro/arch was.
Happy to have everyone here, enjoying Artix.
PS: I saw an "obarun" was registered. They the real deal? If so, very excited!
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: ᒤᕞᕹᓸ on 08 September 2017, 09:16:49
We are going to make Artix-karp into a Artix-arados, right?
Well, as i am a Magikarp worshipper, i despise its evolution and think that it is a massive downgrade. But yeah, i hope Artix will at least be as good as my trusty Level 100 Magikarp.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: ᒤᕞᕹᓸ on 08 September 2017, 09:36:51
Well, as i am a Magikarp worshipper, i despise its evolution and think that it is a massive downgrade. But yeah, i hope Artix will at least be as good as my trusty Level 100 Magikarp.
Hear, hear to Artix's montage to level 100!
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: zawor on 10 September 2017, 19:57:36
Hi I have been using Linux for 15+ years, almost entirely rpm-based distros. About year ago, tired of systemd, I moved to Manjaro OpenRC - mostly for systemd-free system with rolling release. Now migrated to Artix, so far so good... Waiting for kernels that support smapi and acpi_call.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: reboant on 16 September 2017, 20:17:32
Hey folks
Coming from Manjaro-Openrc. Some of you may remember me from the old Manjaro forum. Stopped posted after they changed servers because I couldn't stand newer the layout.
Want to say thank you to all the Artix devs for everything they've done. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Again thank you and I look forward to seeing Artix and this community grow.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: gavin17 on 17 September 2017, 19:33:22
My name is Gavin. I've been using Arch-Openrc/Artix for about half a year now; glad to be a part of the Artix community :D
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 17 September 2017, 23:45:14
Gavin welcome to Artix have a good stay.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: muerte on 18 September 2017, 17:20:41
Hello! ;D I've been running linux for ~2.5 years. My first real experience was Xubuntu 14.04, which I used until 16.06 came out and a friend told me about the woes of systemd. I read about it, and I decided to search for alternatives. Then the same friend pointed me to systemd-free.org. So then I switched to arch-openrc, which I used on my work laptop for almost 1 year. This year I moved to Manjaro-openrc. And now I'm here, hopefully to stay. Migration completed successfully on all my boxes, without any issues. ^_^
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 20 September 2017, 02:30:09
Hello and welcome I think you already know most of us.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: jspaces on 20 September 2017, 07:50:08
Hello everyone. It is great to be here! I am long time Archlinux user and have finally been freed of systemd thanks to Artix Linux. I hope for great things for Artix LInux. The Linux community still has choice and truly wants to continue to have choice of init. Take care everyone and enjoy being systemd free. :)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: obarun on 20 September 2017, 12:29:46
Hi everyone, I'm not using Artix but i'm here to support projects which doesn't works with system:D tips and tricks. I'm a long time user of Arch linux (from 2005, if i remember well) and i'm always thinking that's it a really F@#@king good distro. Happy to see one more projects on Arch without system:D.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: slblxs on 21 September 2017, 17:17:20
I already use this init, that is, Openrc in Arch since it appeared in Manjaro. Then I discovered that there was a way, to migrate from Arch Linux to OpenRc and ever since with the best of both worlds, Arch Linux and not Systemd. That's why I was pleased to hear from you on the Manjaro forum that they were going to discontinue support and become a single distribution. So here I am again, to congratulate you on this excellent project.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: M on 09 October 2017, 16:51:02
Hello to all. (^_^)
My first experience with Linux began in 2012 with 'Bodhi Linux' (an Ubuntu-derivative), which I had used as a secondary operating system until mid-2016 (at which point I abandoned Windows Vista). After using that distribution as my primary operating system for a few months, I craved something much more lightweight (I have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with minimalism, and I attempt to avoid using Iridium/Chromium unless I need to create a forum post...).
At some point in the third quarter of 2016, I discovered Arch (and Gentoo, but I prefer the efficiency of downloading pre-compiled binary packages from repositories). I soon learned more information in regards to initialization systems... I loved certain aspects of Arch, but was repulsed by 'SystemD', as well as the overall unqualified embrace of 'SystemD' by Arch administrators and forum staff.
https://systemd-free.org guided me toward the beaming light of Arch-OpenRC. While not perfect, OpenRC is pretty close (in my view). I had been using Arch-OpenRC since either late-2016 or early 2017. I was aware of the existence of Artix for approximately one month, prior to migrating over on 2017-10-02 (I have Arch-OpenRC installed on quite a few systems, and some software that certain users have (mostly bluetooth-related) require kernel-dependent packages, that Artix does not yet possess. So, I have had to hold off on migrating them).
I rarely join online congregations, but something about Artix caused me to create an account. I very much look forward to learning from (and aiding wherever possible) other users within this forum.
Thank you to all of those that contribute to 'Artix', 'OpenRC', and other reasonable (non-bloated/non-invasive/non-systemd) Linux-related projects. :)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: kb41 on 09 October 2017, 16:57:44
welcme to the wonderful world of Artix !
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: handy on 04 November 2017, 11:34:05
Hi all, finally got here...
I found this thread at the end of my reading through the forum, so I already had bit of a howdy & gratitude to the Artix team elsewhere.
Anyway, for those that don't know me, I've been into GNU/Linux full time, since late 2005: Ubuntu Breezy; then a Ubuntu upgrade broke support for my hardware, so then Sabayon, which broke something, then PC-BSD, then Gentoo, then in early 2008 Arch -> fell in love & stopped distro hopping until the s*stemd thing happened & I got pissed off with the attitude of some of the mods/admins & TU's (in particular, there were lots of fights & lots of disrespect). I wasn't involved in any of the arguments at all. It just turned me off using Arch.
So, in 2011 I moved back to PC-BSD & carried on. Then mips emailed me & told me I should take a look at Manjaro, he reckoned that I'd like it. So I did, & I did. :) I really like the community.
Over the years the odd thing had pissed me off over at Manjaro, but over all it has a great team & terrific community that really does make Arch available to those with little to no Linux experience. Well done to those involved over the years.
I left Manjaro (kept a drive to use on the odd occasion with it on it -> couldn't do an -Syu without trashing it badly - have a clonezilla backup :) ) & have been using OpenBSD on my main machine. It is set up very much like how my Artix is - Openbox, Worker, Tint2, & a few helpers like Udiskie (not on OpenBSD), an ALSA soundmixer/applet & the like for the WM front end.
My install of Artix is a stripped down LXQt install (should have done a base build). Artix installed & worked on my difficult for distros notebook, first go, wireless & all. :D I've customised it dramatically (still at it, slowly now) to be the way I like.
If Artix is reliable & continues to become more polished (as it certainly has been doing since I've been using it) then it could end up as my main system on my other computer in the future. :)
I'll see what the coming months bring - here's hoping - its looking very good. 8)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: mandog on 04 November 2017, 12:37:55
Hi handy You are more than welcome at Artix, but remember it is a very young distribution, I'm glad you had no problems with installation shows your years of experience.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: handy on 04 November 2017, 13:14:27
Hi mandog, thanks. ;)
I was just lucky I think, you know how it is with Linux/BSD (& such) your hardware can make it easy, or all the way to impossible (sometimes).
Re. Artix being so young - that's one of the reasons that I waited for a while before giving it a try.
Remember that line that Steve McQueen had in the Magnificent Seven?
Steve said:- 'There was this fellow who jumped off of a tall building, as he fell, the people standing at the windows on each floor heard him say as he went past - "So far, so good" ' ;)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: fungalnet on 04 November 2017, 13:24:42
@Handy When you say Manjaro, you mean without OpenRC, right? I'm running openbox as well, have you tried obmenu-generator? It makes bars, and panels useless, and it takes a few bytes to run it. Welcome
About the Manjaro forum the words that came to mind were from a P.Newman movie, "cool hand Luke". "what we have here is a failure to communicate"
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: handy on 04 November 2017, 13:41:43
Hi fungalnet, I used Manjaro sans OpenRC most of the ~6 years I've used it. I don't think that Artoo was there for 3 years (but I could be wrong) & it took a bit before I switched over to OpenRC, which treated me well until it didn't.
My systems are always very customised to suit myself. Everynow & then that does play a part in troublesome experiences... :)
Re. the automatic menu generators: I have no use for them. I like to have only what I want in my Ob menu, & exactly where I want it to be. The menu generators create a crowd of mostly useless stuff for "me". Personal preference & all that. ;)
I've been setting my machines up in much the same way since my very early days in Arch - mid 2008. It is how I like to interface with IT.
Re: The cool hand Luke statement: There has been that problem on the odd occasion over there, with regard to the management. Though I do understand that when you have a very busy life, time is precious & you need to prioritise. Though it can cause colateral damage amongst a community... I really don't want to talk about that stuff, as I don't think it does anyone any good. ;) I'd much rather talk about Artix. 8)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: xen on 31 October 2022, 22:15:05
Hello! Long time linux user here, probably close to 20 years now.
Been using the runit and dinit versions after trying the openrc. Have to say really impressed with runit and dinit. Easy to write scripts, not some crazy 50-100 lines of bash like with sysvinit/openrc.
So after tinkering a bit with Artix, its really impressed me. Switched from Arch, not going back!
Thank you Artix devs for making the arch without systemd!
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: cat herders of linux on 04 November 2022, 18:55:08
what a walk down memory lane
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Hobbes on 11 November 2022, 15:29:37
Hi everyone,
New in Artix (and also in Linux). This summer I left Windows tired of their telemetry, ads, and bad performance (my laptop has 6 years old, and becomes almost unusable with Windows). So I first tried Debian and after several weeks changed to Artix (mainly because lack of support for my hardware and the philosphy behind systemd).
For now, I’m happy with Artix… great distribution.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: tintin on 12 November 2022, 07:01:13
New in Artix (and also in Linux). This summer I left Windows tired of their telemetry, ads, and bad performance (my laptop has 6 years old, and becomes almost unusable with Windows). So I first tried Debian and after several weeks changed to Artix (mainly because lack of support for my hardware and the philosphy behind systemd).
For now, I’m happy with Artix… great distribution.
Awesomesauce!
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: jahway603 on 12 December 2022, 03:05:04
New to this forum, but been using Artix on one of my systems for over a year now. I enjoy Arch-based Linux distros and been enjoying Artix a lot. I have not tried Artix on a server yet, but wondering what other users experiences are with that.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: lexcastle on 21 June 2023, 09:18:37
Hello, Everyone. I am brand new to linux. You seemed like the coolest kids on the block so I've decided to join your lot. Still deciding on a desktop environment I like but Artix is beautiful so far. Running like a champ. Current preference is KDE>Cinn>Mate>others. Been test driving. I'll probably have a ton of questions I'll ask after a few search attempts. Looking forward to getting to know everyone.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: corysanin on 21 June 2023, 19:57:25
You might want to check out the "show your screenshots" (https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8.105.html) thread, if you haven't already.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: dmetsys on 06 September 2023, 18:05:43
Hi there,
Back to try Artix for the second time on a quest to gain a meaningful comprehension of the init function in Linux & get away from sudo, I'm still a wee bit wet around the ears without sysd so time will tell how this attempt fares.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: tintin on 07 September 2023, 05:58:11
Back to try Artix for the second time on a quest to gain a meaningful comprehension of the init function in Linux & ...
I have used OpenRC and XFCE without problems since 2018 on different PCs. You should regularly read the recent news here and on https://artixlinux.org/
An overview of my classic but practical desktop : https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8.msg21454.html#msg21454
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: freshdolphin8827 on 15 September 2023, 15:03:19
hello to the artix community
I'm a long time Linux veteran of 23 + years going all of the way back to when RHEL was Still known as Red Hat Linux and I hadn't heard of Arch. In those days I would distro hop between early Ubuntu and Debian.
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: Hitman on 16 September 2023, 15:10:07
Hi, but only one little thing, early Ubuntu was 18 years ago, and early Arch was 20, you must have refered to Slackware or the like :)
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: cat herders of linux on 17 September 2023, 04:47:33
Mandriva was def a thing 20+ yrs ago?
Title: Re: Introduce Your Self Say Hello
Post by: tintin on 17 September 2023, 06:47:58
I'm a long time Linux veteran of 23 + years going all of the way back to when RHEL was Still known as Red Hat Linux and I hadn't heard of Arch. In those days I would distro hop between early Ubuntu and Debian.
Ubuntu is 20 years old already? ech.
I remember the first time I PURCHASED linux was from Wallnut Creek, Slackware 3.1 I liked it.