Dipping my toe into the water

[Qqmike]

Well, I stated my opinion on aspects of this subject in Post #32.
Apart from that, I see no forum at Arch that even remotely resembles a social, opinion-place, or casual hangout.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/
And further apart from my Post #32 (my opinions galore there), there's another aspect of this: The people at Arch do have the right (if it is so assumed or postulated) to make any rules they wish. Perhaps it is just simply a place to ask and to answer questions that are strictly technical and that strictly apply to the categories in their subforums. Nothing wrong with that. Games people play, ya know. But by KFN culture, it sure ain't very friendly over there! For me, Post #58 by Rog131 is enough for me, tells me what I would ever want to know about how to get into Arch--and I feel no need (at this time) to actually instantiate Post #58 by my own personal example. But this is an interesting thread.

[GreyGeek]

While I didn't have any problem installing Arch under VB with a fully working Plasma5 DE, I found the help at their forum to be just as you experienced it. I deleted my guest Arch because I found after a month of testing it that I didn't like Plasma5. But, if I had liked Plasma5 the attitude at Arch's forum would have been enough to cause me to search elsewhere.

[claydoh]

Well, as much as I despise it, they are quite clear about things:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62345

Some of this is, yes, doing things the Arch Way, but much of it is also unfortunately a side effect of a large forum.

[GreyGeek]

Wow! A simily face after being told to F*** O**

[Snowhog]

As claydoh points out, Forum etiquette is very clearly spelled out in their Forum Rules. Unfortunately, like me, many coming to the Arch Forums likely don't actually read the rules. That said, I do understand that their forum is their forum, and they, like us, are entitled to run it their way. One can't have a thin skin and survive long in their forums, thinks I.

I've only had experience with three Linux forums: Ubuntu Forums, Kubuntu Forums, and now, Arch Forums. In terms of both friendliness and community feel, ours is still definitely at the top of the list.

[woodsmoke]

LOL I ran into somewhat the same thing at the old XMMS dev forum. Wasn't really told to go put my head in the sand but rather like Detective Friday it was "just the facts ma'm" and they didn't even want THOSE unless the were at least a 4 on the Richter Scale!

But............they did keep XMMS going!

woodwasappreciative

[jpenguin]

I just installed Apricity Cinnamon on a spare HDD. The installer doesn't support BTRFS

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[NickStone]

For those who would like to use Arch but cannot get to grips with the Arch way of installing the OS, try Architect it's a live installer that helps you to install Arch in a simple menu driven way.

[NickStone]

Because SteveRiley has ventured over to Arch Linux, ...

Whilst browsing the Arch forums, I discovered that Steve Riley had actually been using Arch since at least 2010.

Just search Steve Riley in the search box at the Arch Forums. https://bbs.archlinux.org

[GreyGeek]

Searching "Riley" in all forums got four listings, none of which contained posts by Steve, except one which had 25 pages. I didn't want to waste time browsing through 25 pages.
Searched all forums for both author, subject and text for "Steve Riley" and "Riley". No hits
What to post some examples?

P.S.- Their search function stinks. The more searches you do the more time they force you to wait between searches. Set still for 60 seconds just to do another search. That's telling me that they don't want to be bothered.

[Snowhog]

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php...&user_id=44362

On the page NickStone provided, in the Username box I typed SteveRiley. That resulted in:

User list

steveriley	Member	8	2010-11-27

Pages: 1


Clicking on steveriley brings up https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=44362

[GreyGeek]

... On the page NickStone provided, in the Username box I typed SteveRiley. That resulted in:
....

Ah, that explains it. I entered "Steve Riley", then "Riley", not "SteveRiley".

[jpenguin]

For those who would like to use Arch but cannot get to grips with the Arch way of installing the OS, try Architect it's a live installer that helps you to install Arch in a simple menu driven way.

The lead developer for the architect Linux recently had an argument with someone, I think it might have been a manjaro developer. He took the architect installer down for a while because of that. I went to download it some time ago, but ended up downloading Apricity instead

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