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Welcome @Robert-59 nice to meet you.

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Thank you I hope to learn a lot from all of you.

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Almost every week I learn something new here or a new or more efficient way of doing something. If you stick around I’m sure you will also. :handshake:

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Hi
I’m a Finnish bus driver and I tried to install Arch Linux.
It didn’t work.

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Hi, @Edith :smiley:
Welcome to our community!

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I am not an Arch Linux user, but the initial steps for Linux are essentially common.

  • Did you successfully download an “Live ISO image” for Arch Linux?

  • Did you successfully copy that onto a DVD or USB key?

  • Did you successfully tell you BIOS/UEFI to choose that device for boot priority?

  • Did the Live session come up with a GUI where you can open a Terminal session with access to the command line?
    (This is critical, because success at this point tells us that the chosen distro’s Live environment can fully recognize your critical core hardware. If this step fails, then there is a need to use completely different strategies to analyze the problem.)

  • If so, please share with the Community the report of the following commands, so that they can fully understand your hardware context:

sudo inxi -Fxxx

sudo lspci

sudo lsusb

After studying those details, the Arch adepts will have a better understanding of how best to guide your next steps at troubleshooting and installation.

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Linux Mint 22.3 installer fails to create root partition on B85 desktop
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@Crabby Welcome aboard!

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A post was split to a new topic: Linux Mint 22.3 installer fails to create root partition on B85 desktop

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I’m rather new to linux. Still learning the ins and outs. I use Zorin.

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Welcome to the forums. Zorin is pretty solid. I like how many desktop environments / layouts are offered.

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@DPBradley Welcome to our forum! @hydn and any of us are glad to see you here and we’re also glad to help familiarize you with any of the activities we have here, so feel free to look around, contribute whenever you want, and ask questions if necessary. Participation is welcome and encouraged!

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Networking professional, mainly support. Moving from Solaris to Linux environment for work, learning the subtleties and how to perform the same commands with different syntax.

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Great to have you join us! :handshake:

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retired Windows-server / sysadmin

I’m old, I’m tired I have come to learn things, break some things and maybe fix some things who knows,; Hello

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Welcome to our community @Shiverth Checkout some of the popular threads. Looking forward to hearing more about your setup and interests.

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Hello, I am Craig Rhombs, moving over the the Mate community. I am retired, and I support a small number of Ubuntu-Mate (24.04) instances used by three people.

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Hi, @astrogenealogist :handshake:
Welcome to the community!

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I have worked as a business development manger/director since 2006. Provided data science services using Jupyter notebook. Dabbled in Ubuntu but never got serious until now. Would like to make Linux my daily driver and cut the windows cord to just absolute necessities. Not sure if I want to go with Ubuntu or another flavor. Open to suggestions.

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Hi @astrogenealogist and @carltimson nice to have you join us. :handshake:

You are welcome to look around the forums hot topics and browse/search the blog.

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Welcome to the Community, Carl! You will find that we are a welcoming and helpful bunch!

About Ubuntu, a an UbuntuMATE user, I need to advise you that the Linux landscape is starting to be formed/manipulated by

  • those who have the view of keeping various applications truly portable (and pain free, depending on your perspective) by adhering to a strict Debian-package only approach,      

AND

  • those who have the view of gradually expanding the number of Applications that are deemed “deserving” or “critical” enough to recommend/dictate the need for using an encaspulation method that isolate those Applications from the overall system that they are hosted on, by using the likes of
            - Snap,
            - FlatPack,
            - AppImage,       or
            - LXC/LXD
    at the end-User Desktop, not just on servers!

Individuals seem to develop strong opinions regarding such use on the personal Desktop, so it is strongly recommended that you look into that “discussion”, to decide for yourself, which “camp” feels like the better “home” for your leanings and tendencies.

I will inform you that, while many (most) UbuntuMATE users would never walk away from Ubuntu, unless forced to, the fact that Canonical has adopted a pro-Snap stance … for some “core” aspects of Ubuntu and a subset of applications deemed “critical” … has simply implied that, again, many such as myself, will undo the snap-based installation and apply some “documented recipes” to revert those Applications to Debian-based package installation instead.

To help you with that soul-searching assessment, I recommend that you review the following discussions:

I am of the opinion that you need to take some time to make an informed decision, which might conceivably lead you to a different choice for Distro, if your opinions are strong enough.

:slight_smile:

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