After a night of hard work, got arch dual booted on my Mac :) now time to learn it

Next task: get wireless working :'(

looking forward to how it goes

Guide to learning it
Step One: Push power button

There's a head start ;)

IMO: Adding a DE like LXDE will help you alot to start with. Gui for managing the usual stuff like Wifi(WLAN), LAN etc.

Then when you got that running i would recommend you to start learning doing the stuff your gui does but in the cli.

Starting up with just a cli is cruel. If you have to do that you could atleast use i3 or something.

@Flarp this looks very helpful! Thanks :) I'm running into driver issues now though.. Think I've got a bit of work before I get wifi going :(

What's your thinking behind this?

Why not? I also want to try out arch Linux with the intent of building a computer in the next year, which I plan to dual boot with Windows :)

I run arch with Windows dual. On arch I have awesome tiler and Plasma KDE, i learned how to manage AUR packages but now use yaourt.

The docs are life.

@FuzzyMyztiq the dogs have been amazing so far.. But unfortunately not helpful for my driver issue.. Do you like KDE? I tried cinnamon in a vm.. It was cool.. I need to try out the different DEs after I figure out my WiFi

I had some problems with wireless on my arch install too. For the driver, try "iw" and then "rfkill" "IP link" and "wpa_supplicant". Those were the main commands I had to try to get my wireless card working

@Flarp update, I guess my driver had no issues, got connected with the guide, thanks!