Before going "bare-metal" I suggest many of you that are new to Linux install a distro in a Virtual Machine like VirtualBox and play with it a little first before you go formatting your drives with a fresh install of your selected distro or before you burn a LiveUSB.
And remember, if you use Arch (I recommend you stay away from Arch and highly recommend you stay away from Gentoo until you become more familiar with the Linux system) you have to let everyone know with "I use Arch btw".
Before going "bare-metal" I suggest many of you that are new to Linux install a distro in a Virtual Machine like VirtualBox and play with it a little first before you go formatting your drives with a fresh install of your selected distro or before you burn a LiveUSB.
And remember, if you use Arch (I recommend you stay away from Arch and highly recommend you stay away from Gentoo until you become more familiar with the Linux system) you have to let everyone know with "I use Arch btw".