In that case I recommend you do a few things right away.
1. Get your /home organized. Mine looks like this:
├── bak
├── bin
├── conf
│ ├── pkgs
│ └── script
├── dev
│ ├── code
│ │ ├── asm
│ │ │ ├── crackmes
│ │ │ └── docs
│ │ ├── compiled
│ │ │ ├── c
│ │ │ │ ├── docs
│ │ │ └── lisp
│ │ │ └── docs
│ │ └── scripted
│ │ ├── perl
│ │ │ ├── docs
│ │ ├── php
│ │ │ ├── docs
│ │ │ └── shells
│ │ ├── py
│ │ │ └── docs
│ │ ├── ruby
│ │ │ ├── docs
│ │ │ └── learn
│ │ └── sh
│ │ └── docs
│ └── proj
├── lib
│ ├── books
│ ├── docs
│ ├── dox
│ ├── sites
│ └── txts
├── media
│ ├── img
│ ├── music
│ ├── screens
│ ├── torrent
│ └── vid
├── sec
│ ├── pcap
│ └── wordlist
├── src
└── tmp
Next, install a virtualization software(I use virtualbox). Then, perhaps install some useful cli and networking tools:
Networking/Diagnostics:
- dig
- nslookup
- host
- p0f
- hping
- fping
- netcat
- wireshark
- nmap
The most important thing is keeping organized and being very comfortable with your UI. Other than that it's a whole lotta trial and error to see what you like and don't like.
Oh, almost forgot. I recommend you check out mocp and midnight commander. Mocp is a command line music player and midnight commander is a command line file manager. They are both very fitting with Arch's simplistic behavior and with a little work you can get them to look quite sexy.