rtp wrotehussam wroteI can talk 24/7 about Linux if you want geeky stuff but not many people are interested.
Am planning on installing Arch Linux for the first time [i've used ubuntu, mint etc... before], I was looking into installing MATE, but now am learning about "tiling window manager", does it replace MATE or I should install MATE first and the "tiling window manager" runs along side? It seems like i3 is the easiest one to start with, so what do you think ?
I started using Arch Linux in 2006. It's a nice distribution but be ready to recompile packages sometimes because they have the tendency to mark runtime dependencies as optional ones. But it is very customizable. I recompiled all the packages from source when gcc 5.3 was released. There is no performance difference from official archlinux packages but it is more of a habit and it is nice way become very comfortable with Linux.
I haven't tried Mate. I used KDE since the 2.x days then moved to gnome 2.x once KDE4 was out. Then back to KDE4 when Gnome3 was out. Now I am using Gnome3.20 for a while till KF5/plamsa5 is mature enough. I also used xfce in the 3.xx days.
Mate is a fork of gnome2 so it should be good enough.
There is a list of tiling window managers here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_tiling_window_managers
i3 is one of popular ones. If it is just a window manager (not taskbar, desktop renderer, etc...) then you may opt for full Desktop environment first (Mate, etc...).
Systemd is nice as a concept but it still has many bugs. I'm excited about the upcoming wayland switch. Nvidia just released wayland compatible drivers the other day which was complete surprise to me. but they use EGLStream instead of GBM so existing compositors (kwin, mutter, etc...) have to adjust to support nvidia under wayland.
Salloum wroteStart some threads with topics that interest you and see what happens! I'm not as knowledgeable as some of you due to my non-IT background but would love to read and try to participate.
I don't have a IT background either. I just like to read, experiment, and learn. I know less about hardware than many but I've used many operating systems starting with MS-DOS in the very early 90s. Linux is just better at pulling communities together because you get to interact over the internet with the people who write your programs. You can't do with Windows.
The only reason I have a computer is so I can tinker around with it haha.