[the_commentary]

To be honest Arch as a distro is more for advanced users -- if you're trying to dip your toes into linux the quintessential starting point is probably Ubuntu or ElementaryOS (linux mint is also pretty good). Arch's philosophy is very much to give you the bare minimum and then you can get what you need to stack on top of it, which often involves a bit of config tweaking. This might get frustrating if you aren't fairly intimate with working with a linux command line environment.