First off, Welcome to Linux! Second of all, don't be intimidated. It takes a little while to get used to linux and learn some of the commands that'd you'd use most often. Now, I promise, most people that use linux barely even know 1/32th of the commands that are involved with linux.. Including myself. I still learn new commands each and every day and I've been switching between linux distros for 10 years now.. and I'm only 23..

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Now, for Arch.. Yes, it's not your typical plug in the USB and click install type distro. Arch linux was designed with full and total user customization in mind. There is a lot to Arch, but you don't need to know it all. I recommend to take a few days and read up on the arch wiki - https://wiki.archlinux.org/

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You can use this guide I created as a beginner friendly template of installing arch, but refer to the arch wiki linked above for anything that you may not understand completely. - https://pastebin.com/bTHNedAY

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Again, don't feel intimidated. Once you do it one time, it almost becomes natural. Don't feel discouraged if you mess up, just reformat and restart.. I'd even recommend doing a couple front to back installs of Arch in a virtual machine first so you don't brick up your machine the first go around of doing it. Like I said, I've been using linux for 10 years, literally since I was 13 and just switched to Arch full-time this year.

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I use Arch Linux daily, so if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to post back or message me personally. I probably can't help much tonight as it's 3AM for me at the time of posting, but I'm usually around on the linux subreddits helping out.

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Cheers, and again! Welcome!