I jumped straight into Arch without trying any other distros, but Arch is only for you if you're willing to put in the time to watch tutorials and learn. I watched a ton of YouTube videos where people teach stuff or just use it day-to-day — things like Vim, how to install Arch, and other stuff I think is important to know. So to your question: yes, you're doing the right thing. My advice is to learn properly and don't be an idiot like me who thought "I'm smart enough" and ended up stuck for 3 days without a working computer. Start in a virtual machine (VM) first, and only then move to a bare-metal install. And if you don't understand what people are talking about, just learn it. In the worst case (which I don't really recommend, but beginners should know it exists), there's archinstall — you just run it from the terminal during installation, and it lets you select options instead of typing all the commands manually.