Arch is a do it yourself distro, which includes some maintenance - all of which is explained in the wiki during the installation process and mostly comes down to checking the news for required manual actions and looking through pacdiffs. if you skipped that part of required reading, arch might just not

which is fair enough and why I am on Debian (LMDE), all I really want to do is click an icon on the dock and use the program. Hell, I barely do that these days with apps starting using StartUp