If you're willing to learn, then definitely. When doing it for the first time, you should be prepared to take your time and go through the installation guide paragraph for paragraph to make sure you're not skipping some obscure, yet important step.

Also, since there are a lot of standard steps involved, I recommend that you document what you're doing, either as a plain text file of notes, or as some sort of configuration management playbook/recipe/template. I started doing that two years ago and it really took the pain out of bringing up new Arch systems, or reinstalling existing ones: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration