Out of the box typically means "with no effort after initial install". I'm sure you did a pacman -S gnome or something like that after the initial install. Tha

Out of the box typically means "with no effort after initial install". I'm sure you did a pacman -S gnome or something like that after the initial install. That said, Arch does have very sane defaults, so I'm sure after using pacman to install your DE or graphics drivers, it worked fine.