That said, with the release of Linux From Scratch 13.0-rc1, I will return to my learnings. I had to abandon the previous attempt because it was hard to swap from my main pc in order to build packages. Much easier to do on a laptop

But arch is the best. Because configuration is transparent to the user. Because most packages have relatively few tinkerings from upstream. Because I don't have to wonder if there's some quirk in the os that's been abstracted away.

It is fine that people want simple. And for no-fuss linux, I thino something lile bazzite, mint, fedora, or openSUSE is just about there.

I struggle to push people towards mint because people tend to want new hardware, and so need a recent kernel. My arc gpu is an example

And once to move to the AUR nvidia driver whrn said company dropped support for the 1060 in my old laptop.

I have had to troubleshoot a few issues:

My new laptop has an issue with AMD's panel self-refresh. So I disabled it.

My desktop's Battlemage doesn't play nice with VRR, so I disabled it

I am not a programmer. I don't know java and I still struggle to fully understand a bash script.

But I didn't find it hard. This past year I have only had to manually intervene in an arch update:

Once when they split the firmware package into several

....

No joke, I've been thinking along these lines all of last year myself. Bring back RSS and simple html webpages. How hard can it be to grab a cheap old thrown-away windows 10 box, flash it with arch or somth. and buy a domain name?

I know this feeling well. Have condolences for hours burned trying to find the og artist

These are the kind of mocs we remember building as kids. Where any oddly-coloured block will do so long as it fits the bill