What I did, had a laptop that was getting really slow and said it didn't meet the prereqs for win11, so said fuck it and installed arch and started learning linux. Thing zooms now, easily doubled the lifespan of the laptop. Only complicated bit was the switching between nvidua dGPU and iGPU, but I don't game on it much anyway
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Why Arch Linux?
One significant pro is the AUR.
Mainly wanted to challenge myself to learn linux, the laptop wasn't my main driver, mainly just use it for prepping d&d sessions and some light gaming, so it wasn't a huge loss if I accidentally fucked it by doing something wrong.
The AUR is definitely a plus, and the community support is top notch. I've since swapped my main desktop to Garuda Arch and no real complaints with it for gaming other than stupid drm on MMOs. Only real gap for me is that libre/open office don't work 100% well with Microsoft office.
I replaced all my windows with doors and now I come as I please
Why can't you come out of your windows?
The court order said I had to stop doing that.
Come as you are.