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there are 400 bajilion how tos on how to install Linux. If you aren't going to do it then you arent going to do it, enjoy your corporate mandated spyware. I think it was Ben Frankin who said “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little new user ease of use, deserve neither Liberty nor ease of use” or something like that
I've tried to install Arch on my spare Dell laptop a week or two ago, and failed spectacularly twice in quick succession. I was using the arch wiki, assisted by GPT4 on things that were not clear to me. Just kept running into issue after issue after issue until five hours later I gave up.
I'll try again when I have the time.
Most people start off with something a bit easier - Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu. There's no reason to jump straight into Arch.