Nowadays you can send commands to your pc if you use KDE Connect, "systemctl shutdown" works wonders

It's mostly the installation and initial setup that's a pain on arch, so definitely not a beginner distro, but very good nonetheless

Why do you have to wait a week to use the bootloader?

Its a software limitation, you can't unlock the bootloader immediately. After a week you probably have stuff on the device so you might not want to unlock it anymore

Or it might be a security thing so retailers can't unlock stuff they sell so easily and put their own software on it

I don't know either but I think they're probably islands but just don't reach the surface

Yeah that's totally true and worth a bit extra for me too

Yeah I suppose that's not too expensive, although it feels like a waste when I'm not using all the services provided

I'm pretty much in the same boat, you think it's worth subscribing only for the vpn and email?

I don't think you can have thousands of actual friends

We can also emulate windows on android and WSL obviously on windows.

So we can use Linux to emulate Android, which in turn emulates windows to run WSL

Man, snake faces look so stupid and cute

There are dozens of us

That said, purchasing a good screen that happens to have 2K or anything higher than 1080 is no big deal, just set your resolution to whatever you want from software and be done with it.

That's awful advise, a 1440p monitor running at 1080p will look like a blurry mess