I'm thankful that my kids fly well, and always have. We flew with them at ~15 months with no issues.
I've always heard the complaints about screaming infants and whatnot...but I've never seen it. Granted, I don't fly too often (and less so more recently), but I've never had the "classic" kid crying through the entire flight. It just doesn't happen as often as people think. I'm sure when it does happen that it's pretty f'n annoying, though.
Cursory Google searches will give you driver downloads. Dell/HP can give you a pre-bundled package of drivers.
Unless you've got some very unique hardware (or very old), it just isn't that difficult to figure out.
I'm all for using Linux, and I'm considering moving my desktop over from Win 10, but I've never had any issues with the install of Windows. If it's any level of modern hardware, it should mostly work out of the box.
These kinds of rants really trip my BS detector, because it's just not that complicated. If you can handle Linux but can't manage to even install Windows, I have a lot of questions.
I have a pair of Sony WH-1000MX4 over the ear headphones, and I just got some Shokz OpenRun bone conduction headphones. They're both great. I put some thicker pads on the Sonys, and they're very comfortable. The Shokz are mainly for when I'm biking or need to take a call while driving (they don't interfere with my helmet, and they leave my ears open). I also can't use earbuds, they just don't stay and they're not comfortable.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
I'm iffy about giving more days to Google, but I use their VPN when I'm on any kind of questionable WiFi. I'd rather give the data to Google than to whatever random place is getting it from my hotels or whatever.
I also have a VPN server setup at home, but generally routing everything through home is too slow (for now, I might be getting significantly increased upload speed soon).