I don’t really understand either. Where are the Gentoo and LFS elitists? It seams like there should be more of those than arch elitests. Maybe it’s just because more people use arch.

Thanks for telling me about that. I will now use that for any ancient laptop restorations.

That’s great to hear another linux success story!

Just a handy tip if you haven’t already your laptop might sound like it’s about to take off because it hasn’t been cleaned in a while. Just search up a tutorial on YouTube for your laptop and be amazed at how much dust you will find clogging up your fan.

Also yeah that terminal thing is just arch and hyprland you really through yourself in the deep end there (I personally havnt used arch before). Linux mint on the other hand is super easy to use and the terminal is only there if you chose to use it.

I am definitely a fan. A lot of people say that flatpaks are bad because of sandboxing but I haven’t seemed to have any issues with it.

Although I do try to use dnf when a dnf package is available (I use fedora)

Installing flatpaks via the terminal is so much faster for some reason, so I always do it that way.

Yes it is true. Flatpak is for gui apps only, at least as far as I know.