Iirc, Microsoft themselves were advocating the method I mentioned when users were having issues (I can’t recall where I read that though)

Bingo. I haven’t had a windows install mess up my bootloader in a while, granted I haven’t booted my windows partition in a while either. As long as you create a separate partition for the bootloader, it’s stupid easy to fix with a liveusb.

Or, punch this into powershell:

irm https://get.activated.win | iex

https://massgrave.dev

That, and half of the system is designed to discard people that are no long useful for the machine, unless of course they’re wealthy or have a wealthy benefactor.

True, but nothing beats out active parenting and communication. Like has been said, you can set up filters all day long (and you should), but the second the kid learns how to install a distro from scratch, they’ll soon have unfettered access the the entire Internet. The only sensible approach is to talk with them about what’s out there, the dangers of it, and how to navigate the internet safely. Also too, browse with them. Spend time with them guiding them on the wonderful parts of the internet, and help them develope good habits on being a good netzien. Eventually they’ll find the seedy parts of the internet, but hopefully by then they’ll be less interested in it because it isn’t taboo, it’s just wrong.

I think you may be mistaking what I meant? Wayland is a display server protocol, like Xorg, which is independent of the Arch base system. Depending on your hardware, kernel level support may be available and installed, while your display server software may be the component having problems and not the kernel or other system configurations. Just an idea to poke at, some setups and hardware support can break at different points based on the way you’ve set up your system with associated packages/dependencies.

Are you running Wayland on your Arch setup? There could be an extra layer of compatibility issue there as opposed to X11.

I’m partial to terminator

Lenovo supports Linux directly. You can buy it with Ubuntu preloaded, and they also give instructions for you on their website.

I have a Carbon X1 10th gen, and it is a beast. 32gb ram, and I swapped in a 2tb SSD. Running Arch on it and it’s pretty flawless.

Which circuit maker?

See that’s the issue I can see with it. Sure it does local processing for my own stuff, but I’d be miffed if they’re uploading everything to their servers, effectively using my system resources to build out their AI capabilities. Granted, this would be how they make their money (if something is free then you’re the product), so it’s kind of a tricky balance.

Iirc, Unifi gear does captive portals, but good points all around.

I typically leave my DNS config to my router and PiHole. I run a VPN server to my home network so I have the same setup no matter where I am. I’ll agree, it used to be that /etc/resolv.conf was the go to, but systemd had been interesting to say the least.

I also found this if it helps you any.