Thx 🤣

I'm too dumb for that.

First, I doubt that you're dumb. Second, Arch isn't this super hardcore and difficult distro like the memes make it out to be. The only difficult part is the manual installation which isn't even required anymore. Arch comes with an install script now. endeavourOS and CachyOS is Arch with an easy installer. It's easier to install than Windows. I'm not telling you to switch. I just wanted to say it's not difficult.

Try EndeavourOS, it gets you into the Arch package manager environment but gives you an easy way to install and chooses a sane set of default packages.

Installing and figuring out what specific things you want to install are usually the biggest hurdles for Arch

Arch is fairly easy in my experience to install. I did install in manually once and that took a while but wasn’t difficult.

Since then I’ve just connected to WiFi then just run the arch install script which is prepackaged in the ISO now.

Actually using it has had minimal issues except for the time I didn’t use the machine it was on for a few months and couldn’t get it to update because the signing keys for stuff was out of date. That and an issue with running out of memory when trying to compile a browser from the AUR (I just installed it through flatpack instead).

I’ve got Ubuntu on my desktop to run my audiobook shelf

that's why it has the ubuntu bg

What motivated your change?

My laptop finally died on me. [...] I’ve got Ubuntu on my desktop

No. What motivated the change? Your laptop dying was correlative and not causative.