I forget there are linux-friendly laptops nowadays.

If you want to disable Intel Management Engine, the always-on backdoor built into every Intel CPU and/or want as much software as possible on your machine to be FOSS

Also it boots much faster than most stock bios.

It’s an open source bios. There are only builds for a certain few laptops and it involves opening it up and flashing the bios chip

You forgot “Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad” on tech paranoid

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is “fun”. Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don’t enable the testing repo.

Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.

This is awesome. If only my upload speed wasn’t trash.