This is a duplicate command to increase my chance of getting a late reply :) Hope that's fine.
When I read comments like yours "Arch is a minefield" "With Arch it is so easy to shoot yourself in the foot", I never know what this could be specifically. How could this look like? Can you give me something more concrete? I'm really eager to know what everyone is talking about.
Imagine me: I'd consider myself a Linux noob, although I probably aren't anymore. I use Arch Linux for about 3 years now as my daily driver. I'm not young anymore - I didn't grew up with computers - I don't have it in my blood. I don't have formal education in anything computer and have never worked in the field. During Covid I learnt Linux from the Arch wiki. Now I'm using it. I configured some things and can control my computer through the command line.
Everytime I read comments like yours, I get the shivers. Did I miss something integral? What do I not know about? Especially network stuff is a blind spot for me. I didn't touch network stuff beyond the default wiki pages.
Not really, sometimes it forces me to apply updates on shutdown/restart, even though I don't want to do it. None of the registry hacks seems to be able to disable this behavior. I've heard some people talking about a special distribution/version of Windows where you can disable this, but don't really feel like re-installing the entire OS just so when I boot into/away from Windows I don't get forced to wait for the slow update twice (one now, another in the future when I boot Windows next time).
All because Ableton cannot be bothered to support Linux :/ I understand that though, just sucks...