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Android 14 has the option to present itself (the phone) to a computer as a USB webcam. Very handy and does not require any special software on the PC.

It’s fast, but you are only installing base, linux and grub.

base-devel should also be there, since it’s assumed to be installed by any PKGBUILD you’d want to build with makepkg.

But yes. It does what it said it would do: Install a basic, minimal Arch system in just over a minute.

I wouldn’t call compiling from source the average experience these days.

Most software is gonna be in the distro repositories or as a flatpak/snap/appimage.

Calling them “Top Apps” does not indicate new apps.

I find a lot of such lists useless in any case, since it really depends on your needs.

Omitting grub and using systemd-boot might also take a few seconds off.

It is both.

Home Assistant created an OS for appliance like installations.

But there is also the docker images, repo packages (I know Arch Linux has it in the repo) and pip based packages too.

As far as I understand it, TTFs are more basic, while OTF can have more features and glyphs.

I will say that a second-hand ThinkPad is a great option. They can be real cheap, but you can also get a pretty decent new one for your budget.

You can likely find great T480-T495 that fits your needs really well.

I can’t see the benefit of fancy terminal emulators. I use plain old Konsole (mostly on Plasma) and as long as it has good history search and multiple tabs, I’m good.

Already in the AUR as otf-suse and ttf-suse. :)