Why are you even running arch at that point, for the DE updates?
Shareni
Try googling something like "how to make a VPN server"
Human communication 101: sometimes humans ask a question without expecting an answer, it's called a rhetorical question
Much simpler method, especially for smaller scale:
Take a french press, put avb in, replace water for a few days when it gets dirty. When it stays clear you're done curing it, press the water out, and start cooking.
Most mainstream OSes have GUI for anything you'd need to do as a novice.
And how is Linux any different?
I've literally had a non-technical person who used Linux for less than a week fix an issue through the xfce gui while I was googling a solution.
You just need to choose a correct distro and DE for the job.
More like a restaurant that has Korean BBQ / hot pot on the menu. Most meals are completely prepared, but for some you need to do a small part yourself.
Gotta mask that ABV taste to make it bearable on the way down!
Or water cure it for a couple of day to remove that taste. Water cured avb extracted in coconut oil has a really nice gentle weed taste.
I get that for sure, but you can still use it only for specific tasks like org-mode LaTeX. It was literally made by some astronomer/astrophysicist to make writing LaTeX easier.
Come to the evil side, we have org-mode
vim user
LaTeX user
When you go to the wrong side
I initially tried guix -> switched to nix with home-manager because it's got a lot better repos -> installed all user packages through nix on Debian -> nixos
Before nixos I used flatpaks for some packages because nixgl seems abandoned.