bustrpoindextr

pacman in my opinion is the easiest package manager ive used but even so if it is that difficult then they can use a GUI package manager that would come pre installed on most GUI arch based distros

Recognizing that's your opinion, in my opinion it's the hardest I've used. The commands are all flags, so you have to remember letters instead of "install" or "upgrade" if you want to use any packages outside of the like 4 in the official repos, you have to enable AUR, which is effectively just installing from source from some random person's GitHub repo, in which any number of things can go wrong. I mean, there's a reason there exist a bunch of different wrappers for pacman.

I just blame alsamixer for that. There was a solid 6 months that I had to completely uninstall and then reinstall alsamixer on my Lenovo every reboot so I could have sound

You might have some GUI nonsense happen, but for the most part you'll be okay. I have exclusively used i3 for my Linux stuff over the past few years and have only run into a few problems with misc apps

Then you deal with the fact that zoom is a dumpster fire for those clients

Zoom is an absolute dumpster fire of an application, but that's your solution. Don't use zoom.

Seriously though, Google meet, Microsoft teams, discord, all work great. Zoom just barely functions and I don't get why people want to use it.

No love for folder.bak?