Just look at their principles.

Same, my desktop PC had Arch installed in 2012 lol

Arch is definitely not “an experimental distro”. It doesn’t just break, and all the software in their repos is considered stable.

If you have been using Arch for any meaningful amount of time, the massive output from OPs upgrade should be glaring.

The whole point of the update is to avoid the silly Windows-like mentality of flatpack. It splits the package up so you can choose what you want instead of installing a bunch of crap you won’t ever use. If OP had been awake while doing a full upgrade on his bleeding edge system, he would have noticed.

Yeah I can’t believe he’s been using Arch for 5 years and didn’t even bat an eye over the massive pacman output

If you need a daemon (to always run in the background, like on a server), use Deluge or Transmission.

If you just need a basic client that can live in your systray, qBittorrent.

I agree. My .zshrc is littered with functions. Most useful ones are my pack and extract I made ~10 years ago, they just recognize file extension and use the correct tool.

I will say I had a lot of trouble with Bluetooth (bluez) on Linux, but I think it mainly comes down to the implementation. I have a cheap dongle and pairing gamepads has been a nightmare sometimes.