It might be enough today, but a MacBook is expected to last a decade. These might have a few good years at best

If you already have arch installed, don’t worry about how hard it is to install. All done! You can also run the cachyos kennel in arch if you want

It was in his reaction video to LTT trying it Linux again

No, Arch for laptops/desktops. Debian for servers.

A fellow linux unplugged listener? Just guessing because I see TUI challenge in your config :)