I tried ventoy with mbr then ventoy with gpt then balenaetcher and Rufus with gpt and then finally a windows usb through the media creation tool. None of them worked. It's fine with my old laptop but since it was a legacy boot I am not so sure.
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I would usually go with archwiki to learn most things and then follow distrotube or learnlinuxtv for video and new things.
It can convert to other formats but it requires extra dependencies for it to fully work
It works fine just the text would not be in the same format but the text should be fine
Have you tried pandoc ?
In college right now 2yr computer science, anything Microsoft is a pain to work offline. I miss the onedrive sync in windows i just use syncthing for that now .
I use onlyoffice since it has one of the best Microsoft office compatibility though I submit my obsidian export as a pdf for my assignments or records.
If you really need ms office or for group projects and you have an o365 account, just use the web version for it.
There is blendOS which is an arch based immutable distro similar to Vanilla OS with different DE options
But would you need flatpak and snap with aur
Flatpak and snap don't use system theme unless you tell it.
https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-app-apply-theme/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/change-snap-app-theme/amp
First are you using the latest arch iso then get that then check if there are updates for archinstall and is windows fully shutdown i.e do you have fast startup enabled or not if so disable it .
Have you tried distrobox ? That would sound more reasonable.
I tried that as well the thing is the usb does not show up in the menu