Haha, zypper up is a nice one, didn't know that.
Pacman gets huge bonus points though for having a config option to turn to progress bar shown during package installation into a 'pacman' (letter c) chomping from left to right :)
(done by adding ILoveCandy under the Misc options in /etc/pacman.conf)
You find Zypper a better name than Pacman?
I'm using a second hand Surface 6 Pro (bought for €300 or so incl. keyboard cover), now running Arch (with linux-surface kernel) with KDE.
Everything works great! :) Doubles as a handy little vacation laptop too, and makes me want a touchscreen on my next laptop!
Please feel free to ask ahead if you have any questions about experiences or whatnot.
I don't know if this fits your use case (you didn't describe what you want to achieve in detail), but commands that can possible help if the screen did lock (or turn off):
loginctl unlock-screenkscreen-doctor --dpms on