bryankam, Finally got a decent laptop, an AMD one for the first time in probably decades. Lenovo, Ryzen 7.
I'm dual-booting Windows 11 and Arch Linux, again for the first time in decades. Seems to be working well. Less of a hassle than I thought.
Yumi helped get multiple ISOs on one drive. In this case an SD card. I dunno why I used USB sticks for years when I could have used a USB card reader and microSD cards.
EFI is not as much of a nightmare as I feared, works quite well