They were just pointing out that saying “my PC my rules” is pretty funny when you advocate for closed source software on it. Your PC their rules.

Obviously it was tongue in cheek so chill.

Used to have Slackware as a daily driver in 2005ish, will arch be similar or more difficult?

This reminds me of a site called hackerslab back in the 2000s. I think you had to ssh in to some Korean server and try to get the password for the next level.