vox

pretty much everyone has at least a couple of old or throwaway numbers tho?
use one of those.
i have lik 5 numbers from 2 different countries rn

also you don't need a phone number for a google account? (i hav like 10 accounts i switch between in addition to my primary one with all the billing info, google cloud and stuff)

even has a flared base

also, nix :3

Windows is technically almost as secure though , since the confirmation prompt is displayed on a virtual desktop that even already elevated processes need extra privileges to access... still wont protect against someone else doing stuff on your computer tho

or just use fish shell

yk you can change that in the sudoers file tho right?
you can make it ask for the root user's password for elevation .... or even make it passwordless but that's a bad idea

uhm the entire kde and gnome app ecosystem?
some did get ported to Windows but its not the primary target and these ports usually have significant issues.

fortnite's kinda trying to pull off roblox tho, like their minigames are fullh scriptable in UE4

bt is not as good on linux (takes like 10 seconds to pick up my earbuds after i take them out vs up to 2 seconds on linux) but its still a major improvement. the new tiling seems pretty cool but eh didnt end up using it. virtual desktops and dual monitors work a lot better although switching desktops can break taskbar icons (and that bug still hasnt been fixed since release)

win11 is a major improvement tbh.
process scheduling doesnt suck as much as it used to and bluetooth has AAC support (win10 only has sbc which sounds bad)
defender is much harder to get rid of though (but you can still get rid of almost all online features and telemetry including ms accounts using group policies as long as you have Enterprise or a LTS version)

the only reason im not using it is that it makes copying from terminal impossible

pacman -S without update is safe and will just install a version that was in the repos at the time you last dis an update. stuff gets removed from repos after like a month though..