Arch is not basically gentoo. Gentoo is about as close as you can get to vanilla Linux while still being a distro. Arch is pretty opinionated about what defaults should run, gentoo is explicitly flexible. Also the compiling on gentoo thing really needs to stop, there have been binary kernel packages for ages, even before the recent improvement to binary packages. The gentoo installation in someways is easier than the arch installation, as long as you use defaults and customize after first booting up, and if you really want to customize stuff, portage is an absolute beast.

For research studies you are unironically required to write consent forms so a middle schooler can understand them because that’s the average level of comprehension in the USA

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Last I had looked into it, although the standard exists, they use their own servers and are not compatible with other rcs implementations

You need to set the scale in the sddm config file. I had the same issue where Kde properly set the theme but not the scaling. Here is a guide from the arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Enable_HiDPI

To find your screen dpi I think there is something in KDE display settings.

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