LinuxSBC

Of what? A lack of Internet-connected devices? Probably. The universe? Probably not.

A mirror? Light won't reflect off of nothing. The closest you'll get is gravitational lensing, but that requires about a galaxy's worth of mass to make any noticeable difference.

But that needs air. There's no air in space.

Can't you carry their phone?

Correct, but new users don't want to need the command line for something as simple as installing packages.

I used to have an older HP LaserJet, which was really good. Their more recent printers just keep getting worse, and I feel like they're coasting on their reputation. Brother laser printers are what I've found to be the best modern printers.

As well as running on all distros, it also provides other benefits:

• You can run modern software on old/stable distros
• Dependencies being (mostly) included in the package means that different applications can more easily have different versions of dependencies
• Finicky packages are more stable for that same reason
• Distro maintainers don't need to package as many applications (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/46ZZ6GZ2W3G4OJYX3BIWTAW75H37TVW6/), and application maintainers don't need to worry about multiple distros and versions of dependencies

However, some applications don't work as well because of the sandbox, but I think this will change with the rising popularity of Flatpak, as more developers will use portals instead of direct access. Also, there are some bugs and missing features, like how heavy use of the org.freedesktop.Flatpak portal for dbus causes a memory leak (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/issues/51), but it's overall pretty good. Most applications I use are Flatpaks.

Do you know what a VPN is?

I'd recommend Fedora, but the suggestion of EndeavorOS is also good.

Dual-boot, and if anything is missing, boot back into Windows to do that while you work on figuring out how to do it on Linux. There might be something to do what you're asking, but I find it unlikely because Windows and Linux are very different internally.

That's not really possible. With such a wide-ranging standard as USB-C, the cable needs to report what it can support. Without E-marker chips, for example, there would be three possible results: no cable can charge quickly, every cable is thick, short, and expensive, or cables catch on fire frequently. Cheap cables that don't support all of the extra features are just cables, but the good ones need to let the computer know what they are capable of.

iPhones.