My work revolves around taking tons of data with a python script, then processing it and generating graphs in another script. E.g. I measure y as I modify v, p, s, and f. And then at each v, p, and s, I look at y vs. f and extract some value k, then look at k vs s at each v, p and extract a j, then plot j vs v and p.

How would labplot fit into this? I’ve been thinking about what the next change in my plotting would be, and I’ve considered either adding on-click functionality to my existing script so I can click a v, p, j point to see the k vs s graph that gave that j; or possibly using some library that gives some web-browser based control of graphing. But if labplot seems well suited to this I can also add it into the contenders

That’s basically spyder

I second this. The initial setup is the hard part. Give it a couple days. The arch wiki is the best resource in the whole Linux ecosystem in my opinion. If that’s the long manual you were looking at for installing steam, know that 90% of it is info on strange edge cases and all a typical user will need to do is sudo pacman -Syu then sudo pacman -S steam (I forgot you have to enable the multilib repository if you haven’t already. You seem smart, you’ll find the info in the wiki)

A couple times a year or so something will break after an update. When that happens

1. Google if anyone else has posted your exact problem
2. See if chatgpt knows anything
3. Humbly post in the arch user forum

One of those will solve it. Good luck!

If you want a wealth of information on what makes a good router/WAP, read https://www.wiisfi.com/. Or skip to the Recommendations section for hardware picks. I do recommend cross referencing for an OpenWRT compatible router

Just use systemd-sudo to replace network manager with systemd-networking