Horse {they/them}

updates that either work 100% or roll back automatically, no more “oops I bricked my system” moments, better security through immutability, and way fewer update headaches.

i have used arch derivatives for 3 years and only fucked my system once, it took less than half an hour to fix so this isn’t particularly compelling for me

chasing the new hotness is not something i do with my daily driver, might check it out on a laptop if i’m bored

Puppy Linux

yeah, basically just running xfce but replacing xfwm4 with i3
i was kinda surprised how well it worked tbh, i had been using i3 on it’s own for like a year before i tried it

fair

xfce+i3 i guess

i3
best tiling on X

you definitely don’t want to pack an OS and WM in your dev environment
anyone who doesn’t already use i3 will be slowed to a crawl until they memorize the keybinds, plus some people just really hate using the keyboard for 90% of navigating, and if they don’t already use fedora will need to figure out where everything is

In my experience older nvidia cards (~5 years old +) work fine, newer ones are very hit-or-miss
Amd cards of any age work pretty much perfectly as far as I can tell

Though if the drivers not being proprietary is a hard line for you then amd is your only option really