You can switcj windows using keyvoard with apps like krunner, rofi, etc. Not exactly what you described/wanted.

You forgot the question part.

Docker, copy-paste yaml definitions and shit are the automated/user-friendly solution. There are projects that provide things that you want, they are either proprietary or cloud-based, or paid.

It is, but nfsv3 is extremely easy to configure. You need to edit 1 line in 1 file and it’s ready to go.

Just normal dnsmasq without fancy web-ui.

nay

rude

why You can create initful container (don’t know if it possible with alpine) and run as many services inside it as you desire. Crons are pretty clunky inside containers and it’s a lot easier to just run them from host using docker/podman container exec, writing containerfiles is pretty easy as well.

Yay, gtk3! /s

What DE or WM (and distro if relevant) do you use for your actual, professional work?

KDE/Arch

Was this a choice by you or pre-selected by the employer? Do they allow you to work on your own device if desired? (Excluding freelancers obv.)

Choice was made by me (everyone except one person at the time was running arch with kde as well 🙃). Yeah, bringing your own device was allowed as long as disk was encrypted.

Do you need to balance stability vs. customisability? Or is that a no-brainer for you? (=“Have you ever had to cancel a meeting because an Arch update broke your screen sharing?”)

No, this never happened to me with work machine, arch is extremely simple to maintain as long as you follow simple procedure of reading news and keeping out-of-repos packages to minimum.

How much time do you find reasonable to put into maintaining/developing your setup?

Maintaining - up to an hour a week. Developing - dunno, I haven’t changed things since kde 5 - 6 transition and it was a small change as well.

Did distro choice (or lack thereof) impact your choices for DE/WM?

Who knows, probably not.

Do you feel like your code editor, language stack, or job profile has an impact on the choices? For example, is your profile very specific (“I go to dailies and turn tickets into code / I work alone for weeks at a time researching stuff”), allowing you to optimise the setup further?

Well, emacs has some impact on my psyche worldview probably. 😄

This shit text was generated by llm, wasn’t it?

I have bambu printer they are good, but my printer stopped printing until I’ve allowed it to phone home for a bit, this repeated twice already.

I’m waiting for one of those right now as well!

Nice, 8/10. Don’t buy bambu lab, they will suck you soul.

Debian for multiple reasons doesn’t even come close.

Big thing that people don’t understand about Arch is that AUR is not part of distribution itself and package recipes there will break and mainteiners will go missing and arch won’t care about them breaking.

Arch is extremely stable if you can read (this is not a joke). As in before doing system upgrade visit news and check if there is a need for manual steps during upgrade, you’llneed ro do something once or twice a year. And you actually need to read wiki and manual pages before doing things you aren’t sure about.

As for manual step-by-step install, you can do it with almost any distro. For example you can partition disk, mount everything and install core packages using dnf --installroot=... from fedora live, same idea with debian based distros.

RHEL because it’s the stable distro, Arch for being best desktop distro, Fedora for building seamless experience and being arch-lite for people that don’t need arch.

Wow, they look old.

Spinning down and up actually kills drives more than constant non-stop work, I have a setup close to yours, it just seeds torrents (linux isos ofc.) 24/7.

Your decision, we have import tax as well starting from 150 euros or something, I’ve just always written 100 or less. With used hw you often don’t get warranty beyound week or 10 days anyway.

Building on a nonserver hw is a good idea. You could look things up at aliexpress, they almost always have free shipping. Alternatively you can buy stuff in US/EU for cheap and use some service for parcel delivery from there (meest/shipito etc.), often they deliver super cheap (like us$10-20 for something that would be two timesmore expensive locally)