I forgot one essential tool, where I need a recommendation for: spotlight. I use it to switch quickly between applications or to folders. Keyboard shortcut, first letter of the application name and enter… I know there are solutions, but I only heard from Ubuntu, which I don’t want. Anything simple and fast you can recommend?
Thank you everyone for all your suggestions! I’ll quickly try to summarize them for myself. So what you suggest is:
Operating Systems:
Tiling Window Manager:
Recomended to use something based on wayland.
Status Bar:
Package Managers:
Packages:
At the moment I am trying to avoid anything where RedHat is involved. Not because of the recent controversy, but simply IBM is known to kill their software solutions on a whim. (although i still use ansible), so Fedora is unfortunately out (again, no judging on how great it is). I’ve been quite interested in EndevourOS, so that might be fun to try out. Debian for the desktop probably not right now. I’m running it on servers for stability, but for a desktop environment, i prefer having more recent packages (e.g. neovim). The “sales pitch” for Mint sounded pretty interesting as well. However i’ll give NixOs a try first, simply because it was mentioned very often, same with sway.
Based on this i’ll try out these combinations first:
If this does not satisfy, i’ll look into endevourOS and mint, but that might require some Ansible I assume.
Thank you very much!
That looks promising, especially since my current status bar is also just a collection of shell scripts, so that might be easier to switch