Here’s a prediction: not even fedora will drop it by 2027.

Wayland still doesn’t work for a lot of people, and the ecosystem is nowhere near mature enough. I doubt enterprise distros will consider dropping xorg until their users can actually work on Wayland.

IMO too much “Tutorial”, not enough Review. For example:

The spectrwm workflow is unique. It took me awhile to become acquainted with the standard flow and gain comfort in using it. I did have to bend, fold, and spindle the environment a bit

You haven’t written a single word on how it’s different from any tiling manager, nor what and why you changed.

Generally the article feels like the first comment in unixporn, where you list out your relevant dotfiles. The only extra information is that you like it, and a list of dependencies for your config.

Oh no, a wm might die in a few decades! Anyways…

Tumbleweed is recommended often here.

I occasionally try out Opensuse since like 2007, but I always find the alternatives better. Why Tumbleweed over Arch, why Leap over Fedora/Debian, why suse over RHEL?

Is any popular stable distro free from corporate influence aside from Debian?

You never saw an IRC chatroom archive?

If you’re running unstable system packages, immutability won’t really save your stability.

So don’t complicate it, and just use Debian with nix and home-manager. That way you have a stable base, and you can create a list of bleeding edge packages that should be installed. In any case it should be essentially only docker + whatever can’t be dockerised.

AFAIK no distro forces you to reboot, but they all require it for some updates to take effect. You can’t reload the kernel while the system is running.

Fedora just makes that clearer to the user by only installing those updates when they’re going to be active - after a reboot. I think it also blocks new system updates until the current set is completely finished.

You can disable offline updates in the system settings, but I think they’re a good idea, especially for the average user.