Pingu was actually a great show tbh

I’d say VSCodium, Kate or Vim. VSCodium if you want something like VSCode, Kate for just an absolutely amazing IDE or Vim if you want to try something new.

Fedora KDE. It’s easy to setup, modern, customizable and fast. Second would be Mint, it’s only flaws is that it ships an older kernel (might be a pain) and uses X11 (insecure).

I’m using rofi-wayland.

I second this. uBlue is amazing if you want something that just works and doesn’t break.

The menu is rofi-wayland. The customization is just one of these with slightly tweaked colors (I’m too lazy to do it myself lol)

just works

After compiling and configuring for a few hours sure

Thank you! (-:

Alpine Linux. It’s pretty lightweight (uses ~250MiB on idle with sway), is easy to install and is super stable. My only criticism is that there is quite a lot of software not available in the repos, but this is mainly fixed by flatpaks.