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Viktor Jančík

Awesome resource! Thanks for putting this together.

I went down this rabbit hole myself two weeks ago. Two days spent tinkering with Arch + i3, ended up ditching it for Manjaro i3 and springboarding from there. Saved me a lot of blood and tears for essentially all I really wanted from the basic setup.

It did not work out for me however, because I have a Dell XPS 15 with an external graphics card that I actually need (for work), and there's terrible support for internal/external GPU switching on Linux.
So I can either have the GPU or I can have my battery (Nouveau / Nvidia drivers halve my battery as they run the GPU all the time).

So right now, I'm exploring WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and with the release of WSL 2, and the expanding capabilities for Remote development in VSCode, I have to say it's working out so far.
Still no GPU bridge of course, but at least it's out of the box functionality with my graphical applications (Firefox, WebGL) running optimized in Windows.

It's worth checking out if you ever get bored of your current setup. :)