Back on Linux after a 2 year hiatus. Feels good to be home again.
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We’ll see how much of a mistake this laptop was besides the keyboard, but it was the next step in exiting Apple’s Garden.
First time CachyOS/Arch userBTW
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That fastfetch looks great!
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(totally didn’t realize @R-Savage wasn’t referring to mine… Imma go now)
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My mobile workstation, used alternately with the non-mobile 
workstation posted somewhere way above.
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The new Minisforum MS-03.
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To piggyback what @ThatGuyB said I regularly float windows in sway/i3, often to make them sticky windows so they show up on every workspace. You can also just default certain apps to floating in your config. Personally I find this more than enough.
Now, I had an idea and apparently was right - you can set specific workspaces to floating with e.g. for_window [workspace="5"] floating enable. The only functionally different thing from Cosmic, not being familiar with Cosmic, is that I assume it has a taskbar of some sort and thus is easier to navigate multiple layers of windows, whereas in i3/sway if you hide a window behind another you won’t be able to access it without moving windows (but you can hack up a swaymsg command and bind it to a key to rotate focus between windows…).
In any case, weren’t Fluxbox/Openbox marketed as supporting both? Unless you literally mean DE (but mentioning Sway in the same sentence kind of muddles that conclusion…).
Closer to on-topic, I have to say I am starting to appreciate the CachyOS users more now that Om○rchy is a thing. 
Cachyos is a good distribution and I think there somethings in that all distros should copy cough cough there installer .
Omarchy is what happens when no one tells you no for any creative idea you have and doesn’t think about the useability at all
i’m not a fan of keyboard centric distro in general, so I feel like my opinions to corrupted to count.
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Omgarchy is trash disguised as a Linux distro, get rekt.
EOS - Endeavour - Great installer and about as vanilla arch without free-basing arch yourself 
. Great distro I use on my servers, Cachy is just too good on a desktop, that kernel and those v3/v4 repos…
I’ve got a decade+ “arch install” repo to bootstrap my Arch desktops for me, partly using Ansible, predating Cachy pretty much. So I’ve never had an interest in using derivatives.
And now there is an official archinstall so I ended up archiving that repo 2 years ago. 
I’m pretty sure you meant this as ‘Omg-arch-y’ but I immediately saw ‘Om-garch-y’. If you know Spanish, you’ll likely see where that is going…
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Here is mine
Daily driven Fedora for 9 years. Now i am on Artix, wich is Arch btw, but witout using systemd. I opted in for using Artix and the openrc init system. No longer do i have to deal with systemd-resolved… thank god for that.
The whole system is AMD, since it out of the box AMD support.
Also, since i like it silent, i build a full custom loop using acrylic 16odm tubing, a temp sensors, 3x 360 rads, and 12x noctua fans.
Almost dead silent when gaming haha.
I keep the desktop as vannila as possible, but i have quite a lot of specialized tweaks under the hood.
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Why do I keep buying these risc-v boards? The first problem is that they usually boot from an sd card, so I can’t even boot them until after I mess around for 2 hours with the sd card, only to realize that my sd card writer is bad. Then I have to write the image with the old, slow sd card writer, which takes 10x longer, but actually works.
Then it finally boots and it’s a mix of software, repositories, and OSes. That’s even before we get to trying to get a more recent kernel to build and boot or try to install the OS onto faster media, if it can even see the NVME drive. And who can afford a spare NVME drive right now? I have some older, cheaper B+M key drives, but of course, these boutique SBCs and CoMs only work with the pricier M key drives. I’m sure we’ll start to see 16GB NVME drives that are built from reclaimed controllers and flash at some point.
I think the only redeeming feature is that most of these boards have a serial port, and I do love me some RS-232 (or TIA/EIA-232 for the hipsters).
10/10 would recommend, it’s a great hobby project!
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