Great choice! But as others already have noted; if it will be used for virtualization only, then perhaps distros like Proxmox should suit you better.

This looks kinda cool. Thank you for tagging/pinging me! I'll take a look and perhaps bother you (or others) at a later moment with questions 😅.

Makes a lot of sense.

Thank you so much for chiming in and sharing your knowledge and experiences! Much appreciated!

Thanks a lot for sharing your insights and experiences on this! Kickstart.nvim has surely caught my interest and I would like to play with it to see how much I can make it resemble LunarVim and the others in functionality and if there's anything worthwhile that remains to be missing. If not, then perhaps I'll be relying on Kickstart.nvim instead. Once again; thank you!

With the amount of different distros you've tried (though mostly derivatives of Arch/Debian), I'm actually surprised to see that you haven't used any derivative of Fedora. Is there any reason in particular?

Thanks for mentioning Helix! I've definitely considered Helix. But as 'its Vim implementation' messes the structure of its 'sentences', it seemed somewhat detrimental with respects to improving my Vi(m)-game. Furthermore, I am not confident that it will continue to thrive 20 years down the line; while both Emacs and Vi(m) have already proven with their respective track records how robust their ecosystems are.

It is missing a few features still (e.g.plugins) but I have been using helix for a while and it is really fun.

Which is another concern 😅. For whatever it's worth, I believe Lapce to be more promising.

While great as a last resort, to me this seems overkill. Though, I would love to be wrong on this. Is it even container-friendly?

Not sure which one you're talking about, but there are multiple copr repos that have very up to date packages.

Glad to be of help 💙 ! Feel free to inquire if you so desire 😉 .

And it’ll be segregated from the base system and from other containers, like toolbox installs are?

Exactly. It's even possible to segregate it beyond what Toolbx has been able to do (at least since the last time I checked) in that you can define another folder/directory as your HOME directory within the distrobox.

I likely would have encountered this as I try to take the approach of research, then do.

Props to you mate 👏 ! That's the way 😉 .

This is the first time I’ve ever posted for Linux help/or guidance.

Thankfully the community is very helpful in general, so you're in good company :blush: !

Searching forums has historically lead me to an answer close enough to resolve my not-so unique issue.

Yeah lol, we've all been there 🤣 .

A lot of negatives seem to come up around Oracle and Canonical being involved with SUSE and Ubuntu

Fedora also has connections to Red Hat, so yeah 😅. I didn't even know Oracle had anything going with SUSE before the recent 'alliance' of sorts in reaction to what Red Hat has done recently. Was that what you meant or has SUSE being working with Oracle for a longer time?