One of the few good things that came from the Crowdstrike disaster

You can set specific applications as floating windows in i3 so that they take their original size

You don’t technically need a package manager though. It’s just a convenience layer.

Probably still for some time. I have a laptop with a NVIDIA Optimus 1050ti from 2016 or so and it’s still going strong 8 years later. It starts getting a bit tricky (but not impossible) at 10+ years old cards

dom0 is the administration qube which handles the graphical desktop, i/o and hardware devices. So if you’re installing dodgy software in dom0 you go around a lot of the sandboxing that qubes offers.

I’ve been selfhosting Gitea for years now and it’s great, but I also don’t really collaborate with anyone else so YMMV. Originally I wanted to go with GitLab utb it’s too resource intensive for my use case

This is RedHat Linux 6.1, it was EOL way before RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 came around