No they don't?

Can't speak for the person you're responding to, but honestly no, not really? Like, of course it's a big deal that this stuff happens, but it's so common that every individual story just seems obvious. It should def be recorded when we find those instances if not just for proof, but I personally just don't care about seeing it my news. Especially when it seems pretty off topic for the technology sub.

I mean, I definitely consider my patched DWM as part of my dotfiles, just one that happens to be compiled. And if I can 1-up your pedantry, mine is in .local so it is literally in my "dot"files :P.

I don't think I'd necessarily agree with that, but just to note, op is recommending the BSDs, not Linux.

I can't make any predictions, but I might see a few problems with moving to debian. Flatpaks are a pretty good replacement for lots of apps, but especially with stuff like drivers for Nvidia cards (and supporting Nvidia so well is something Pop!_OS seems to like), you just can't get all the way with the debian repos.

I think if they were to move, imo it would be more realistic to use something like Fedora as a base.

Hell yea! I've used PopOS for a couple years now and it's pretty fantastic. Being able to enable/disable it on the fly is super great, and you still have all the conveniences of a full DE.

Wooowww, nice work, that's gorgeous.

I really like this idea, I think it would significantly contribute to making it a more cohesive system for less technical users.