So there’s not a full distro built around it, or even a full desktop environment, but you should check out niri. Keyboard focused, infinite scrolling, Wayland tiling window manager.
There is a nixOS flake or it can be installed over Arch, Ubuntu, or whatever else you want.
Do you have your wifi password saved in your KDE wallet?
There is an option to not save your wifi password using the wallet, otherwise you will be prompted at startup as soon as it attempts to connect to wifi.
Maybe a positive side effect will be OS and applications beginning to be more conscious of their RAM consumption. I am absolutely certain that due to the era of cheap memory storage, applications (browsers especially) have gotten insanely bloated.
Keep AI models out of your web browser and core operating system, and maybe 4GB can still cut it.
Active development
Do we really need more than 640k of RAM?
In short, I want Linux to work for me and other technically-minded enthusiasts […] Is this an elitist view? I don’t think so.
Is it elitist to gatekeep Linux for technically minded enthusiasts? Yes.
Especially when they end the article with “I for one hope it never does”. Definition of gatekeeping and toxic elitism.
If you build a house, but hire a guard for the front gate, do you even own the house?!
The good news is that something like this already exists; just goes to show it’s a matter of time before more refined options are developed.
As an aside, there are now plugins for Noctalia Shell, including a pretty good “Keybind Cheatsheet” plugin, which may make it easier to pick up and play with things like niri.