It's not just GNU/Linux what people show in unixporn: some rice removed, some rice BSD, and some even rice Android. What do they have in common? They're all based on UNIX.
st. It just works. I'm always opening and closing terminals, and 90% of the stuff I use have's a TUI. st launches before I can even notice, under 4GB of RAM, and the entire install is less than a MiB.
I think they're talking about the tandem of tiling and workspaces, as usually you can customize your tiling per-workspace. Some TWMs have tags instead of workspaces, making it even better.
I'm a Spanish speaker, and what I did was using sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and assigned the right Alt key as the "compose" key: after pressing it I can press two characters I want to combine and it writes them out to the text output. I.e: to type á is Compose+'+a, to type ç is Compose+;+a, and so. That way I can use my US layout without losing special characters of ANY language
I'm not asking for a distro made specifically for servers. I'm asking for a distro that fits what I specified in the post body. Most people here said Debian, and I'm probably going with that as it's my daily driver anyways.
I haven't tried Photoshop, but all the Windows apps I've used in Linux (mostly games) run seamlessly. Probably you can find a YouTube tutorial for configuring wine for your needs
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