maybe not dwl

really bad advice

1. you can make nvidia work just fine, considering most linux users are software developers, you might even be better off for cuda support
2. theming will not break your system
3. dual booting is not an issue when using multiple storage media
4. arch is one of the most widely used distros for good reason. you can make any mainstream distro work. universal blue/nix also is perfectly usable.
5. no, there are more options, sway, niri, i3, river, awesome, dwl, dwm, bspwm, cinnamon, xfce, lxqt are all perfectly usable, window managers are great for a software development workflow and often more stable than DEs
6. if you choose a sensible distro like fedora, arch, opensuse, etc. this doesn’t apply at all, this should only be a consideration for immutable distros

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no, it’s not

Fortunately, you are wrong, there are BSP layouts for river.

river, its by far the nicest to configure and use

ThinkPad x1 yoga

all reasonably popular engines are cross platform

no, it doesn’t

its really bad compared to real tiling

no, the point of Window managers is not to be minimalistic

anyrun

please just use spaces, it makes everything easier

no, modal text editors are just nicer to use

It’s extremely easy to get started

stop using nano, if you want a non modal editor use vim -y

not really, gnu is still a big professional project

Raygui, fltk, GTK. Qt if you’re working in C++

in most cases you really shouldn’t

Arch is pretty simple. Anyone with an intermediate skill level could use it pretty easily, I reckon.