Followup: this was very helpful, thank you. As much for the technical content as the inspiration that it could be viable. No, it didn’t really work out for yo

Followup: this was very helpful, thank you. As much for the technical content as the inspiration that it could be viable. No, it didn’t really work out for you. Yes, it’s working out great for me! Konsole with Terminus is an aesthetically pleasing environment in which to work, 8 hours a day. i3 in 4k, even at 30Hz, looks great. Vim renders fast (66-80ms keyboard latency.) eog, evince, and gimp let me fiddle with materials. gnome-screenshot copies to the clipboard for rapidly sharing notes with others, based on what I have on screen. davmail transparently connects dumb IMAP clients to the corporate email, address book, and calendaring systems. I have an XBiff alerting me to incoming Outlook emails! REPL.it is slow in Firefox but fast in Chromium. It’s going to work just fine for managing pupils’ class work. My home directory is encrypted and mounted on login. Mutt and offlineimap let me handle last term’s mail in bulk. Python and git and tmux let me prepare and mark work from the students, or at least they should do come next term. I have all my little tools working to give me an excellent markdown environment for note taking on classes and pupils and meetings. Asciidoctor for the more typographically demanding class materials. Absolutely all of this was a breeze to set up because all of these technologies just work in Raspbian/Debian on armhf. It has, so far, been unbelievably clean and pleasant. I even have LXC working locally, for running Unix and IPv6 experiments with multiple little Alpine “VMs”. χ!