One thing that would probably make this adoption fodder for the custom Arch Linux & r/LinuxPorn communities is if it were just a desktop that side scrolled with

One thing that would probably make this adoption fodder for the custom Arch Linux & r/LinuxPorn communities is if it were just a desktop that side scrolled with parallax. Those folks seem to strongly reward anything even remotely 8-bit. I get that drops the mouse-driven parallax, just an idea.