You could try Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE). https://projectbluefin.io/ It’s an immutable OS based on Fedora. They have a developer version with certain developer tools pre-installed. The development environment is largely based around containers and virtual environments. eg. Using DevPod to run your software projects within developer containers instead of installing the tools directly on your host operating system.

I haven’t used the Modos Paper Monitor. Not even sure if it’s actually for sale.

You could look at the Dasung Paperlike monitors though. Or the Onyx Boox Mira. They should be much the same (ie. they’re e-ink monitors), though they are quite expensive. They’ve been out for years, so there are plenty of videos, reviews, second hand units, etc. out there.

I have one of the Onyx Boox Mira monitors (the 13" one). It’s a bit small and cost more than I’d like, but it has helped with eye strain as someone who works on a computer all day. Speed isn’t an issue. It’s plenty fast for anything except watching videos or gaming. The main caveat with any e-ink monitor is that it’s black and white, so you’ll need to tweak things on your PC to get a good experience. That usually means putting things in light mode or high contrast mode.

My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer volumes 1 & 2

Story about an adventurer who retires young due to an injury, only to find new meaning in life raising an abandoned child as his own daughter.

I’m liking it so far. It’s a nice heartfelt story, mostly pretty chill. There are some subplots involving demons and politics and such, but a good chunk of the story focuses on the close relationship between the father and daughter.

Hell Mode volumes 1-3

Protagonist is obsessed with difficult video games. He’s reincarnated into another world where he is the only person in “Hell Mode”, whereby it becomes 100x more difficult for him to level up - but in exchange there’s no limit to his growth, and he’s granted the unique class of Summoner.

I put off this series for a while because I figured the protagonist would annoy me. And he does, especially in volume 1 where he keeps poking fun at LN tropes or explaining how his pro gamer skills mean he’s perfectly equipped for a given situation. (And for many other reasons in later volumes)

Still, protagonist aside I am enjoying the series overall. It’s your usual fantasy world of monsters and magic, guilds and classes, a demon lord to defeat, etc. Nothing particularly stand-out, but an enjoyable read nonetheless.

I have a Mac Mini M1 and Asahi Linux works very well on it. Pretty much everything I use already has an aarch64 version. The IDE I was using doesn’t, so I switched to the JetBrains equivalent, which does work on ARM.

The one big letdown is that displayport doesn’t work. Only HDMI does. But going by your other comments you’re using a macbook rather than a mac mini, so that might not matter to you.