Arch: I need reproducible setups. Also bleeding edge is not for me.

I have to give credit to their documentation though!

so what are the reasons why it’s a bad daily driver?

Don’t need to go any further than “default user is root.”

WASD = Path of Vampire Survivors?

It was Arkanoid for me.

Alley Cat, Dukem Nukem 3D, Ultima (4, 5, and 7), Daytona, Day of the Tentacle, Zack McCracken…

Take a machine with Linux preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Yeah, of course.

Take a machine with Windows preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Check the list.

Configure port forwarding for the VM.

Summit. It feels the most like RiF.

In that case gpaste (if you use Gnome). Before that parcellite was my preference, but around the transition to Wayland things broke for me.

Selection buffer.

Unless you mean clipboard manager, in which case it’ll depend on your desktop environment.