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Schrödinger’s cat was fictional, I don’t see your point

I have a very similar use case to you, and when I built my PC I just never installed Windows on it. Linux is a great development environment (imo strictly superior to Windows but ymmv), and gaming is almost flawless with Proton. Only problems with that has been from the immature RX 9070 XT drivers, so not too bad.

Depending on what you program with I’d highly recommend exclusively using a Linux VM for it. Then you can fully switch once you’re comfortable working out the kinks.

Someone’s made a comparison of a few ROMs here.

Personally, I’d recommend GrapheneOS like the other commenters have here, but do your own research!

I think so, and it might even be a feature of the upstream Microsoft OSS Pyright, so even that version should(?) have those features available

BasedPyright should have you covered on the Python end, the downside is you also need to install the PyPi package.

Have used it and it’s excellent, even has additional features over Pylance

It has been a while since I’ve used it, but when I did it felt sluggish and missed some ads. It’s probably the only choice if you’re looking for something free though (besides 1blocker, haven’t tried that one)

Wipr 2 is a great paid ad blocker. Unfortunately most iOS blockers don’t work too well beyond this one and AdGuard (and I haven’t had the greatest experience with the latter either)

You may want to check out this thread from GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114235396540176085 They are technically competing, but their points about lack of support and slow update speeds are still valid.