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create some dotfiles, ansible playbooks and go nuts with it.
my current setup is arch+niri. but I have used hyprland and sway/swayfx.
here are my dotfiles
https://codeberg.org/Disco-Robot/dotfiles
I ought to update them though, so some things might brake if you intend to adapt them.
but yeah I would recommended you to check unixporn and see any desktop environment or windown manager that fits your fancy (if you wanna deploy fleets in your company don't go full hackerman take into account usability).
Then grab the dotfiles if avaible RTFM and try to create your configs, sync with git and create a playbook that clones the repo, installs the packages and symlinks configs into .config.
if you are new I think you can't go wrong with KDE and Gnome and it's extension suite, else if you prefer WMs like hyprland, you have hyprland itself, niri which I love aswell and heard great things about magoWM although seems a bit hard to configure.
with that base the rest is lego in my setup I use fuzzel as the run menu but you also have rofi or ulauncher if it's still around, for the bar I use waybar, the powermenu I use a fork of wlogout ... you get it :).
Thanks for the links and advice! I'll take a look at those dotfiles for sure.