I appreciate the input, but I also need this to be clear: Above all else, the primary stakeholder will always be me. If you like what I put out there, great, and I welcome suggestions. If you can't get past my decisions, you're free to move on, taking anything you do find useful from my implementation with you.
This will not ever be a minimal distro, but it's also not going to be Ubuntu Studio (at least not out of the box, though I install most of its and KXStudio's packages for my own use on top of my dev stuff).
Dead serious. I'll take an APT collision over an RPM collision any day. The only times in 12 years of Ubuntu (with plenty of other distros as well for the past 17) that I've seen a borked Ubuntu upgrade was from bad use of bad 3rd party repos (or some bad Ubuntu-based distro - Linux Mint included - who didn't properly handle its own repos) or some dummy SysAdmin not understanding breaking changes (e.g. I saw lots of easily fixable apache 2.2-2.4 upgrades). In Fedora and RHEL (and Suse/OpenSuse, and...) on the other hand, I've seen nightmarish failures even with zero third party repos installed. And again, that's not even my primary driver (hardware support). I've seen plenty of models Fedora wouldn't even boot on, let alone support things like WiFi.
Again, I'm the primary stakeholder, and I despise tiling; however, as with most things modern KDE, it's as easy to add as "Get New [Thing]" (with multiple implementations), without giving up the massive usability of a modern and über-configurable UI. And again, others are free to base what I release on some other DE/WM, whether they want to call it a "community spin" or just rebrand completely.
I mean KVM, which is how you really should be running VMs in modern Linux; however, VBox repo will be added by default (you'll have to install it and the addons yourself). For Linux guests, in addition to those options, Docker will be installed and LXC/LXD will be installable.
I agree wholeheartedly on X11. I wish it had some of the benefits of Wayland when it works, but Wayland still has a lot more issues than mere papercuts.
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I appreciate the input, but I also need this to be clear: Above all else, the primary stakeholder will always be me. If you like what I put out there, great, and I welcome suggestions. If you can't get past my decisions, you're free to move on, taking anything you do find useful from my implementation with you.