[jeroenhd]

The stock OS comes with some weird stuff preconfigured (no encryption, weird partition layout, etc.) so it depends on how you use it. For example, you'll need to mount the system partition r/w for things like kernel updates and I wouldn't dare enable AUR on an OS explicitly designed to be updated through a third party update system without having a recovery disk handy at all times. This limitation has some impact (i.e. installing DisplayLink drivers can be a challenge) but it's still Arch but fancy.

Hook it up to a dock and it should work and perform like a laptop. With a decent CPU, quick SSD and 16GB of RAM you should be able to do certain types of dev work quite comfortably if you hook up a display or two, a mouse and a keyboard.

The thing just runs Flatpak so stuff like VS Code and Jetbrains products will run perfectly fine.