May I introduce you to the simple life of just using whatever text editor and terminal that comes presintalled on your favoraite distro? It's ridiculous how far this can get you, I've been enjoying gnome text ediotor with gnome terminal.
Not that different, I tried. Animation smoothness is slightly better on gnome, apps startup times were slightly better on KDE this is more of qt6 vs gtk than DE difference.
I think it's the same as executing an executable inside mounted ISO 🏴☠️? which i did sucessfully after giving bottles a filesystem rw permission to /mnt or /media using flatpak permissions manager
Random reads are still slower than sequential in SSD. try torrenting for a year on SSD, then benchmark then defragment then benchmark. it will be very measureable difference. you may need some linux filesystem like XFS as im not sure if there is a way to defrag SSDs in windows.
Why yank a dragon tail ever