Yes! That's exactly what I'm picturing. Running i3wm/sway (depending if I get X11 or Wayland) with N number of monitors laid out like I want.
Then the actual development happens on my laptop or maybe the cloud with something like codespaces or whatever the competitors are. I don't really know much about that space. In my head, I can imagine it being amazing.
On the other hand, I can't see myself ever using the AVP, because I'm sure Apple would lock it down too much. Right now, I'm pretty sure my girlfriends iPad pro would be good enough to replace my laptop. All the hardware is there, it even has usbc so theoretically I could hook up an external monitor and my keyboard. But the software is just too locked down to be of any use. I'm fairly confident that will be the case with the AVP as well (it definitely is today).
Then the actual development happens on my laptop or maybe the cloud with something like codespaces or whatever the competitors are. I don't really know much about that space. In my head, I can imagine it being amazing.
On the other hand, I can't see myself ever using the AVP, because I'm sure Apple would lock it down too much. Right now, I'm pretty sure my girlfriends iPad pro would be good enough to replace my laptop. All the hardware is there, it even has usbc so theoretically I could hook up an external monitor and my keyboard. But the software is just too locked down to be of any use. I'm fairly confident that will be the case with the AVP as well (it definitely is today).