alt Hacker NewsI do not know since when (I am using it for couple of years), but in Arch, it is very simple to have two X sessions (by using "log out" > "switch user") for two different accounts, so switching it's just a Control-Alt-F7 away.
Additionally, one can make the main user part of the group of the development user, so that you can read/write easy in the development user account and it is even easier to share stuff.
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graemep • today at 9:45 AM
Multiple X sessions has been possible for decades. I think its possible with Wayland too.
You can also start applications as another user so you do not even need multiple sessions.
There are quite a lot of privilege escalation attacks so I am not sure this is sufficiently solid.
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It doesn't really matter which distribution you use, you can use approximately all the software with any distribution.
They mostly differ a bit in how they are configured and what package manager they use and how they roll out updates. (And in what's installed by default.)