During my distro hopping phase of 2011, I tried out a distro called IP Fire. It wiped out my whole drive on boot.
I still have that laptop, hoping one day I'll retrieve that data.
That is a shitty design and for an outfit a big as Microsoft, I feel that it is intentional
Kind of interested in this too. I just started redeveloping a php site in codeigniter bringing it from version 2 to 4 and when I first attempted this a year ago, it didn't seem that neovim support wasn't very good for php.. I could be mis-remembering. I keep a nice setup with neovim and tmux which also works great in an i3 environment.
I've basically been just using a basic neovim setup for now (haven't even setup the language servers yet) while wrestling the app back up to speed. But with a neotree and multiple tmux windows for commands, it's still been a pretty fluid.