Slack was my second distro, in early 2000, you wouldn’t believe how many times I had to try to get the install working and how many times I saw this screen in the image, I was like 13, had no internet, only time and passion, I got it booting after like a week of trial and errors

Try Kate

I wouldn’t classify debian sid as bleeding edge, it is still on plasma 5.27 for example or firefox esr 115.9. I would try it first before saying certain things, or classifying it. There is a middle ground between Archlinux and Debian stable, and sid I think is a great compromise

Debian sid