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if a combination of 2 programmes work, then pdf arranger and libreoffice draw / xournalpp / okular. both foss and free (As in beer). for stuff like rearranging pages, changing sizes or orientation, cropping or even signing, the former can do fairly easily. for highlight, redact, bookmark, signing, latter work (they are a slighlty powerful viwers essentially, whereas libreoffice draw can edit much like adobe assuming fonts are availables).
it would make the workflow harder, but this is roughly what i use. I do not have to do pdf manipulation much, mostly read, so i have a simpler viewer (zathura in my case), which you can replace with lets say okular and get most of the latter set of features. and whenever you have to edit, you can make some shortcut (keyboard) to open current file in pdf arranger and there do former set of operations.
if you are okay with webapp, then i think xodo should work (they have a desktop electron client as well, but i think they only give windows download options). there you get all features, but would likely have to buy licenses. do not know where they are from, but i think they maybe are from china.
As for distro, and if you are tech support, see if you could go with a immutable distro, as that may reduce your work. (i do not want to start a distro war here so not giving any recommendation).