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I appreciate the suggestion, but I have a desktop, laptop, and homelab all running Ubuntu atm so I think I would like to stay in the debian ecosystem for now. And while I know its not necessarily distro specific, I do like gnome a fair bit.
You'll be fine on vanilla Debian for basically all these things. If you need newer drivers or a newer version of some program, you can check the Debian backports repo; they recompile stuff from testing for stable. Includes newer kernels and bunch of other stuff. It will only install (and update) stuff you manually install from backports, the rest of the system stays on stable.
If that doesn't cut it, you can always run testing itself. Since packages migrate from unstable to testing (after like two weeks or so) only if they do not have serious bugs and all their dependencies are already met, testing is (basically) never in a broken state. If you put the codename, instead of "testing" in the sources.list, it'll just turn into stable when that's released. The backports are pretty safe also when upgrading, since they're never newer than testing or the next stable.
you might like vanillaos or bazzite. vanillaos is an immutable distro like bazzite but based on debian. makes maintenance easier. i personally prefer bootc compatible distros because it makes distrohopping easier, but immutable distros in general are good for helping users abandon ship if a project becomes problematic.
I'll check it out, thanks!