@peter_mcmahan I'll add to the chorus that Debian is pretty good. I've been running it with KDE/Plasma on a work thinkpad and it's pretty good.
However, I am still running Ubuntu on my personal laptop because Debian 13 doesn't support my drawing tablet. (To be fair Ubuntu 26.04 didn't either and I had to roll back to 25.10 to get it to work with Krita)
Gentoo has declared a complete No AI, stance, but you really need to be willing to a lot of work to get it up and running.