I know Gnome is in your less important list, but Wayland is in your important list, so I’ll recommend KDE Neon. It’s Ubuntu without snaps and moronic auto updates, so it really just feels like a more desktop-ready Debian

Idk if this has been proven, but I’m certain that the current desktop versions of Office apps are just Electron-style wrappers for the web versions. I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago and have found the web apps to be perfectly sufficient

Arch

• Being 64-bit doesn’t make you special, my Nintendo 64 is 27 yrs old and it’s 64-bit

• Being bleeding edge doesn’t make you special, all I have to do is sit on a nail and now I’m bleeding edge too

• Rolling releases don’t make you special, anyone can have those if they take a shit on a steep slope

/s (was hoping we’d be able to leave this behind on reddit, but alas, people’s sense of humor…)