In college right now 2yr computer science, anything Microsoft is a pain to work offline. I miss the onedrive sync in windows i just use syncthing for that now .

I use onlyoffice since it has one of the best Microsoft office compatibility though I submit my obsidian export as a pdf for my assignments or records.

If you really need ms office or for group projects and you have an o365 account, just use the web version for it.

There is blendOS which is an arch based immutable distro similar to Vanilla OS with different DE options

It is possible to use official vs code repository. Just you would have to add it manually.

No, it doesn’t use snaps for the packages.

Not it’s fine , trying to edit the PDFs may cause the problem.

If the same void package exists in the nix os repo then sure. You can’t use a void package in nix os is the thing I would like to point out other than using distrobox.

I wouldn’t compare void and nix since both of them follow very different approaches. Void is more like a traditional distro while nixos on the other hand uses configurations for setup.

And no you can’t use void on nix os as said above. Hannah Montana linux and kubuntu uses Ubuntu as the base that’s what he meant.

It’s fine for the most part. Just keyboard shortcuts won’t work in default and theming is slightly difficult. You have add extensions to gnome to increase functionality.

Blend is based of arch not Debian.

I said for xbps does not have parallel download support.

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Went with Arch and Fedora simply for the parallel downloading. I tried xbps , the only turn off for me was the fact that feature was missing otherwise void is best to stick with.

In panel settings , switch off the automatic size for icons that would fix it for you.

Some which I can think out of my head are : Joplin Trillium Logseq Notion Obsidian Anytype

If you need to draw, I would look into notion and obsidian.

Well you can use the web version.

Void linux with its xbps package manager might match with your requirements.

Then solus with its eopkg package manager which I might wait like next year to try it.

Icon theme : Papirus Theme: Catppuccin Macchiato Cursor: Catppuccin Dark

As you can see I enjoy the catppuccin colorscheme for its variety.

Well there is clipgrab if you want a GUI downloader.

There is a youtube channel LinuxScoop he shows many customisations try them if you like it.

Debian does ship nano not vim.