I’m going out on a limb here, and guessing you have a high end video card that is causing probably 99% of your problems, likely an NVidia.
I’m using KDE on MXLinux on a old macbook, and I don’t have these graphical glitches you mention.
OneNote.
That’s really all. OneNote, on a windows tablet or foldable device with a proper stylus is the bee’s knees for knowledge management.
These aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing.
Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.
Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
Zulip has been around for a loooong time. It integrates well with Jitsi, and is fully self-hostable.
I have yet to break anything doing release upgrades on Debian since… 7? Or 6?