I really liked this distro when I tried it when 3 first released. I’m on Debian stable gnome and may just switch over to get gnome 51 because gnome 48 is feeling a little too old at this point.

I already use flatpaks for everything so that won’t change much at all anyway.

I’m excited, I’m installing LMDE today and looking forward to getting these tools soon.

Man we’re the same person lol I too use geany for basically everything and tried out Kate because it felt more feature complete but it just isn’t. There is nothing I can do on Kate that I can’t do in Geany that is relevant to me. Mostly Lua programming and markdown editing.

I’d say just make a theme that fits the KDE style and use some breeze icons in the editor to make it feel more like it belongs and use what works and is comfortable.

I still use gnome and so I made a gnome builder editor theme and made the whole editor look like gnome builder and it works wonderfully. I bet the same is possible for kde.