The bookmarks are already vertically aligned in the side bar.

You need Tab Stash in your life.

Tab Stash is great, yes. That’s the answer.

You just said it yourself. I do like to tinker. I can install a distro in 15 minutes. I can fix my system. I do make backups. Why would I need or want an atomic distro again?

“rough start” is putting it mildly. 🤭

KDE.

My advice: try them all, then decide. They are all free. Most offer live systems. It will only cost you time, which will be well spent learning.

tl;dr: Break things and have fun.