This brings back memories.

jcd 1.0 for Linux and Mac, and ZoomIt v9.01   Learn about the new jcd tool and the latest updates to ZoomIt   jcd 1.0 for Linux and Mac jcd (jump change directory) is a Sysinternals command-line tool that provides quick directory navigation with substring matching and smart selection for both Linux and macOS.   ZoomIt v9.01 This update to ZoomIt fixes a regression that made the current drawing disappear after snip, reenables mouse click for drawing dots in draw mode, and fixes a bug with consecutive record activations.

Not surprised it worked out for you as I have upgraded from Buster - Bullseye - Bookworm - Trixie - Forky over the past few years on the same old Thinkpad T430. In each case I ran the Testing distro for a couple of years, followed it into Stable, and then after a few weeks, migrated back (forward?) to Testing. There have been a few glitches, mostly with the GNOME desktop Extensions as I don't run Vanilla GNOME. However the complementary LXQt desktop always works.  It isn't a rolling release, but I'm pretty happy about it. This is not a mission critical machine though; for mission critical I'd probably stick with Debian Stable.