Wasn't there a version of ed in DOS at one point? Or am I mis remembering? That could still lurk somewhere in windows' maze of directories somewhere...
But who's making money? All the AI corps are losing billions, only the hardware vendors are making bank.Makers of AI lose money and users of AI probably also lose since all they get is shit output that requires more work.
So, a file server, mostly. A laptop is fairly inadequate for that, but will work for small loads. There are specialist distributions for that purpose, but you seem to want something more "generic". You have a choice of trendy (what the forums like), or industry standard what'susedon real life servers) basically.
That's my experience of a couple months with it as well.
Went back to my usual OpenSuSE or Fedora.