USB sticks can be hit or miss. I tend to avoid all things TeamGroup since their SSD's were dropping like flies at work.

I have had the best luck with MicroCenter branded USB thumbdrives......You don't have to live near a MicroCenter either I ordered them from Amazon. Cool thing is they also have a LED that blinks when their is r/w going on.

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No harm in testing. I usually get something exotic like that sorted out in a VM first then goto HW.

Kinda goes against the Debian/Devuan Stable philosophy but good luck. You would probobly have an easier time in Sid/Ceres.

Keep in mind this is the very first release and even they say its Beta out of caution because stuff will break with a hard fork like this. I would suggest you give them a couple months to get settled in and by then somebody will probobly get a repo spun up etc.

Most of the accessibility stuff is waaaaay behind. Screen readers, on screen keyboards, etc. That said I have been using Wayland on my gaming machine because.....shiny.

Waydroid via Weston is the way I do that stuff.

As a lifelong AMD guy I am going to go against the grain here a little bit and suggest a 12th-14th gen Intel on sale at Newegg with a B series motherboard(be sure to get a chip with an iGPU). Darn near every time I try to run Consumer level Ryzen hardware as a server I get bit in the A__ by some ram or motherboard quirk.

All that aside KEEP YOUR SOFTWARE SEPARATE FROM YOUR DATA. Have your OS on a separate drive or raid array than your data. JMHO I would setup timeshift on your OS drive and at least a RAID1 on your data possibly a RAID10 but that might be overkill. And then have some old POS machine in the corner with a RAID1 or just 2 drives doing nightly RSYNC backups from the main server.

What I do at work is I have a spare drive in our server getting RSYNCED 5 days worth of our critical data to the secondary drive, I then have that POS machine in the corner with 2 drives making 2 copies (no need for raid) and that machine RSYNCs nightly up to RSYNC.net

Getting ready to swap my main rig......been using the Lutris Flatpak on Mint until now.

The only way I could see Debian using this is for support of legacy hardware etc.

I have been ditching systemd to get the RH out of my life and now I am currently working on debuntuing my life thanks to their uutils direction I just found out about.

Eventually after IBM/RH, Canonical, and Suse complete the entire corporate takeover of Linux its just going to be all of us sitting around here with Stallman beards having a good time.