Would be nice if you could post these console outputs in code tags, refer to the button labelled code in rectangular brackets above the editor window. Its better readable.

What I see is a discrepancy between the System Info and the real kernel version. I see you are on Excalibur, and you use xlibre instead of xorg.
dmesg says: "Optional firmware "amdgpu/raven_ip_discovery.bin" was not found" which I would read as not required but stops with error. In any case its not part of the amdgpu firmware package which I also have installed.

Also looked at the latest firmware package on kernel.org, there it is included. So it was added sometime between the Excalibur version and June this year. What you may try is to install the firmware-amd-graphics from backports, if there is any.

I can't recall any network failure during installations that was not due to operator error, i.e. mistyping IP numbers or similar. Anyhow, two nics is an unusual setup and maybe this has led to problems? I have only dealt with one nic on many installations.

AFAIK there is no way to skip modules for known nics, unlike this topic that you may only get ext2 and no ext3/4 when jumping over the "load extra modules" in expert mode.

sysvinit just does its job. I have been using OpenRC when I started with Devuan on ASCII. I have moved back to sysvinit nowadays on new installations since I did not see any advantages as a user from using OpenRC.

ntp sets the HW clock. The rest is job of the operating system.

In Linux its standard to set the HW re. the bios clock to UTC. During installation you configure your location and timezone, and the OS then generates the local time from that.

Windows per default is running on local time, i.e. the bios clock is set to local time. This creates 2h time shifts on a Linux/Windows dual boot system. The best fix is to set Windows to UTC.

Don't forget, kernel sizes are growing too. What worked some releases ago must no more work with todays kernels.

Strange. Have you ticked the format option in the partitioner? I am without any clue what maybe wrong, at least without a better idea about what you have entered. Can you post your settings line by line please? When exactly does this message appear? When leaving the partitioner?

What kind of HW are we talking about? Brand of the laptop and the NVME would be interesting.

I haven't used the 6.1.1 netinstall myself yet, maybe I give it a try in a VM when I have a bit of time.

UEFI boards do that. If you boot the one without a note/prefix/postfix saying its efi or uefi then you boot the installer in legacy mode. And if you have a brand new laptop it will be uefi only.

Make sure you boot the install stick in UEFI mode.

The easiest way is to use the installer during partitioning, and to write a new GPT to the drive. That makes sure the old stuff is deleted. There is nothing in the bios that could do that.

Then you first create a 1024MiB large partition, assign it to be ESP, and the rest is done by the installer.

Next you create a whatever you like large partition for /, ext4 as file system and mount point /.

Take a read on the webpage I already mentioned, there is a installtion instruction with pictures. But as far as I know it just describes the auto mode. Manual partitioning isn't mentioned in there. Its a bit arkward.

Well, it depends on the kernel you use. No issue with 6.12, starts with 6.13 to I think 6.18 (not 100% sure, I am still on 6.12 and there it still works). Then its fixed again.

My dear friends, I think your are on the wrong track. I am not talking about the file system trash can but the one built in into Evolution. Its a folder like the Inbox, Archive, Send Messages, .... Similar to the setup in Thunderbird and other mail clients. Was my description that bad? In any case, thank your for your feedback.

I am aware of the built in functions "Save/Restore Evolution Data" or how its called in the English menu (I am from Germany so my menu is in German). Have used it many times to transport the Evolution settings and mails to a new release or a different computer over the years. And I am running a backup of my data with rsync normally. Please don't worry, I am no beginner.

I am sorry, I do not mean duplicates. I am talking about something like the weekly mailing from one of my email providers who spams his customers with a "magazine" I do filter out to the trash can without looking at it. Repeating messages of similar structure and slightly differing content. Or shippig information from ... whatever.

As of today I have not found a way to partially clean out am single one of the more than 10000 deleted mails in the Evolution trash can like I could do with Outlook. I miss this function.

I guess the problem is that you are mixing several approaches, and they don't go together very well. I have taken my setup from here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45747#p45747. This is the initial Daedalus approach. The same thread then talks about different approaches and daemons ... never fully understood the differences, and never changed my setup. It works 18 months now. 

I have simply upgraded my Daedalus installation to Excalibur, ignored the release notes, and the old stuff simply works. Also on my travelling laptop.

You followed a different guide, and I guess you have to undo that stuff first of all. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

I got the same snippet in front of my .xsessionrc:

if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
    . ~/.profile
fi

But according to my notes this was because of some conf change for gnupg. I don't think this hurts.

I would remove or comment out the addition from the release note in .profile. Give it a try.