obmenu-generator is really great and one of few non-standard tools I add to a an installation.

Head_on_a_Stick provides a deb-package https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=34723#p34723 (thanks for that)

Assuming daedalus with backports:

# apt install  -t daedalus-backports  lazarus-ide 

should have done the trick.

Not sure whether the following is connected... .
Today, I had a uniq experience with 'LibreOfiice Calc' on a remote mashine. It killed the whole vnc-server-session when opening a document - three times in a row, then I gave up.
server: debian bookworm, running tightvncserver and libreoffice calc
client: devuan excalibur, running xtightvncviewer

At least there are similarities.
And the supplied document from github does not freeze my desktop.

devuan / debian stable usually stays as it is after release.
This package would be a good candidate for daedalus-backports.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep backports
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main   #contrib non-free non-free-firmware
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -t daedalus-backports install yt-dlp

Hi,

adding i386 architecture is recommended or mandatory for wine installations.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Personal experiences:
I had pointless trys using WINEARCH=win[32,64] and wine installtions without i386 architecture. You can do that, but expect pain.
Instead: May the wine warper script decide such things - as long as it works.

Does 'Installing cups by installing another distribution' count?
Anyway. Your choice.

Great advice, thanks a lot! Totally forgot about liquorix.

My shiny new computer does not suffer on windows, but the old one has a (more or less) big data partition formated with ntfs. For the fist time the transfer speed is in a reasonable dimension. I'm quite happy with that.

No news on the USB-stick front so far.

Thanks for the replies.

The stick is for a TV set-top-box.
4 GB file size is easy to hit. Sadly, ext[3,4] file systems are not recognised.
Tried exfat: File size is good, but the file system is not recognised either.

Found some information on Paragon's "ntfs3" driver, e.g. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-enable-ntfs3/86049/4

$ cat /boot/config-6.9.12-amd64 | grep -i ntfs3
# CONFIG_NTFS3_FS is not set

Means recompiling the kernel to enable it.

The desktop nice.
Last resort of Microsoft Windows.

Interesting command lines for rsync, indeed.
I'll stick to cat (or dd) a partition and resize2fs the file system to the target partition's size.

What???
You want
EITHER grow a file system to the full partition's size (see #2)
OR recover "something" from the drive.

cp simply over-writes. I would start looking for a back-up.
ddrescue is useful, when dd aborts with an error, e.g. when the drive is physically damaged.
testdisk (as far as I remember) is looking for known file headers (like png/jpg images, zip/gz archives, etc) on the raw disk and trys to recover them.

Even if you would provide all information to the accident in detail, I doubt someone could help. Sorry.

Adding the daedalus-backports repository would be a convenient way to have a quite current kernel (6.9).

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep backports
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

apt install -t daedalus-backports linux-image-amd64

Beside the kernel, firmware can be a major problem especially on new notebooks. There are no backports releases by now, e.g. https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … *&x=submit . I would go for the newest packages for all build-in components.