chrony is a possible choice for a ntp daemon. Just install it and you're good to go.

Remarks:
The meta-package ntp (or ntpd) will installs the default time-sync daemon.
I do not know timedatectl. In general, it's a bad idea to install two services for one issue.
In case of a VM: The time comes from the host, so ntp is probably not needed.

(No solution, sorry)
Depending on the time you want to sink in this topic ... something to read.

Detailed information on disk layouts and booting can be found in the install instructions of (e.g.) Archlinux and Gentoo.
Philosophy is: "There is no install program, you do anything by yourself". Instructions and information are corresponding.

"apt pinning" is a possibility. A priority of at least 1001 allows package downgrade.
In your case, It would be pinning the daedalus packages to 1001 and then doing the usual upgrade.
I've done that a few times, it usually just works.

# cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release n=daedalus
Pin-Priority: 1001

# apt update
# apt upgrade
# apt dist-upgrade

Did you skip Chimaera?
dist-upgrade works fine form one version to the next release.

Continuing the migration in a chroot should work. I would do so too.   

Network-manager most likely needs updated configuration after migration (see below).

--
Remembering the migration of my notebook to chimaera:
One thing that happens during migration is: The network-device's name changes (from forgotten) to "wlan0" in case of wifi.
The network-manager's config files were still pointing to the prior device name. This was the reason for "no network connection".
The alternative to reconfigure network-manager was to restore the prior network device names:

# echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=1"' >>/etc/default/grub
# update-grub
# reboot

Using update-grub may or may not be a bad idea in your multi-boot case.

Just thinking: The confirm-paste add-on may have been useful in former times, where "paste something with a newline character" lead to direct execution. But this is not the case anymore; pressing the [ENTER] key seems mandatory in bash.

maybe

$ pstree

gives a hint?

Are there files in "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32" ?
I would proabaly start with a fresh wine setup.

$ mv .wine .wine_old      # backup
$ winecfg

Is the mouse's batterie charged?

Can't remember haveing mouse problems the past decade or so. Would you mind sharing the manufacturer?

2nd search hit was: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1479606 … untu-23-04
pipewire is a good option for bluetooth, and the answer is for debian 12. Probably worth a try.

The nvme might be physically an older M.2 ssd with sata interface.

The point of zerofree (or just doing cat /dev/zero>zero.bin; rm zero.bin) is to reduce the size of a packed image file created with
dd or cat, e.g. cat /dev/sdXn | gzip >sdXn.img.gz.

When creating a partition image file as sparse file, these sectors are omitted anyway.