anamethatisnt

Fedora KDE is my main workstation distro and it's been treating me fine.
I chose between that and opensuse Tumbleweed and ended up trying Fedora for the simple reason of having a larger user base than opensuse.
I'm still curious to try out opensuse tumbleweed but fedora has just kept going and I've felt no need to fix or switch.

Debian is known to be stable as in "staying the same", you won't get any big version updates on the programs in the debian repository, just backported security updates. That ensures that you don't end up with dependency mismatches where different programs want the same library but different versioning.
It also means that as Trixie ages the version you get from the repo will be further and further behind as you will still be running 2025 versions with backported security updates until you upgrade to Debian 14.

By installing random .tarballs and .debs outside the default repository the main advantage of Debian Stable is nulled.
I would actually recommend going all in on flatpaks, appimages and dockers if your goal is to keep the main system stable and lean. You might also wanna look at distrobox for running programs that aren't officially available for your distro.
Another thing too look at is atomic distros, such as Fedora Kinoite https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

Ah, I haven't watched bleach since they ran around in Hueco Mundo. I just pulled the classic trope "Let's create a kid to continue earning money from the franchise" out of my ass.

I mean driving without your safety belt works great until something happens. Doesn't make it a good idea.

He gotta get married or they can't create Lemon Juice the exciting new anime that follows Nigo, son of Ichigo, on his adventures.

Half the speed of USB 3.2 Gen2 is still plenty fast. :)

The Kingston Datatraveler Max will be more than fast enough
https://ssd-tester.com/kingston_datatraveler_max_usb-a_256gb.html
https://www.kingston.com/en/usb-flash-drives/datatraveler-max

If you're unwilling to change software suites thst is gonna be the bigger problem.

If you got one of them new fancy usb drives with proper speeds (f.e Kingston Datatraveler Max) then maybe try installing your favourite distro on it and boot from that?

Ah, I can see the appeal but it's not for me then. :)

What is the gain compared to running something battle tested like zfs or mdraid?

Interesting, these are the only options I get on epic store from Sweden

edit:
As someone who's never touched Fortnite before I didn't find the right place to check. I can pay the exact purchase amount needed when checking out an item.

I've never used it, but bookmarked the github. Cheers. :)