- Use at least devuan chimera (better daedalus) for a fresh installation.
Bullseye is dead and gone by now. Nativecam needs bullseye, linuxcnc does not - pick your poision. - Deselect any DE that the installer wants to install (XFCE/KDE). That is: no DE and no Xorg in the tasksel. You'll need to install xorg manually if it's not pulled in by tde-desktop. - Use PBS repository for TDE.
And when TDE is up and running, take notes what you install/uninstall/configure.
Nik
I hesitate to move up to daedalus, but I suppose that's not impossible. I do have other flash drives, so I could try one of those images. It could be that those "things to come" are already doing well in a more current system.
And here I just got out of beowulf and imagined that I had chimaera working pretty well.
Bill