https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk

oldies goldies hardware
ditch rotating disks, boot with sd card, run on M.2 nvme pcie, enjoy cheap, big RAM ?

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/
335 MB debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso

dd if=...iso of=/dev/<usb key>

boot, run installer, reboot

apt install firefox-esr mousepad openbox vim-gtk3 xinit xterm

$ lsblk 
NAME        FSTYPE FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                               
`-sda1      ext2    857.9M     5% /boot # SD card
nvme0n1                           
`-nvme0n1p1 ext4    214.9G     1% /     # M.2

$ cat /etc/fstab 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may be used with UUID=
#
# <file system>                            <mount> <type>  <options>                               <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=13301d8e-0967-4b59-9f57-facdf5eda84e  /       ext4    discard,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro  0  1
# /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=a0e8615d-ffb1-422c-bb2b-bc8ce12aa44b  /boot   ext2    noatime,nodiratime         
# ( installer usb key was /dev/sda during install )

###############

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

apt update

apt install autoconf automake autotools-dev build-essential debhelper \
  dev-scripts devscripts dh-make fakeroot fdupes firefox-esr gcc gmrun \
  htop lftp make memtest86+ menu menu-xdg mlocate netcat nmap \
  obmenu openbox pbuilder pcmanfm rsync smartmontools sysstat \
  ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-mscorefonts-installer vim vim-gtk3 x11-apps \
  xfonts-75dpi xinit xterm xtermset xutils

updatedb

update-alternatives --config editor

visudo