Thank you again for the feedback!

Fortnite breaks

Good, probably for the best.

Again, it sounds like you are much more informed about it than me.

It only sounds like I know what I'm doing because I've just been doing base installs in VMs, letting them update, and then checking things like kernel options installed, etc, and comparing what apps are installed in some distros and left out of others from the main applications menu, then putting it in a spreadsheet so I can see what's going on. You have way more practical experience than I do. I haven't even tried any of these on actual hardware yet.

And as I was figuring that out at the Debian command line, I was just adding it all to a text file so I wouldn't have to track down that exact info again, and then saved it as a script for automation.

If you want to see that install script, I put it here:

https://github.com/mateomaui/DebianInstall/blob/main/debian-install-3-apps-or-no-nvidia.sh

Has a commented summary of what it does at the beginning. Probably contains a lot of things you don't care about, some are only in there for science. (I was adding most of the Ubuntu Studio package, for instance.) You mentioned a number of things you have installed that aren't in there yet. I haven't even tried nVidia drivers yet since it's all been in VMs, that's in a separate file for later. But you should be able to load Debian 12.2 in a VM and run this script, and it should install almost everything listed in there without a hitch. (There's an occasional thing that requires downloading a certain version, and I don't think it can be selected automatically. Like having to manually get the exact version of VirtualBox to download the right version toolset for it. I mention in the summary and comments where it happens.)

If you (or anyone) wants to contribute changes to that install script, feel free, I'm just working it out.