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I'm still not a Linux expert myself, but I'm gonna take a shot at answering this question as I understand it so maybe others can help correct me. I use Arch (btw) but the ideas should still apply, You'll want to use the Debian packages for anything foundational to your system. These packages are tested to work with the distro and can be considered a part of it, just ones you haven't installed yet. This would be important for something like `bluez` bluetooth (or whatever Debian uses). Aside from the space issues you mentioned, this is less important for heavy apps that sit on top of everything else, like a game. Especially if you're on a slower moving distro like Debian this may be ideal for more updated versions. Usually I go: distro repo (HIGH PREFERENCE), AUR (not really an option for you), Flatpak, AppImage, whatever other jank manual install is available (but only as a last resort if I really need the thing and there's no other option, I like a tidy system). I find this offers the best stability and as someone who obsessively updates their system every day because they're a bored tech nerd, I've had better stability on 3 years of Arch than I have with Windows (but that's a low bar)