I’ve bought several Pine products over the years, and they’re all on a shelf gathering dust. If you like writing software to make a cost-engineered piece of hardware with basically no useful software at all work as you might expect an actual product you paid for from a shop, they’re great.
If you’re expecting a useful out of box experience, or even a useful experience after hours of hacking and tuning, they are not for you.
Given I can have four Gtk apps not in FlatPaks all have different title bars in GNOME proper, I don’t think this will ever work properly.
It’s boring and predictable, which is precisely what I want from a distribution. It also benefits from not being a desktop OS, or a server OS, or an embedded OS, it’s all of those: learning Debian is useful even if you hate it and don’t run it personally because you will encounter it somewhere.
You have swap, which is pointless in this day and age, and will just burn a hole in the flash and delay the OOM killer doing its work. Look at ntfsresize to shrink that Windows partition down to the minimum. Then maybe image the partitions and obliterate them from the SSD. Use LVM instead to give yourself future flexibility. 1TB NVMe SSDs are so cheap these days they might as well put them in boxes of cereal.
Does CrossOver Office support a version of Excel which ticks your boxes? Are you in a position at your workplace to move them off Excel? I honestly have never found an organisation where they were using it for what it was meant for, often being used in place of proper tools - databases, issue management systems, requirements tracking, etc - where the better tool would be better and cheaper.
But, like JIRA, the people who make decisions only know one tool, and that tool is a hammer.