Not sure I understand the reasoning for discontinuing. Google standing in the way? Not enough f-droid users benefiting from it? It didn’t see development cause it was already feature complete?

I had more troubles with Debian than arch. I have some old nvidia stuff and some non-standard sound stuff.

Learning by doing.

Probably running an older nvidia driver. That usually blows up during an update.

Or, you know

$ packagemanagerofchoice firefox

I’m a tea enthusiast as well. I run arch and only have an idea of what I’m doing half the time.