

The only substance I can see to it is when do you draw the line from a modified Debian (or Ubuntu) setup to a “new” distro?
If you start with an Ubuntu image its technically possible to ship of Theseus it right into an Arch image, but you could argue the default config of both is best representative of the actual distro maintainers goal (even if irrelevant to power users).
(Saying this all as a NixOS user with a system that hardly even looks like Linux sometimes so maybe I’m a bit biased on how blurry all the lines are lmao)



You can mount /var and /tmp to the ssd, lot of tutorials on doing this for Pis SD cards if your googling.