Do i simply install on top of a Debian server OS? Which .iso do I download/install?
I think even XFCE is rather bloated and have Debian XFCE on 2 other drives already, so will test out Debian stable nonfree with xfwm standalone. I have the names of the top 5 packages to add and will worry about the rest later. I am in no hurry to get this perfect yet. But, I would like to install the fundamentals tomorrow.
There is no specific server edition for Debian. The standard iso will prompt you to install a desktop environment, if you don’t tick any boxes you’ll setup a CLI environment, and from there you can setup what you want.