Good point, I’ll try that. I’m still not a big zorin fan though.

Primarily disk space.

Celeron processor 16/4 gb ram.

This sounds like the way to go. What would be the least painful process for going from zorin to debian?

Based on my experience only: Traceroute works, but only if there is SOLID communication over all hops in the path. I can traceroute through known good paths, but anything marginal and it fails.