Mycroft on Windows

I’m glad you finally got it!

It seems it does the right way, one swap partition and one for the entire system. That should be the best approach for someone coming from Windows (C:\ and pagefile.sys or the newer swapfile.sys) . But in Linux, of course, there are another configurations, like creating a partition for user files (/home) if you want in a future reinstall without losing all the user configuration, or creating a dedicated partition in (/var) because this directory tends to grow a lot and you can avoid running out of space. But sincerely, those add complexity and you need to rummage with filesystems, so keeping simplification in mind, the best your most users is to have all the available data in / and a swap space to avoid kernel panics if the system reaches the max memory.

Regarding the size of a Debian installation, well, it will depend of the stuff installed on it, on my job I setup all the VMs with 32 GB disks, but Debian itself occupy from 1.6 GB to 3 GB. Those are obviously headless servers without a desktop. With a desktop should increase the size from 200 MB to 4 GB, depending on the desktop and features.