if you keep the windows, rufus.ie eliminates all the 'tinkering'. it can do the download, it can modify the installer to bypass hw requirements, it makes the usb. but don't boot that usb for an 'upgrade'--just run the setup off the usb while in win10. as always, backup anything 'important' beforehand.
maybe see if the providers can bump the ram up a bit to get through the trixie installer? 384mb was enough here (i didn't try to install with less), perhaps 512mb in your hosts' environments will be enough.
why I was hitting the memory deadlock on boot, but yours booted OK
i dunno. was your debian-installer running in lowmem mode? did it add extra stuff because of the detected vm environment (i did notice at least one extra thing here for qemu plus the network drivers needed).
this trixie-based dietpi here boots at 192mb allocated to the vm, but panics at 160mb.
the dietpi x64 'installer' iso don't use the debian-installer. they are clonezilla-based, preconfigured to use an included dietpi image, which does a first-run setup after it's 'restored'.
tui installer on netinst iso (13.4) says 320mb is required:
This system does not have enough memory to be supported by this program. At least 320 megabytes of memory are required. If you continue, unpredictable and broken behavior will likely result. You should reboot now and add memory or find some other program to use.
it does allow you to continue anyway, which switches to 'low memory' expert mode install. 320mb also gives this error. 384mb does not, but still enters the special install mode, where i was able to load enough installer components to set up networking to start an install. it did lose part of the display font partway through but it did finish and reboot ok (with ~104mb used). dropped the ram in virt-man to 256mb and it still booted.
edit: i just installed dietpi on this, which basically shreds debian down to the kernel and not much else, and rebuilds it as dietpi. went on without any issues, not even a complaint with 256mb. htop says 65mb used (this, before adding any server 'apps', mind you).. but i might just be able to upgrade a couple dietpi boxes i have that do only have 256mb ram.
the american a&w was part of yum brands until it was divested about 15 years ago.. yum itself was originally formed from the merger of pepsi's spun-off restaurant business and the american a&w's parent.
a&w canada is separate from a&w in the u.s., correct.
unilever (uk) bought the canadian business only of a&w in the 1970s--that's what split the u.s. and canadian parts. some franchisees in canada grouped-together and bought the canadian a&w from unilever in 1995.
exemption won't really matter in the end. for sites and services that 'rely' on these bullshit verifications--linux will be a non-conforming, non-participant. and you won't be able to access those things from linux... not unlike how rooted & 3rd party firmware phones are treated now by many financial and streaming apps.
looks like they shrunk the menu to icons in order to make room for the ad on the same view, not just when you arrow over to the app icons.