Thanks for all the suggestions!
I have completed steps 1-3 of the 4-step plan in my OP.
At this point I’m planning to follow the advice in the guide posted at
Installing LMDE 6
I think it may also be a good idea to create another partition (I’ll call it “Data” or something similar) where I can put my Timeshift backups, to keep them out of my /home partition (is this necessary?)
Instead of mounting my /home at my existing Win10 F:\home as I indicated, I’ll take Neville’s advice to not do that, and set up a symlink somewhere (my desktop, perhaps) to allow easy access to my documents over on that drive.
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