Some of us like to have hardware work. For the rest, Debian will do fine
Just kidding, its all good.
What the man says is pretty much spot on, though .uaerc could be the file name too. I've used both the regular uae and e-uae and they seem to use the same config file.
If you are new to 'nix, hit ctrl+h in your home folder, and it'll show up.