For camp cooking, I’ve tried propane, alcohol, heat tabs, plain old wood, you name it. Best all around is white gas, I think, as long as your fuel bottles don’t leak. I have an old Coleman Peak One that still works great.
I inherited a really old 2-burner Coleman stove, but I need to clean it up and get it working. I remember my dad cooking on that stove when I was little, so it’s at least 60 years old.
For light, there are lots of good LED lights now with long battery life, so I don’t take along a gas lantern. I use the light mostly for reading anyway, and a headlamp for walking around at night if there’s not enough moonlight.
I'm going to spring a few bucks for a pump kit and generators before I go camping this year. It's been collecting dust for a few years while I was messing with propane. No rust at all and I have certainly not babied it any.
If you can find it, try trioxane fuel tabs. Not messy like Esbit tabs. It's good to have a simple and small backup in case of the unexpected and for heating something in the tent vestibule when hunkered from bad weather. Ebay, Amazon and military surplus stores are places to find trioxane.
I've been thinking of getting a small battery lantern this year mainly for tent use. I've been using the headlamp only for quite a time. I don't want a larger one for general area lighting because I don't want to put that much recharging load on my truck battery as i tend to stay put for awhile when I find a nice place to setup camp. So, the truck is not operating for a number of days at a time.