The Spanning Tree protocol is for Loop avoidance. If there is a loop a broadcast could cause a storm easily.
As long as you do no wire up parallel cables between switches or connect the last one in a row to a first one etc. there should not be problems with spanning tree.
I would not mix up brands to avoid spanning tree issues from the different brands.

I use(d) linksys managed switches and broadcast storms never happened.

Also end devices should not participate in stp.

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