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Desktop? Debian with GNOME. Laptop? Debian with GNOME. Tablet? Debian with GNOME. Server? Believe it or not, Debian without GNOME.
:s/GNOME/KDE/gOne small change and we could be twins. My Debian server also runs Proxmox though, that's where I distrohop. In VMs.
Okay, I'll bite:
Why GNOME? I personally find it very limiting, especially when attempting a Vanilla GNOME config.
A lot of people seem to feel like this. It's obviously a valid viewpoint. Gnome certainly has some flaws.I think KDE has better technical foundations and is probably much more appealing to Windows refugees.
And it's always fun to customise a window manager setup. I usually have another setup or two for playing around. Currently niri as I got bored with regular tilers.
I always find it a little surprising how much some people dislike gnome. We are all on holiday here and the whole family got up early today and logged into gnome sessions and started recording and editing videos,.composing music and gaming. They don't tell me their desktop sucks like people do online.
Out of curiosity, what music software are you using on Linux? I haven't found a DAW I've liked.
We are just getting into this. One kid has been heavily using lmms the last couple of months. It is very limited but perfect for him composiing game music.
Other family just do basic editing with ardour. We want to level up a bit. Just bought a reaper licence and have been playing with it and a midi controller and some plugins.
Bitwig also looks very nice and seems easy to use.
We are newbs with this stuff. Normally I like to only use free and open source only but both reaper and bitwig feel like pretty good value.
Yes, I understand that GNOME (3+) has a place in Linux/*nix world and that, from a common user's perspective, it might be enough or even more intuitive than Windows and MacOS ever were. Blind hating never helped anyone, especially in FOSS.
For me, as someone outside the common user's realm, the weird aftertaste of internal dev drama and their decisions which features are "needed" and which are not needed (server-side decorations, tray-items, etc.) deter me from using GNOME more than the annual one-month tryout ("Maybe it isn't that limiting to me as I thought?").
I guess average people are not opinionated about desktop environments. they got familiar with one, and it's fine to them, they're not even thinking about trying something else.
Debian is my favorite as well. I prefer KDE, though, because it is pretty. I also don't get the GNOME hate, I just don't love it as much and at this point KDE is way more familiar.
I will never understand people who willingly subject themselves to Debian when there are so many better alternatives
Which tablet do you have?
A Latitude 7210 I got for cheap.