Me, because someone at my work picked it for servers back in the day

Thanks!

For the record, which DE do you run on it? KDE?

Thanks!

Regarding gaming, I had big trouble trying to play some steam games on gnome. After switching to KDE stuff just works.

Also you can’t (feasibly) run Hyprland on Debian stable, nor can you (easily) run GNOME on MX Linux, etc. So there are a few points where distro choice does have an effect. But I think I got the point across enough with the question