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>software manager
gnome software
>updater
apt, unattended-upgrades
>screenshot utility
gnome-shell, gnome-screenshot
>file renamer
nautilus
>usb burner/formatter
gnome-disks
>mint themes
Adwaita is already perfect
>Debian as a desktop OS used to be alright
It has literally never been better
>but then they started including bloated and insane software in their defaults
Such as?
>Tell me why dont they just ship the latest cinnamon in their repo's like 6.0
Because that's not how Stable works. But Trixie has 6.4.10.
>with just file roller, gnome calculator and maybe feh and mpv as the defaults
>Why does there need to be a bunch of useless shit they throw in
Because Debian is a general purpose OS, not your personal custom distro. But literally all those titles are in Debian repos.
>pair it with a GUI appstore and flatpaks
Again, gnome-software. And following instructions on Flathub is extremely straightforward: copy-paste 3 commands and reboot.
https://flathub.org/setup/Debian