> Glancing at the new Debian 12 screenshots, I realised that in the past years most major desktop OSes transitioned to a macOS-esque (middle-aligned, bottom) la

> Glancing at the new Debian 12 screenshots, I realised that in the past years most major desktop OSes transitioned to a macOS-esque (middle-aligned, bottom) large icon taskbar. Why? That's a misinformed take, Gnome is not the only desktop environment available on Debian, it just happen to be listed first in the installer, it's a DE agnostic OS If you look at the most popular linux distro, the 3 most popular ones (according to distrowatch) uses XFCE as their default DE https://distrowatch.com/ https://distrowatch.com/, wich provide a traditional labeled task bar by default https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment And if you look at what people use in the wild, you'll notice that they move away from the setup you describe: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/