It's what I know and love, just Debian, bspwm and startx. Servers and desktop both. I feel somewhat grumpy that I can't run xorg on remote servers, but I made my peace.
Apart from my current complete move to Linux, I'm contemplating setting up a prettier Debian for my folks.
I didn't know this. Would it be possible to run multiple projects as
42yeahsaid above, with kdevelop too?