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Can I ask what it adds onto base debian?
It doesn't have systemd, that seem to be important for some people
Oh baby, come to mama! You have my full attention.
The Xfce setup looks nice out of the box.
From what i've read it seems to be easier to install than Debian (never tried myself) and it has a lot of nice tools to maintain your system.
There are ISO of debian with calamares installer available on debian website. The real difficulty is to find them.
Debian is really easy to install now. It used to be much harder back in the day.