I'd be interested to know if Debian 5 works well on 32 or 64 bit PCs, and if there's an RT option.
The only apps that won't install are Denemo, and Musescore, at the moment. (Denemo can't find my fluidsynth or Sndfile libs which is no doubt user error, and Musescore keeps giving me a T1 key error/RTC timer error, and won't play at all, but it's been doing that on my Linux PPC for a while.)
Thumbs up to the Debian team. Based only on my brief personal observation, i reckon they've done well.
"Out of the box."
Alex.
Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)