Interesting and thanks for posting. I hope you're open to comments from a not very technical user.
- GTK Music player. I love Deadbeef. I think I first used it from siduction repo but it doesn't seem to be updated there. Currently using 0.6.2-2 installed with the deb from their Sourceforge page. Zero issues.
- Releases. As my current install of December KDE since just after release is running nicely, I'm not impatient for a new release. Obviously it would be great for new installations.
- Next. Keen to preview Plasma 5 and Lxqt. The Razor-qt iso from earlier this year showed great promise so hopefully Lxqt will blossom too.
And thanks to all the devs for your amazing work!