Sad Katie noises.

Is it really most popular?

It's not more stable than plasma surely, at least when user does any customization.

Simplicity is questionable, unless simple means 'unlearn everything and do it our way'.

Gnome always wins on my computers

yea, gnome is "more popular". doesn't mean it's "better", just that it's the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.

Heh. My Linux started with Ubuntu like many others. I appreciated GNOME.

Then I got confident enough to distro hop and with that cam DE hop. Can't deny KCD is just so much better for the kind of user I am.

It's just kinda nice having your computer do what you want it to do, ya know?

For a long time it was. KDE kind of exploded themselves back around version 4. GNOME made huge inroads while the KDE Dev team's got their shit sorted. Main DE to the flagship general user distribution etc. It's just a fact. And not gonna lie I still have fond memories of GNOME 2.

But the KDE team really put their time in and cooked. It isn't perfect. But the over all polish shows. Not to mention its been snowballing lately. I have my whole family on plasma 6 right now. It's familiar as it needs to be, stable and mostly intuitive. It's just so good. In fact my only gripe right now is a niche Wayland issue and not DE related.

The GNOME workflow works for me. I tried KDE recently and found I kept trying to make it like GNOME and kept failing. I do miss OpenBox, though... I'm tempted to try some Quick Shell set up using labwc.

I....

Well....

Damn. Cannot argue with that logic ROFL

This fanart looks problematic.

Mhm yeah Kingdom Come Deliverance sure is a nice game series.

In case you're wondering, there are 31 explicit entries that has Konqi tag on e621.

I actually kind of hate both.

KDE is an unopinionated Windows clone built of a shitty proprietary base. Stuff mostly works well though, I can’t deny that. It just looks and feels like crap.

GNOME development is stupid. They have a binding for every language you can imagine, but the widgets leave you up shit creek and Gnome thinks it’s smarter than you. Gnome looks pretty good, but after trying in earnest I don’t want to work with it.

We all know that the real MVP is Xenia

Konklusion was right there.

Meh, plasma was stable enough by 4.4 (when I've switched from gnome 2), there were some problems, but gnome 3 released about that time wasn't any better.
I'm not sure about popularity of gnome, it was repeated a lot but personally I've met one person to this day that used vanilla gnome 3/4/5/50 not representative of course but it's just weird that supposedly everyone is running it yet among the category of people that linux is most popular with it doesn't show.

Why?

I was going to mention that there's probably a lot of people who don't know what e621 is, but then I remembered what community I was in.

Age

Because both characters look wildly like sexualized children.

What's your poison?

This must be about Gnome 2.8 when Gnome indeed was by far the most popular desktop environment on Linux.
And then Gnome 2.8 was deprecated and no longer maintained, and for years after Gnome Shell was complete and utter shit.
IMO it still is, because they have changed fundamentals like how virtual desktops work, that disrupt my workflow.

I agree Gnome is more elegant, but that's irrelevant when key fundamentals simply don't work anymore.

So to get the desktop I like to actually use, I use KDE instead.

Edit: Final release was 2.32 as u/esc correctly writes below.

lol. Yeeeeah. But I'm gonna leave that one. For Skalitz.

Gnome lost a lot of popularity with Gnome shell, and for good reason. Gnome made the same mistake Microsoft did with Windows 8, which was also universally hated. By the same mistake I mean they changed EVERYTHING!

I kame here to say this!

WTF is KCD?

Currently I use KDE plasma but I’d like to migrate off.

Last version of gnome 2 was 2.32, I think, not 2.8.

Sure. But the first few releases unfortunately weren't. And you gotta be conscious of projecting your experiences onto others. I mean I sure do lol. Techy people don't mind experimenting and putting in a bit of work. But the normie's do. For nearly a decade Ubuntu and GNOME was what was recommended/used.

Oh sure, there's kubuntu which isn't their flagship or similarly supported. So you would run into edge cases and lack of polish on the distro side. There was so much inertia for a while most major distros flagship was GNOME out of the box. Even if KDE, Mate, Budgie, or Cinnamon were avalible from repos or community maintained forks. Your vanilla user was always going to go with the defaults.

I didn't like it and haven't touched gnome in years and Ubuntu even longer. But I'm definitely not a Normy.

You are right, I just remember it as using 2.8 for an extended period of time. But looking it up, 2.8 was a milestone from 2004, and 2.32 was the final release.

I switched to Linux as my main OS in 2005. So I probably started on 2.8.

I'm feeling quite hungry

Do the results for foot_fetish apply to gnome?

"most popular"

"stable"

LOL

It's the gross stomach noise that does it for me. Like Henry shapeshifts his stomach directly against both eardrums.

I get it, bro. You're a bitch that can't even function on a meal every 48 hrs. Help yourself to this massive pot of available stew but stop at half full and refuse to eat more.

You know what? Maybe I like GNOME after all.

I just randomly tried KDE recently and made the swap from Linux Mint to Kubuntu a week ago. Definitely agree on the polish factor, everything just feels great with KDE and I've been pretty happy

Yah, the only one that isn't creepy is the top left.

KDE*

But if you'd like to learn more about our illegitimate Lord and Saviour, Henry, I'd be glad to talk. May I come in?

I really don't want online accounts integration in my DE though. I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.

Stop yanking my pizzle

I guess if I had to choose, I'd pick a sexualized girl wiþ a tail, þan a sexualized lizard wiþ human legs.

Where is þe "most popular" coming from? Is anyone able to measure þat? I also question þe implication þat Gnome is more stable; I use neiþer on desktop, but KDE on my wife's desktop is far more stable þan Gnome on my Linux phone. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from þat because... Linux phone. But still.

I like Gnome. I like KDE, too. I actually think they're both great, in their own ways, but I personally prefer Gnome.

yea, gnome is “more popular”. doesn’t mean it’s “better”, just that it’s the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.

But not SteamOS which has the numbers on its side. Not that Gnome is unpopular but Steam Deck single-handedly pulled in millions of users who at least occasionally switch from game mode to desktop mode (=Plasma) to install emulators and stuff.

I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.

In theory the one place where you can enter your Nextcloud or whatever credentials and syncing for calendar, mails, file storage ect. happens automatically everywhere after confirming which services should connect.

It's not my personal must have feature but when it works, it's alright.

Both of them have this

I'm not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

I used open box for a bit after crunchbang came out, it worked fine and was kinda cool but I still prefer an entire DE.

I’m not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

Of course not, if you phrase it like that. According to your phrasing non-desktop container setups also count but they don't.

Distributions like Ubuntu also ship Plasma. The preconfigured disk image is called Kubuntu but that's still Ubuntu and counts as that in Steam's surveys which I consider the most reliable source of what actual GUI Linux users actually use.

Proprietary base?

You're not only the one who kame according to those numbers.

Couple things there are many computer users that don't play games like for example me.

Enterprise Linux is not the same as a container and Gnome is flagship for all three of those enterprise flavors.

Well, you are wrong. You prefer KDE you just don't know it yet