What is Gnomes market share like these days?
It used to be the de facto FOSS desktop in the GNOME 2.x days but things changed with the release of Gnome 3 and I’ve not really noticed Gnome ever bounce back since.
It used to be the de facto FOSS desktop in the GNOME 2.x days but things changed with the release of Gnome 3 and I’ve not really noticed Gnome ever bounce back since.
Also a few people I know, if they used Linux on a desktop it was Ubuntu.
Don't know anyone using KDE, steam deck being the only exception.
So from a personal perspective, if it's Linux on the desktop, it's gnome.
Corporate also seems to like OpenSUSE and RHEL. Universities seem to like Debian. Practically all of them default to Gnome or offer Gnome equivalently.
Even several (relatively) big SteamOS-alikes are using Gnome despite SteamOS itself defaulting to KDE.
it just works, though it is far less customizable compared to KDE, it is far more stable -still only compared to KDE..
For some definition of works, like a folder with 300 videos loading for 15 seconds and image viewer unable to open 150MB images.
I prefer how Gnome works compared to KDE, but I can't get past the ridiculous performance issues.
Citation needed ;) I haven't seen any 'instability' in KDE since I switched from GNOME, and performance/snappiness of KDE is actually better.