Both have stayed pretty consistent over the last decade from what I've seen. I used LXDE until they removed the tree panel in the file manager, many years ago.

Both have stayed pretty consistent over the last decade from what I've seen. I used LXDE until they removed the tree panel in the file manager, many years ago. After having left KDE because another update that killed my workflow and reading that GNOME was not any better for this matter, it made me abandon Linux desktop completely, after two years of exclusive use. I wonder if they brought the tree back, but... too late.