I think it's pretty simple: Gnome has the momentum and seems relatively a stable-ish (well, stable for Linux) choice that to a business probably seems like a sa

I think it's pretty simple: Gnome has the momentum and seems relatively a stable-ish (well, stable for Linux) choice that to a business probably seems like a safe bet. As someone who's been reluctantly using Gnome 3.x as a primary DE for years now, I think you're completely off-base and that Gnome seems to care about anything but the desktop (see swipe up to login on a desktop, for an obvious example) It would be great to see something better, and more community oriented, displace Gnome but I don't see it happening any time soon. A combination of lack of resources and inability of the alternatives to get their acts together seems to all but guarantee Gnome's dominance for the foreseeable future. Seriously, they need to pool resources, come up with a coherent plan and execute. How many desktop environment forks exist now fighting for the same 5-10% of users? Sure, choice is good but if they lack stability, features, polish, etc for years on end... well, Gnome wins by default.