I'm not sure if qualifies as big and/or fat, but LinuxQuestions perform an annual poll of their users on all manner of topics [1] including "Desktop Environment

I'm not sure if qualifies as big and/or fat, but LinuxQuestions perform an annual poll of their users on all manner of topics [1] including "Desktop Environment of the Year"[2]. Not sure how representative it is and it's only a few hundred participants, but here are the top 5: 29% - Plasma Desktop (KDE) 26% - Xfce 11% - Cinnamon 10% - GNOME Shell 10% - MATE This (larger) poll over at r/linux[3] puts GNOME Shell in 2nd place: 29% - KDE 21% - GNOME Shell 14% - xfce 12% - i3 [1] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2018-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-award-winners-4175648153/ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2018-... [2] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2018-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-128/desktop-environment-of-the-year-4175645570/ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2018-linuxquestions... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/879ram/poll_which_desktop_environment_do_you_use_on_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/879ram/poll_which_de...