Interestingly just removing the US location restriction it looks quite different, with KDE being far more frequently searched for than the others at the moment.

Interestingly just removing the US location restriction it looks quite different, with KDE being far more frequently searched for than the others at the moment. Searches for Linux desktop environments look to have reduced a lot in total since 2004, on Google at least. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F037t6,lxde,xfce,kde https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...