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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

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.

esseph 1y ago
It's the default DE for RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and many others.
shmerl 1y ago
KDE is commonly more popular among gamers it seems.
forvelin 1y ago
who does even compete with Gnome ? it is the de facto default desktop in almost all notable distros. it just works, though it is far less customizable compared to KDE, it is far more stable -still only compared to KDE..
- flohofwoe 1y ago
  > it is far more stable -still only compared to KDE Citation needed ;) I haven't seen any 'instability' in KDE since I switched from GNOME, and performance/snappiness of KDE is actually better.
  - DoctorOW 1y ago
    Performance/stability on KDE used to be a lot worse IMO. Your opinion on KDE depends on when you last checked.
    - LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
      Does this matter as of now?
- wizee 1y ago
  KDE 6 is quite stable in my experience and faster/more efficient than Gnome too.
- tpxl 1y ago
  > it just works 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.
  - vbezhenar 1y ago
    Your use-cases are hardly average. I don't think I ever encountered 150MB image or folder with 300 videos. I don't even use nautilus outside of the very niche cases. I'm using Chromium or Terminal or VScode or Idea 99% of time. My GNOME is just a shell switching windows. Whatever file managers, image viewers or other stuff bundled with GNOME matters little for me, I can easily replace them. I don't even understand the concept of DE, this is just wasted work to maintain those apps. They even develop their own browser...
    - bmn__ 1y ago
      A computer should have no problems at all dealing with a 150MB image or 300 videos. I'm invoking cmuratori here. What do you think you are getting out of running defense for objectively broken/unusable software?
criticalfault 1y ago
Every time there is an interview of some startup and they show the offices with a glimpse of a monitor, it's always Ubuntu. Running gnome. 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.
- jeroenhd 1y ago
  KDE is quite popular for personal computers I believe. It's got things like HDR support much earlier than Gnome did. 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.
  - hnlmorg 1y ago
    Things might have changed recently (though screenshots suggest otherwise) but Suse has always preferred KDE.

esseph 1y ago

It's the default DE for RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and many others.

shmerl 1y ago

KDE is commonly more popular among gamers it seems.

forvelin 1y ago

who does even compete with Gnome ? it is the de facto default desktop in almost all notable distros. it just works, though it is far less customizable compared to KDE, it is far more stable -still only compared to KDE..

flohofwoe 1y ago
> it is far more stable -still only compared to KDE Citation needed ;) I haven't seen any 'instability' in KDE since I switched from GNOME, and performance/snappiness of KDE is actually better.
- DoctorOW 1y ago
  Performance/stability on KDE used to be a lot worse IMO. Your opinion on KDE depends on when you last checked.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
    Does this matter as of now?
wizee 1y ago
KDE 6 is quite stable in my experience and faster/more efficient than Gnome too.
tpxl 1y ago
> it just works 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.
- vbezhenar 1y ago
  Your use-cases are hardly average. I don't think I ever encountered 150MB image or folder with 300 videos. I don't even use nautilus outside of the very niche cases. I'm using Chromium or Terminal or VScode or Idea 99% of time. My GNOME is just a shell switching windows. Whatever file managers, image viewers or other stuff bundled with GNOME matters little for me, I can easily replace them. I don't even understand the concept of DE, this is just wasted work to maintain those apps. They even develop their own browser...
  - bmn__ 1y ago
    A computer should have no problems at all dealing with a 150MB image or 300 videos. I'm invoking cmuratori here. What do you think you are getting out of running defense for objectively broken/unusable software?

criticalfault 1y ago

Every time there is an interview of some startup and they show the offices with a glimpse of a monitor, it's always Ubuntu. Running gnome. 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.

jeroenhd 1y ago
KDE is quite popular for personal computers I believe. It's got things like HDR support much earlier than Gnome did. 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.
- hnlmorg 1y ago
  Things might have changed recently (though screenshots suggest otherwise) but Suse has always preferred KDE.