Debian Popularity Contest can tell you a few things... Just over half of those participating have installed Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon https://qa.debian.org/popcon-gr

Debian Popularity Contest can tell you a few things... Just over half of those participating have installed Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%2C+gnome-panel%2C+cinnamon%2C+xfce4-panel%2C+kde-workspace-bin&show_installed=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2015-01-01&to_date=2015-06-14&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%... And it looks as if about a quarter totally are using Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon regularity (rest could be switched off of course!) https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%2C+gnome-panel%2C+cinnamon%2C+xfce4-panel%2C+kde-workspace-bin&show_vote=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2015-01-01&to_date=2015-06-14&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%... Popcon statistics are notoriously hard to interpret though so a large pinch of salt needed. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_popcon_problem/ https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_popcon_problem/