I hadn’t expected such a response to my article about choosing the right desktop environment when I was writing it, but as most commenters noted, it was a really quick write-up, a kind of a brainstorming session about desktop environments where I indicated the pros and cons. Well this time, I tried improving it. More info, more research and more work are contained in this post. Enjoy, and favorite it if you like in the case you’re in a dilemma with you Linux install.

We’ll start with the more popular projects.

1. GNOME

You will find GNOME available in most popular distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint. The GNOME project must be doing something right! Choose GNOME if you want a robust, polished, simple and customizable environment. GNOME has everything a standard desktop user would need. I especially like GNOME’s configuration tools and stock apps - simple straight to the point.

If you like innovation though, I don’t believe GNOME is necessarily the way to go: it’s a big project with cool people working on it, but I’m not sure if they already know what the next step is going to be. GNOME still remains a default choice for most people and is the leading desktop environment, which makes getting support easier. There is also a multitude of sites on the Net with themes and add-ons for GNOME.
What I’d suggest is that they build an experimental fork of GNOME for people to try out new things. Stock GNOME became really boring in the past years. We don’t need Cheese, we need something NEW!

2. KDE 4

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