[RScholar]

I'm not sure that the criticisms for the article and parent comment are quite so easy to dismiss wholesale, but I do concur that many of them are actually criticisms of the GNOME DE and not so much Linux itself. In my experience as a daily Linux user it was somewhere between 2-3 years ago that KDE Plasma surpassed GNOME as the most productive desktop environment for Linux, and the distance between the two only appears to widening still. I would love to see what impact the simple choice to swap plain Ubuntu for Kubuntu would have had on their conclusions.

[minimaul]

I actually use KDE generally on Linux, I find GNOME very difficult to get along with :)

edit: and desktop distro of choice is generally Arch for me - it's been a long time since I used ubuntu.