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This week in KDE Plasma: 6.2 has been released!
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Its been a long time since I used gnome 3 so I can't really testify to its stability. However, modern gnome is very good about make sure they give the gnome experience. Like it or hate it gnome only ships things they think will be reasonable to use. They also don't ship anything that is not heavily validated.
The downside with gnome is that sometimes there is a breakdown between the devs and the users. The devs use it a certain way and assume everyone else does the same. This can lead to missing functionality that almost everyone reenables with extensions.
Linux as a ecosystem is made by humans at the end of the day and humans are funny about there beliefs. I think a mix of the gnome and KDE style would be great. Cosmic follows the KDE development style as far as I can tell and Xfce4 just doesn't have a lot of man power.
I really think Cosmic is the ideal desktop, at least from the idea what they want to do. But I don't want rely on it as its not proven yet (I mean with first release). Maybe in a few years from now.
I have my gripes with Gnome, so won't go into it now. Not very healthy doing that. :D I do think if you use Gnome as intended and without (or almost none) extensions, and use Gnome Apps for the most part, and don't need to customize each and every corner, AND embrace the Gnome way of doing things, then I agree it is probably the best DE. But these are lot of ifs and buts. I don't know if most people fall into this category, I certainly don't.
And on top of it is how Gnome... well I said I won't go into it now. :D I'm sure you are familiar with all of this.