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Citation very much needed
Hardly, but I'm guessing you're thinking of reliability instead. Not really surprising when it's so stripped down that vanilla GNOME is pretty much unusable. When you extend it, in order to get a proper DE, that goes right out the window.
That fact makes it especially funny that vanilla GNOME is by far the fattest DE around. How it manages to use up more resources than KDE is beyond me.
Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora use it as the default and they are very big distros. Idk if it's enough but that's what I know.
Idk. KDE was unstable for me and it always has bugs after major releases. They should test things better.
Personal opinion.
Deepin.
You have a point here. Qt is better in terms of efficiency afaik and performance is extremely important for an OS component. But hey at least it's getting better over time.
I mean, that's pretty irrelevant. If you were for example at least comparing the downloads of fedora Vs spins, that would be a beginning of something.
In case it wasn't obvious: stability is not reliability
So does GNOME, especially when you have a lot of extensions
KDE is pretty crap in both regards
Is that why every distro comes with vanilla GNOME? Oh wait...
Meanwhile over the years KDE got lighter than GNOME while constantly piling on features.
This is turning into a meaningless argument now. I don't want to continue.
It can happen when you have to develop all your technology on your own instead of relying on the work of a hundred-million dollar company that does the heavy lifting for you.