Interesting. Please provide empirical evidence indicating that fewer people use KDE now than 10 years ago. Thanks.
> Everyone I know uses Ubuntu/Unity.
> They may not like Unity but KDE4/Plasma is worse.
I'm surprised that people who prefer Ubuntu would dislike a desktop environment that is highly configurable and allows knowledgeable users to take greater control of their computing experience.
> Interesting. Please provide empirical evidence indicating that fewer people use KDE now than 10 years ago. Thanks.
I'm one of the people that moved from KDE to Gnome after the fuck-ups with KDE 4.x. Plasma taskbar became unreadable after a few hours use and they kept blaming nvidia drivers when in fact plasma had a pixmap leak. I moved on and never looked back.
I would be interested in empirical evidence of the contrary too.
It seems likely that the percentage of linux users using KDE has shrank, while probably the total number went up, but I'd be very curious to get hard data.