Was it really worth all the considerable effort that went into developing KDE, GNOME, and the other less well known desktops environments?
Considering that Linux desktop usage has grown very slowly despite all the desktop environments becoming reasonably useable, it does seem likely that it is not the DE that is the problem. No matter how good the Linux desktop becomes, they are never going to be as familiar as Windows.
There are probably more people using Linux on mobile devices (without even realizing it) than there are Linux desktop users. Which only strengthens the question: why waste valuable developer resources on desktop environments?
Since I don't use any desktop environment, you may take my opinion with a liberal amount of salt.
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