&gt; IMHO, the GNOME and Unity desktops are mature enough to handle 90% of users&#x27; needs, the only exception is gaming but that gap is also rapidly getting filled.<p>This is not really true. For example, high-dpi is still a complete crapshoot, font rendering is often bad bordering on terrible. Unity itself is a usability disaster that hides some of an applications most important elements (menu bar) most of the time. Network manager (Ubuntu) breaks frequently. I could go on...