On 08/08/2014 08:31, Michael Gilbert wrote:
Here's a really interesting view showing the downward trend starting somewhere in April [0]. Note that the xfce trend was consistently growing prior to and past January (when the default was changed), but slowed a lot in April. At the same time, gnome and base-files started losing users.
Around the same period, Mate desktop started to become quite complete in Debian and easier to install by users.
Cesare.