Comment by lyu07282

> I understand why people don't default to it.

Can you explain why KDE shouldn't be the default?

> The (maybe) rising solution is "build-your-own-desktop" options like

That's not new, people have been doing that with twm, awesomewm, dozens more for over a decade. That's niche though, the majority see Gnome and that's it. They will never even know that there is something else, they probably don't even know that Gnome != Linux.