AI Attempts to Guess the Popularity of Linux DEs: Gnome, KDE, Hyprland, and More

I asked an AI to estimate the usage of Linux text, and it was interesting to see how each model produced quite different estimates. I know this isn’t a straightforward analysis, but it’s fascinating to observe how these figures can vary so much.

Desktop Environment ChatGPT (%) Grok (%) Perplexity (%)

GNOME	30–40%	20.00%	~35‑40%
KDE	20–30%	25.00%	~20‑25%
Xfce	8–12%	15.00%	~15‑20%
Cinnamon	5–10%	10.00%	~10‑15%
i3	2–5%	5.00%	~5‑7%
hyprland (growing)	1–4%	10.00%	<1‑2%

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